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Little Britain Street – Irish

Humour

Ah, the Irish sense of humour - Great

Britain Street was renamed Parnell

Street more than 100 years ago, but

adjoining Little Britain Street remains.

This sign is attached to the railings of

St Michan's Park

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Brickwork on Fruit Market

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Chancery Park - plaque to

Herbert Simms

Herbert Simms was appointed Housing

Architect in Dublin Corporation in 1932

Addressing the chronic housing shortage

in the City at the time, he was responsible

for the design and construction of an

astonishing 17,000 new dwellings, ranging

from schemes of flat blocks in the City

centre to extensive housing schemes of

two-storey cottages in the emerging

suburbs of Crumlin, Cabra and

Ballyfermot. Chancery House, considered

one of the finest of the many innovative

inner-city flat schemes by Simms, is a

small carefully conceived building

containing 27 flats with an adjoining

enclosed garden which was completed in

1935.

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Linenhall

The street names of Linenhall Street

and Yarnhall Street, off Bolton Street,

are reminders that for much of the

18th Century, Dublin was of central

importance to the country’s linen

trade. The linenhall building was

destroyed in 1916 and only the arched

entrance is left. This site was chosen

because of its proximity to the Liffey

and to the inns and taverns on Church

Street and Pill Lane, where many linen

traders lodged while on business in

Dublin. The surrounding street names

of Lisburn Street and Coleraine Street

and Lurgan Street also give clues that

Ulster Protestants lived nearby and

there was a link to Belfast.

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The Chancery Inn

If you want a pub that’s the

Coronation Street of the Markets area,

go to the Chancery any evening. All

the locals go there. Unfortunately it’s

also an ‘early house’ and the residents

are not too happy about that.

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Capuchin Day Centre Bow

Street

“It goes all the way down Bow Street

in inner-city Dublin; a shuffling line of

people that never seems to get any

shorter, because more and more are

constantly joining. There are mothers

pushing buggies, elderly men in neat

coats and scarves, lads with

hoodies…In all, one thousand people

are regularly queuing every

Wednesday morning outside the

Capuchin Day Centre to receive a free

bag of groceries. .”

Irish Times Dec 20th 2010

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St Michan’s Church

Church Street

Mummies and Crypt

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Stained Glass Windows St

Michan’s Halston Street

This church is older than the pro-

cathedral and originally contained

windows by Harry Clarke.

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ABC Fishing Tackle

Mary’s Abbey

Alan Prosser from ABC Fisihing

Tackle is a proper gentleman, and a

great Santa look-a-like to boot. I was

talking to him a while back about the

proposed redevelopment of the area

around his shop. He said the only way

he was leaving was in a box. I like his

style.

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Handball Alley Green

Street

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Walls Newgate Gaol

The walls of the current playground on

Halston Street are the walls of the jail.

Robert Emmett and Oliver Bond were

jailed here. In the centre is a

Republican monument to those who

died.

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Bell on Bow Street

The inscription reads: I TO THE

CHURCH THE LIVING CALL AND TO

THE GRAVE SUMMON ALL

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Mosaic Marking Old

Distillery

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Old Typography

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Secret Tunnel

According to the Annals of Dublin,

there is an entrance here on Cuckoo

Lane to a tunnel which ran under the

River Liffey to Christchurch

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Bullet Holes Four Courts

from 1916 Rising

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Mary’s Abbey Chapter

House

Asking a Dubliner for the location of Saint

Mary's Chapterhouse 1139AD and 99 out of

100 will look at you in confusion. Though

even the names of nearby Abbey and Mary

Streets provide a clue. Just off Abbey

Street you will the last remnants of Saint

Mary's in a backyard, sparsely signposted

in an area suffering from a deluge of signs.

Behind a rather plain entrance steps lead

you down into the basement of a

warehouse. This basement actually is the

old chapterhouse, vaulted and possessing

great acoustics. A testament to the

medieval builder's art, though

unfortunately the Cistercian monks did not

go in for decorations in a big way.

Some of the stones from this building were

used in Essex (Grattan) Bridge

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Green Street Courthouse

Green Street Courthouse is home to

the Irish Special Criminal Court. It was

the scene of many trials including

those of Wolfe Tone, Robert Emmet

and other Fenian leaders. On 19

September 1803, Robert Emmet

delivered a courageous speech which

contained some of the most powerful

oratory of all time. The judge was so

moved that he burst into tears. This

speech became required reading for

aspiring orators in the years ahead

and Abraham Lincoln memorised it in

its entirety.

The stone cylindrical volume to the

right of the Green Street facade is all

that remains of the old Newgate Gaol

which was on this site.

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Fruit Market

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Clifford Antiques

“I call into this shop every time

that I’m in Dublin. It’s like an

aladdins cave of antiques ,the man

who owns it even arranged to

send my stuff home to

Manchester.. Its well worth a

visit... you never know what you

find... “

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Tattoo Studio

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Capel Street Arcade

previously Quaker Hall,

Bolands Bakery (?) by

Charles Geoghegan

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Blackhall Place

Where lawyers are made….

I said, "there was a society of men

among us, bred up from their youth in

the art of proving, by words multiplied

for the purpose, that white is black,

and black is white, according as they

are paid. To this society all the rest of

the people are slaves.”

Jonathan Swift

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Dublin’s Tuberculosis

Dispensary

Nurse Magrane made 269 visits to TB

patients in their homes on the north

side of Dublin city in April 1916.

During the month, the city's Charles

Street tuberculosis dispensary, close

to Ormond Quay, was notified of 55

new north-side cases to add to the

existing caseload of 567. Her

colleague, Nurse McKenna, visited a

further 153 TB patients.

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