
Two centuries ago
12 Sep 1730Last Tuesday night, two Sharpers after they had gotten a Prey, adjourned in the New Row on the Poddle, in order to share the Booty, where disagreeing, they drew their…
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Two Centuries Ago
15 Nov 1735TWO CENTURIES AGO Wednesday last two more of the Cavan Rioters were whipped through the Liberty. In the Procession one of them, as the Car came to a dirty Slough, was pleased to present the Hangman…
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Two centuries ago
1 Jun 1751Friday night, one William Jackson butcher in Kevin Street, attempting to scale the wall of the Bishop of Elphin’s garden, was shot by a Person appointed to watch, as his…
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Two centuries ago
21 Apr 1752Yesterday morning about nine o’clock, the Liberty Boys being informed that several Pieces of English Cloth were sent out of the City to the Clothiers in Chamber Street and Weavers’…
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Two centuries ago
8 Aug 1752Last Tuesday (4th) the Liberties and Franchises of this City were ridden and perambulated by the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, Aldermen, and City Officers, and by the, 24 Corporations who all…
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Punishment For Stealing Meal
1 Feb 1766Dennis Sullivan was whipped from the Cross Poddle to Harold’s Cross for [s]tealing Meal. Mr. Justice Drury attended, who caused a Bag of Meal to be tied round the Delinquent’s neck,…
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Two Centuries Ago
13 Sep 1770Sunday evening, to the amazement of many people, several hundreds of Herrings were taken up alive from the Poddle Hole water that runs under the House at the Sign of…
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Two centuries ago
20 Aug 1778An extensive and uncommon system of fraud was yesterday discovered on Dame Street. At the rere of a house in that street, under some warehouses which are entered from Sycamore…
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Floods in Dublin
2 Jan 1784Dublin, 2ud January, 1784. The ssudden melting of the snow yesterday, together with the incessant rain, occasioned such floods in and about this city as were attended’ with much damage.…
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Two centuries ago
3 Jan 1788Such a fog as beshrouded this City last Saturday night (Dec. 29th) was never seen, felt, smelt, or remembered by man, woman, or child. It would be difficult to convey…
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Bull in Poddle
1 Oct 1789On Monday night the people of a tavern in Essex Street were much surprised with the roaring of an animal under their kitchen; wnen raising some flags (beneath which the Poddle Water runs) they…
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Two centuries ago
2 Jul 1795Auctions One of those quizzing Auctions for which the Sky Merchants are becoming famous, is advertised for this day. The Catalogue announces for Sale, a large quantity of Bordeaux Vinegar,…
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To the Commissioners of the Paving Board
20 Jan 1814An inhabitant of the Cross Poddle begs leave to call your attention to that great thorough-fare, or rather tunnel, to which six principal streets lend, which causes the greatest confusion…
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The Storm
12 Jun 1822THE STORM Yesterday evening about half-past six, a storm or rather a hurricane arose, that did considerable damage throughout the City and Liberties, and we fear that we shall also…
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River Poddle Tax
1 Aug 1829Yesterday, pursuant to a requistion which appeared in the Journal of the 31st inst., a meeting was held at the Tailor Hall. GEORGE FLETCHER, Esq., was called to the Chair.…
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Sewerage in the City
19 Jul 1853Pure water and good sewerage are among the chief contributions to the health, cleanliness, and comfort of a city population. “We: cannot say that Dublin is fortunate in the conditions…
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Purification of the Liffey
15 Oct 1874Tho following is the report of Messrs. Price, Cotton, and Palles to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor and Corporation of Dublin :— “Mr Loud and Gentlemen. In accordance with…
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Great fire in Dublin
22 Jun 1875Further Particulars As might he expected, the scene of the conflagration was visited by many thousands of the citizens on Saturday and Sunday. From the report of tho police, it…
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Drowned in a public street
26 Feb 1876On Sunday evening, a poor woman, named Catherine Duffy, living in one of the numerous courts off Marrowbone lane, met her death under the following circumstances :—It appeared that beneath…
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Inquest
27 Aug 1877Mr. Harty, county coroner, held an inquest on Saturday at 20 Rutland Avenue, Dolphin’s-barn, on tho body of a child named Eliza McMahon, who was accidentally drowned on the 24th…
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The Corporation of Dublin’s public sewers
4 May 1878The Committee No 1 will on or before FRIDAY, tho 10th May, receive Tenders from competent persons for the construction and also for the repair of Main Sewers in the…
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A crime of a most fiendish nature
