Donnybrook, once a thriving village, has in recent years succumbed to the invasion of the dreaded high-rise. With the new monstrosity at the bottom of Eglinton Road, and a six-storey, 85-unit co-living complex where Kiely’s once stood already a fait accompli (adding to that the disappearance of post office, banks,
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Anthony (Tony) Jordan, whose death a year ago we still mourn, was the man who reclaimed for Sandymount the poet William Butler Yeats. Tony organised annual poetry readings on Yeats’s birthday here on the Green. Always imaginative and inclusive, he involved a range of local people,
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The East Link Bridge replaced the numerous ferries that carried traffic across the river. The bridge which is a bascule bridge or a moveable bridge (particularly common in Belgium) was opened to road traffic in 1984. RTÉ noted that, “in its first 12 hours of operation over six thousand vehicles used the bridge”
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This picture c. late 70s / 80 shows the Clanna Gael Fontenoy Camogie girls. L – R. Jennifer Rigby, Christine Chamberlain, Patricia McNamara, Veronica Nealen, Liz Joyce, Janet White, Jeanne Murphy, Eileen Byron, and (out front) Loraine Rigby.
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When nature calls we all share a common objective – to get rid of waste substances from the body. While we may not use this particular phrase, nevertheless, access to a toilet is a basic need, especially in a city with an expanding population. When this service is diminished every citizen is affected,
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I recently passed a handsome brass plaque at No.163 Pearse Street, erected in 2008 to honour the firemen who died in a fire on the premises in 1936. The most distinctive plaques in the city (generally blue in colour) belong to the Dublin City Commemorative Plaque Scheme, though one might have noticed
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On the 12th January 2024, the historic and lovable ferry, the Naomh Éanna was dismantled and scrapped at the Grand Canal Docks where she had resided for the past 35 years and her artefacts donated for historic interest with Galway Port Company getting the bow and Ringsend & District Historical Society gifted the stern.
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While it may seem strange to the readers to think of an aerodrome at Ringsend, the concept is not a particularly new one. Indeed, it had been floated as far back as 1930 and was taken even further in 1935 when a proposal by Desmond McAteer was published in Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review. McAteer envisioned the reclamation
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