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Dublin memories
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Now O'Connell Street
The street was officially renamed O'Connell Street in 1924 after Daniel O'Connell as Ireland moved forward as a free state! Nelsons Pilar seen in the distance (middle) was destroyed in the early morning on the 8th of March 1966 by unknown persons (yet many have claimed to have done it). It has now been replaced by a strange "Giant Pin" or "Spike" that's 120m high (3m wide at bottom & 10cm wide at top). A now popular place for meeting as was "Under the Clock at Clearys" or at the General Post Office (GPO). No clear evidence to date tells whether the Dubliners (Dubs) have accepted this Spike structure yet!!
Contributed by Barry Murphy
Now the top pedestrianised shopping street in Ireland!
This is now famously the most exclusive shopping street in Dublin & Ireland too. The 7th most expensive rental prices in Europe with some retail outlets actually beating the world records making them more expensive than Paris or New York! This is the most popular place for Buskers from all over the world to display or perform their acts.
Contributed by Barry Murphy
Eire memories
My Ancestors from Howth, Eire. 1800s +
My Great Grandfather John Angus, was skipper of a 3-masted ship, which I believe
was called 'Rokeby' . John Angus started a little church which was a tin chapel in Hillside Terrace (now called Thornmanby Road) John also built houses in Hillside Terrace. The little tin church is now deralict. Who did John marry?
Two of my great Angus aunts ran a little tea shop at No 4 Hilside Terrace, and I remember as a small child playing 'croquet' on their back lawn, does anyone remember the tea shop.?
John Angus (junior) known as Jack, was also a seaman, but he became coxswain of the life boat station in Howth and was the longest serving coxswain they ...read more here
A memory of Howth contributed by Heather Graham
bray 1962
ihad a wonderful holiday with my friend john morrison from cambuslang,we stayed with a mrs mcgrath.i came from hamilton and we sailed from glasgow to dublin and then by bus to bray.we met a young hairdresserin bray JUNE ONEILL,and she kept me on the right road for my 2 weeks holiday.
A memory of Bray contributed by murray brown
Extracts From Dublin & Eire books
From 1862 North Wall was the
Dublin terminus for London &
North Western Railway steamers
from Holyhead. For years the
LNWR did its best to wrest the
lucrative Irish Mail sea-passage
contract from the clutches of the
CofDSPCo, but it was not until the
commissioning of the ‘Shamrock’
and the ‘Banshee’ in the 1870s
that they had ships to match the
speed of the CofDSPCo ships.
Even then, they failed to secure
the contract.
An extract from from"Victorian and Edwardian Maritime Album".
A number of scheduled steamer
services linked Dublin to England
and Scotland. Among the daily
services were those to Glasgow (18
hours; the fare was 15s), Liverpool
(fares 7s and 13s 6d) and
Holyhead.
An extract from from"Victorian and Edwardian Maritime Album".