4 Mar 1879A crime of a most fiendish nature was attempted within the last few days in the city a crime which makes the blood chill, when remembering that it was the…
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Mysterious Precautions
18 Jun 1881For tho past two days workmen have been engaged in cutting the only subterranean communication with the Castle which existsin tho city. Most people in Dublin have noticed a large…
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Three persons killed
15 Sep 1882THEEE PERSONS KILLED Yesterday, shortly after noon, without a moments’ warning, one ‘ of the huge buttresses of the north chancel of St. Patrick’s”Cathedral fell to tho ground with a…
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Bull & Bride Alley Improvement
20 Jan 1900The important improvement scheme in connection with the district known as the Bride alley Area, and about beginning which some delay has taken place., owing to the requisition by Lord…
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Gossip of the day
5 Mar 1900In connection with the building of the Bride’s Alley area artisan dwellings an interesting work is being performed. This is the changing of the course of the River Poddle that…
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Health of Dublin
26 May 1900CHARLES A. CAMERON, Medical Superintendent of Health, Public Health, Office. Municipal Buildings, Cork Hill, 12th May, 1900 The following letters were also _before the Committee— Letter from the Town Clerk…
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Bull Alley Improvement Scheme
19 Jun 1900less rotten and the foundations were over the river Poddle. HE assessed the value at five years purchase. With regard to the ground rent he valued at 15 1/2 years…
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Liberty of St. Patrick’s – as it was and as it is.
30 Jan 1901YE OLDE CITIE LIBERTY OF ST. PATRICK’S – AS IT WAS AND AS IT IS. A most excellent suggestion was made weeks ago by a correspondent in tie columns of…
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Interesting discovery at St. Patrick’s Cathedral
27 Jun 1901HISTORIC SITE UNEARTHED BY MR. HARTY. In a litter to the Dean of St. Patrick’s, Sir Thomas Drew draws attention to a very interesting discovery just made at St. Patrick’s…
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The recent discovery at St Patrick’s – an old drawing
27 Jul 1901ANCIENT DUBLIN THE RECENT DISCOVERY AT ST. PATRICK’S – AN OLD DRAWING In the inclosure of the Church of Saint Patrick, not far from the Tower we have seen that…
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A Glance Backward – Ye Old Citie
31 Aug 1901The Poddle River – It’s Historic Association The following description of the Poddle is taken from an old History of Dublin:—”The great water course which cleanses the Liberties and the…
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St Catherine’s Parish – New National Schools
28 Oct 1901LAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE The foundation stone of the new National Schools for the Catholic Parish, which are already in progress of erection on a very handsome site in Donore…
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LG Board Inquiry
9 Dec 1901To-day Mr. P. C. Cowan, M. Host., C.K., Chief Inspector to tho local Government,so held an inquiry at the Council Chamber, City Hall, with reference to the application made by…
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Lord Iveagh and the Poddle
21 Feb 1902The Improvements Committee met on Tuesday, the 18th March, the Chairman (Councillor Jones), and subsequently the Lord Mayor presiding. There were also present:—Alderman Delahunt, Alderman William Ireland, J.P.; and Councillors…
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Removal of the old houses on Patrick Street
1 Mar 1902A London weekly in commenting on the removal of the old houses on Patrick Street says – “Few of the inhabitants of Dublin are aware of the existence of the…
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Loans for Improvements
28 Nov 1902The local Government Board also writes conveying its sanction to the borrowing by the Corporation of the following sums: — £2,563 in respect of the proposed loan of £3303 6s…
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Co. Dublin Land Case
18 Jan 1905Yesterday Mr. Justice Fitzgerald; with Mr P. Callan as assessor, sat in the Receivers Court, four Courts, and continued the hearing of county Dublin fair rent cases. Mary Ida Clayton…
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Poddle treasures found
13 Jan 1906ARCHAEOLOGISTS excavating the bed of the River Poddle alone the route of the new Dublin Corporation main drainage scheme near the city’s Christchurch Cathedral have uncovered finds of “extreme archaeological…
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Serious fire outbreak in Dublin
17 Sep 1906Our Dublin correspondent says —A big blaze occurred in the small hours of the 15th inst. in Messrs. Barnatt’s food stores, Fumbally’s Lane, in the Liberties, west of St. Patrick’s…
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Terenure Sewage
24 May 1907Terenure Sewerage Proposed loan of £20,000 to carry out the scheme Local Government Board Inquiry Yesterday, in the Recievers Court Mr PC Cowan, Chief Engineering Inspector of the Local Government…
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Dublin Civic Maps in the National Gallery
