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Given that the government’s new transport plan involves building a metro under O’Connell Street, won’t that mean that all the paving etc. has to be ripped up again in a few years? Or can they tunnel underground without causing too much disruption on land? (The Port Tunnel would suggest otherwise)
Yeah, time certainly has moved on. Like, where the heck are “the 26 counties”? Does PDLL mean the Republic of Ireland?
Trinity’s inclusion on the British long-list is intriguing. The list was produced for the purposes of consultation and debate, and a final list will be published then.
But good to see West Britain being included… 🙂there may well have been, PPDL. But the Hague Convention in question was drawn up in 1951. Maybe it was in response to the destruction done in those cities?
I’m not sure why Ireland hasn’t signed up, though
I think where Brucie got the idea for his article was some coverage in British newspapers of the British government’s plans to draw up a list of buildings protected under the Hague Convention. Basically, you nominate about 50 buildings/monuments of huge importance – in Britain’s case the likes of Stonehenge – and the list is circulated to other signatories of the convention. If there’s a war, they’re not allowed to bomb anything on the list. Serious! Any military commander bombing a building on the list can be done under the Hague Convention for war crimes.
The British short list includes Trinity College Dublin! Ireland isn’t a signatory to the convention, and hence doesn’t have a list, so in theory Newgrange, Trinity, the Custom House etc are all fair game if we get involved in a war.
As I say, this has all been covered in the British newspapers, and prompted Brucie’s inferior follow-up.
Kennys was well over-priced, just like Cathach Books in Duke Street. it was geared towards the gullible American tourist who wanted some early edition Joyce or Heaney. The same books could be had on the internet, from the likes of abebooks, for a fraction of the price.
Why The Irish Times deemed that the closure of this over-hyped institution was worthy of page one treatement is beyond me
Brucie has certainly lost the plot. His ramblings about the Abbey theatre in The Dubliner and the Indo have been incoherent and off the point. I don’t think he interacts with the real world any more. The attack on Bus Aras was mind boggling, and Hawkins House wasn’t even included on Things That Should Be Sacrificed. It was clearly a quick back-of-the-envelope job
No, they are not listed, but you can bet your bottom dollar that some environmental crank is about to start a campaign to keep them. “These are the last of the genuine tenements in Dublin,” he/she will say. “Hundreds of people died of TB and poverty inside these buildings and I think it’s disgraceful the Corpo is proposing to just knock them down and build new ones instead.” 🙁
Yes, fountain was switched off two years ago because the wind was blowing the water all over the place
here’s what i wrote in another thread at that time (i.e. 2003):
The story with the fountain, according to a council official, is that the wind is blowing the water outside the drainage system – the system having been put there to catch the water. So the water is blowing onto the footpath and the council is promising to deal with that.
The whole thing is modelled on a jet fountain in Paris, apparently. (I bet that one works better) The water is designed to go 1.5 metres in the air, and be caught by the drainage. But they never factored in the wind…you have some cheek, T Scott. Like, our mission in life is to keep emigrants like you informed of what’s going on in the auld sod? And we’re not even allowed to express an opinion in the process?
Here’s an expression you won’t hear much in Canada, or wherever it is you’re holed up: would you ever go and shite 😀
The Sunday Times ran a story on this development a couple of months back…
ONE of Dublin’s best-known churches will be available for rent after its new owner completes a E3m refurbishment.
St George’s in Hardwicke Place has the tallest spire in the city but it has been swathed in scaffolding for more than 20 years, amid fears that it was about to fall down. Dublin city council even made the tower the subject of a dangerous buildings order three years ago, fearing that masonry would fall onto passers by.
Eugene O’Connor, a Meath developer who bought the church last December for E1.5m, has now begun to repair the damaged exterior of the 200-year-old building, which was deconsecrated by the Church of Ireland in 1990. He says that once outside repairs costing about E2m are completed, the interior will be fitted out at a cost of up to E1m, and tenants could move in by August 2006.
O’Connor also plans to light the tower, making the 208ft structure visible throughout the city at night-time.
Harrington Bannon has been appointed as the letting agents and says it is already in negotiations with potential occupiers. “The building was previously used as a music venue but would also make a striking office headquarters,” said Peter Flanagan.
“We have also been in touch with restaurant operators, but they would only take part because the building is so vast.”
The church has been through a variety of owners since the Church of Ireland sold it in 1991. Its interior was stripped, with the pulpit ending up in a pub in Temple Bar, and it was variously used as a bingo hall, a theatre and finally a music bar and rave venue, including dancing in the former crypts. Its bells, which feature in James Joyce’s Ulysses, were relocated to a church in Dundrum.
Designed in about 1805 by Francis Johnston, the architect of the GPO, the church’s stone has cracked due to the rusting and expansion of cast iron bands that held the blocks in place. These will now have to be removed and replaced with stainless steel versions, a similar job to that once carried out on the Custom House.
But James O’Connor, the conservation architect in charge of the project, has allayed fears that the landmark steeple will have to be taken down and rebuilt.
“The condition is substantially sound, but there is a lot of work to be done on the tower,” he said. “Our engineers are still assessing it, but I don’t believe at this point the steeple will have to be rebuilt.
“There are some areas where water is getting in through the roof, but it’s mostly dry.”
Dubliners got their first, albeit fleeting, look at the tower since 1985 when the old scaffolding was recently removed and replaced by a new aluminium structure.
The developer has already restored a similar church in Duleek, Co Meath. He purchased the derelict St Cianan’s in 1999 and it re-opened in 2004 as a restaurant called the Spire.
The Navan developer is confident of raising the E3m needed to refurbish St George’s, even though previous owners of the building said they were refused credit by banks nervous of its north inner city location.
Rates on the building amount to E30,000 a year, ironically the maximum that the new owner can expect by way of a city council or Heritage Council grant towards the cost of refurbishment.
And if you ever settle for just being a CAD, instead of a Cad designer, let me know. I have some tips 😉
There’s Boyler boasting about 100 posts, and you’re nearly up to 2,000, Graham. Do you ever do any work? :p
Pandos, I’d be inclined to give the Irish Times a skip. They’re not very adventurous, and don’t do many investigations. The Examiner is a better bet, they have a lot of young hungry journalists. Or else The Sunday Times, where there’s a lot of architectural coverage from the likes of Shane O’Toole, Hugh Pearman etc.
Paul, why is it so important you get approval from the city council or Heritage Council? is there no way you can do a project for a private sector client, and if it works well, then everyone will sit up and take notice?
ha ha Jack White. And aren’t you named after that pub in Wicklow where poor old Tom Nevin was shot dead by the Black Widow? :p
It’s not a matter of ranking Archer’s and the Wiggins Teape buildings above Tara – it’s about ranking them ahead of a narrow strip of land hundreds and hundreds of metres away from the Hill of Tara.
Do I value architecturally brilliant buildings above “cultural landscapes”? Yip, guilty as charged. Give me something concrete (pun intended!) ahead of airy fairy landscapes any day of the week