12 Oct 1907[In relation to John Speeds Map 1610] One feature, however, is missed in the latter. The Poddle in the days of Queen Bess and Pragmatical King James did not sneak…
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REMARKABLE CITY SCENES
21 Feb 1910There was a recurrence of the gale, accompanied by a torrential downpour oi rain, in the early hours of Saturday morning, and generally disagreeable tempestuous weather prevailed for the greater…
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Trail of the Storm
21 Feb 1910Trail of the Storm. Disaster of the Cork coast was the worst consequence of the severe storm which during the latter part of last week raged pretty well all over…
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Dublin – Alarming Statement Denied
27 Apr 1910DUBLIN. ALARMING STATEMENT DENIED. FURTHER LARGE OUTLAY REQUIRED. One of the Dublin evening papers yesterday published an alarming statement to the effect that the Main Drainage machinery of the pumping…
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Cottages and land known as “Perrystown”
19 Oct 1911Modern Residence COTTAGES AND LANDS known as “PERRYSTOWN”, WHITEHALL ROAD, KIMMAGE, CO. DUBLIN. We are instructed by John B. Hoe Esq. to SELL BY PUBLIC AUCTION AT 33 SMITHFIELD, DUBLIN,…
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Labourer’s finger crushed
17 Feb 1913To-day, at the Courthouse, Green street, before the Right Hon. the Recorder, John Roche, a labourer in the employment of Messr Moran and Sons, contractors Strand, London, claimed compensation for…
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Norse Dublin
5 Jan 1918More about Our Ancient City Churches By W.A Henderson Outside the Dublin walls were circumvallated with groups and lines of churches and monasteries. Many of these diminutive buildings were little…
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Crown Forces and Sewer Arrangements Near Castle
29 Jun 1921RIVER PODDLE Crown Forces and Sewer Arrangements Near Castle The report of the Improvements Committee of the Dublin Corporation to be submitted to the quarterly meeting on Monday states: A…
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Die-hards ignore B and T Office
27 Oct 1922The butter buttons referred to in this column reminds a correspondent of the Tongue fields, where a button manufactory flourished fifty years ago, with waterpower from the River Poddle. This…
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Seen and Heard – Notes on notions for Men and Matters
20 Jun 1923An adequate supply of clear water is one of the first essentials looked for by colonists, and the early visitors to what is now the city of Dublin found that…
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A Quaint System
12 Aug 1923A QUAINT SYSTEM ACCUSTOMED as we are to a plentiful supply of water at high pressure, and, in cases of fire, to the services of. a, skilled brigade, it is…
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A Dublin Street in the Olden Days
10 Jun 1924Famous and Fashionable In the account of the landing of human remains under the walls of 7-8 Upper Stephen’s Street, it was stated correctly that, this was in former times…
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Road Repair
19 Jul 1924The following work was passed provisionally at the quarterly meeting of the Council held on the 15th April – No 1981 – To repair and maintain 140 perches of the…
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Relief of Dublin Distress
23 Dec 1924Further details of the comprehensive scheme of works prepared by the Dublin Borough Commissioners for the relief of unemployment, for which the Government has allocated £45,000 to be expended in wages before March 31,…
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Picture stories of the day
6 Feb 1925Owing to tho recent heavy rain a pathway in St. Patrick’s Park, adjacent to St. Patrick’s Cathedral, sunk. A boy who was passing at the time fell into the hole…
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Letter from the Minister for local Government
25 Feb 1925The following letter has been received by P.S. O’Dubhghaill T.D., from the Minister for Local Government, in reply to an inquiry relative to the providing of relief work. Ministry of Local Government, Upper Merrion St.,…
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Dublin Relief Works
26 Feb 1925£45.000 To Be Spent. (From Our Reporter). Dublin, Wednesday.—The Commissioners of the Dublin Corporation have received the sanction to the expenditure of a grant of £45.000, out of an applied…
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Bubbles about Dublin – Fountains
30 Jan 1927Ancient Water Supplies ‘By ” TOMAS S. CUFFE WATER , in our Niobe of a nation,forever a seasonable subject. As early as the year 1254 water was conveyed to Dublin…
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Harold’s Cross-Ancient and Modern
9 Oct 1927At a single bound one horse village of Harold’s Cross the so-called has sprung into fame and the limelight. The dog controversy has centred the attention of John Citizen on…
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Whalleys’ house – No.1 St. Patrick Street
16 Oct 1927Whalleys’ house – No. 1 St Patrick Street, which was then within the county became an inn owned by the famous Timothy O’ Brien. The worthy Boniface, it is said,…
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The Rathmines of the past
9 Mar 1928On the coming of Christianity churches sprang up along the River Poddle and were dedicated to Irish saints, distinguishing them from later Danish foundations.
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Around and about St. Patrick’s Cathedral
14 Apr 1929In his splendid story of O’ Connell and Catholic Emancipation Mr. Michael Donagh quotes the Liberator as stating:—”It was the Union which stirred me to come forward in politics, I…
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Commentary on Crumlin Cross
30 Jun 1929Father Ronan has computed that the watercourse of the combined Dodder and Poddle Rivers formed between the year 1245 and 1254, supplied a daily average of 613,200 gallons to the…
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River Poddle Tax
31 Jul 1929PURSUANT to Resolutions entered into by the several Householders, who met at the Tailors’ Hall on the 18th inst., relative to the above Tax, I hereby request a Meeting of…
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Why are they writing?
30 Apr 1930I’d like to see a bust to my own old friend, Alderman Tom Kelly, the man who was Dublin, and I’d like to see some honour paid to another great…
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Historic Irish battles
30 Oct 1930Brian’s men had been plundering the country lying between the River Liffey and Howth. Sitric, the Norse King of Dublin, marched out to oppose them from the little town which…
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The Bermingham Tower in Dublin Castle
16 Jan 1931State Prison and Court of Law THE present month witnesses the migration of the Courts from their temporary abode in the Castle to the re-arisen Four Courts. No more shall…
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The Revenges of Time
25 Jan 1931Dublin Castle and it’s modern uses. THE whirligig of time certainly brings revenges. Amongst the latest news is that of the purposes to which Dublin Castle is to be devoted.…
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The Irish Rebellion
6 Jun 1931Some Outstanding Events The Opening Attack. One of the most prominent buildings on the south side of Dublin was Dublin Castle, situated at the western end of Dame Street on…
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Dublin Floods of Former Days
13 Sep 1931The recent disastrous floods recall the many severe inundations that affected Dublin and its suburbs in years gone by. For centuries past residents in the city and Liberties have suffered…
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Body of infant found
25 Sep 1931The body of an infant was found in the River Poddle at Dolphin’s Barn, Dublin, last, evening, by a boy named Rooney, of Rutland Avenue.
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Public health in the saorstate
7 Nov 1931…. So early as the year 1492 a Sanitary Act was passed relating to the two rivers at Dublin called the Poddle, which were filled and stepped “as well by…
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Interview with the minister – satisfactory result
3 Jan 1932Referring to the result of the interview which tho deputation from tho Corporation had with the Minister for Local Government (Mr. S. T. O’Kelly), an Irish independent representative says employment…
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The scene of tonight’s reception
21 Jun 1932Thousands of visitors who will attend the State function at Dublin Castle to night, and who have never been within its precincts before, may be interested in some notes on…
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Cameos of Old Dublin
20 Oct 1932The erection of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in the thirteenth century on the site of-the ancient Celtic Church o£ ” St. Patrick in Insula ” can be explained only by the…
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To prevent floods
4 Feb 1933DUBLIN LETTERS Though there may be some doubt as to the usefulness of certain work on which relief grants are expended, there can be none about that beinp carried out…
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A Forgotten Dublin Parish
9 Apr 1934A FORGOTTEN DUBLIN PARISH. To the Editor ” Irish Independent,” Sir—Information is sought on the records of the forgotten little parish of St. Mary, whose church of St. Mary La…
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Great heritage work of catholic lay teachers
20 Jul 1935At the annual Congress of the Catholic Truth 8ociety in Kilkenny, Very Rev. T. Corcoran, S.J., D. Litt., University College, Dublin, read the following paper:— The outstanding sources of guidance…
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When weather is wild it might be worse
27 Jan 1937Stormy Memories Of A Century And A Half Ago WHEN the weather is wicked, it might be worse. Glancing over those chronicles of their times, the newspapers for November, 1787,…
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Telephone Service Dislocated
13 Mar 1937The whole force of the Post Office engineering staff was called out for the task of repairing damage to telephone poles and ‘wires in Dublin and all over the county…
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Cottages Invaded
13 Mar 1937Water entered cottages in Rutland Avenue to a, depth of three feet, when the River Poddle, where it passes underground at Dolphin’s Barn, became choked up late on Thursday night.…
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Position Of Short Term Tenants
6 Oct 1937REVISION OF LAW IN REGARD TO COMPULSORY ACQUISITION FORECAST SUGGESTED revision of the law in regard to the compulsory acquisition of houses, held under monthly and weekly tenancies, was foreshadowed…
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New flat scheme for Dublin to cost £250,000
11 Jan 1938A new housing scheme for Dublin which will cost approximately £250,000, forming part of the Corporation’s recently-announced £7.000,000 plan, is to be proceeded with immediately. The scheme provides.for the erection…
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Make Liffey Beautiful
18 Feb 1938As the volume of water for the Liffey scheme at Poulaphouca was controlled, why not use it to make the Liffey always an ornament, said Mr. Stephen Gwynn, the well-known…
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George Bernard Shaw and Dolphin’s Barn
6 Sep 1938George Carr Shaw and George Clibborn, trading as “Clibborn and Shaw.” of Jervis St.. Dublin_ merchants, secured a loan on the ” mill_ mill pond, mill machinery, water wheel,” and…
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When Dublin Monks had trading fleet – City’s Ancient Rivers
22 Nov 1938Much of the interesting history of Dublin’s old rivers was told to a meeting of the Old Dublin Society by Miss Lily M. O’ Brennan . when she dealt with…
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Saint Patrick’s – Dublin’s Ancient Cathedral
18 Feb 1939The offer of a last resting place for the late Mr. W. B. Yeats in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, has drawn public attention to that ancient edifice, and, this being-…
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It’s a proud day for Irish amateur boxing
2 Mar 1939IT’S A PROUD DAY FOR IRISH AMATEUR BOXING New Luxury Stadium Stages First Show To-night Last night the New Boxing Stadium in Dublin was officially opened with all the usual…
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Oliver St. John Gogarty
23 Dec 1944In St. Patrick’s time the site of what is now the City of Dublin, the Seventh City of Christendom, was called the Ridge of the Hazels. Hazels were largely distributed…
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Crucifix for Council Chamber
12 Feb 1952A LARGE Crucifix, four foot long and two and wide, now hangs on the Dublin Corporation four feet Street a half feet wall of the Assembly Chamber over the Mayoral…
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£20,000 claim against corporation
29 Oct 1952Evidence was given before Mr Justice Budd, in the High Court, by Peter Cullen, Mount Down House Templeogue, in his action claiming £20,000 damages and injunction against Dublin Corporation for…
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Water Underneath
30 Apr 1953While the Church of Ireland General Synod was continuing its meetings at the Synod House at Christchurch Place to-day, water was seeping slowly into the basement of this fine building.…
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“The Phantom’s” Last Stand – In his shirt
1 Aug 1954If the sentence of five years penal servitude passed last Friday on 30-year-old John Broe, stated to be a native of Templeogue, Co. Dublin, has put an end to the…
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Dean Swift – His Association with St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin
18 Sep 1954One of the earliest references to be found to the Irish-settlement of Dubh Linn (Black’ Pool)’ is in the eleventh century life of St. Kevin of Glendalough who flourished in…
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Poddle Forced Families Out
13 Dec 1954PODDLE FORCED FAMILIES OUT Because of the swelling of the Poddle at Terenure last week, two families had to be evacuated from houses at the rear of Fortfield Rd. Houses…
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Rescued man better
22 Aug 1955Mr. James Wood, 186 Stannaway Road, Kimmage, who was rescued from the River Poddle at Captain’s Road, Kimmage, after he had fallen over the low embankment on Saturday night, was…
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Mount Argus
16 Oct 1956THE original Mount Argus was a tall, red-brick building on a few acres of land through which the River Poddle lazed, owned by a Mrs. Elizabeth Byrne, a widow, and a cousin…
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Porter or Stout?
26 Mar 1957Pressure on space lopped-off my little paragraph on the riddle of: Which came first – Porter or Stout? Mr. Leslie A. Luke (now P.R.O. to St. James’s Gate) supplements the…
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Pollution of Liffey
10 Jul 1957POLLUTION OF LIFFEY Sir, During the past four days 16 dead salmon and grilse have been taken from the Liffey river at the Custom House Dock by Mr. J. O’Reilly,…
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Fill Her Up Please-With Water
2 May 1958The ratepayers of Dublin are in business, says the “HERALD”. Man with the Inquiring Mind-exporting water of all commodities! Fill Her Up Please-With Water I had the telephone directory in…
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Dublin Rescue
6 Mar 1960Mr. Michael Byrne (31) of Kildare Road, was “under observation” in the Meath Hospital today after he had been rescued from the River Poddle in Harold’s Cross.
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St. James Gate
24 Mar 1960St. James’s Gate, been a favourite district for breweries. The situation was particularly suitable for the industry as it lay on the main thoroughfare to Dublin from the corn-growing districts of the central plain. The…
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This building survives in paintings
22 Apr 1960Church and the pool of Round tower of Dublin By Dr. George A. Little At Eastertide the Liturgy of the Festival focuses attention on the Church. The season’s special quality…
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Dublin Castle Tunnel found
2 Feb 1961DOES some of Dublin’s heaviest traffic run across a seven-foot high tunnel only a few feet beneath the road surface? This startling question is being asked following the discovery of…
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Stage which Poddle flows
1 Jun 1961Standing on.a stage under which the Poddle River flows, a cast of 53 past and present members of St. Gabriel’s Boys’ Club, Kimmage, will sing for their holidays for the…
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Full Tide
12 Feb 1962“An arm of the Liffey” continues this writer, “came through Crampton Court to Lower Castle Yard and beat at full tide against the rising ground at Ship Street. On the…
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We growl often about the rain
18 Sep 1962CAPEL STREET Bridge is of Kippure Mountain, where it is easy to find, being only a short walk from O’Connell Bridge. Well near it you will see water coming out…
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Open modern bottling premises
2 Oct 1962MESSRS. Earl Bottlers Ltd. have opened in Earl Street, South, Dublin, what is claimed to be the most modem and scientific bottling premises in Ireland. At a time when the…
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The face of Dublin
10 Jan 1963THE worst castle in the worst situation in Christendom A was how one of the Duke of Ormonde’s relatives described Dublin Castle in the 17th century. In the middle ages…
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Parish of St. Nicholas Without
27 Apr 1963The Parish of St. Nicholas Without, is one of the most historic parishes in Dublin City. It is a long narrow strip between New Street, and the Poddle, and is…
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Canal may be closed soon
2 Oct 1963The Minister for Local Government, Mr. Blaney, may soon be asked by Dublin Corporation to introduce legislation to enable the Corporation to close 5 miles of the Grand Canal, from…
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Our Lady’s Hospice – new wing
23 Oct 1963New wing SITUATED on the banks of the little known Poddle river at Harold’s Cross is a group .of buildings now known as Our. Lady’s Hospice, founded in 1845 by…
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Letters to the editor – The Grand Canal
15 Nov 1963Letters to the Editor THE GRAND CANAL A Chara— With reference to the remarks of W. A. Newman in your edition of the 9th Inst., I wonder if he is…
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Night of Terror For 4 Families
20 Jan 1965was wet in town I another night •nnri banks at road The A.A. reported flooding in four separate areas—Merrion Gates, the Naas Road at the Volkswagen factory, Santry Road between Santry Road and Collinstown Cross, at Blanchardstown village and 220…
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Combating Floods in Dublin
30 Nov 1965THE possibility of joint proposals from the Corporation and the Dublin Co. Council to deal with flooding in Dublin was mentioned by the City Manager, Mr. M. Macken, at the…
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The night of the big wind
6 Jan 1967By MALACHY HYNES It began at about 10p.m. on this day 128 years ago. A gale swept the country leaving death and destruction in its wake and registering the date…
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Martin’s Lands re-alignment, deepening and regrading
4 Mar 1967It is good news for engaged couples GOOD news for hundreds of engaged couples hunting for sites on which to build—there will be available no fewer than 1,442 sites… but…
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The Poddle at Mount Argus
8 Apr 1967The Poddles principal claim to fame is that its waters once formed the moat at Dublin Castle, and provided some part of the water supply for the ancient city. Today…
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Poddle River To Be Deepened
13 Apr 1967PODDLE RIVER TO BE DEEPEND Mr. R. Ryan, in the Dail, asked Mr. Boland, Minister for Local Government, when the Corporation would start and complete the deepening of the Poddle…
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Mount Argus Harold’s Cross
22 Apr 1967The twin towers of the Passionist Fathers great church have been a feature of the landscape along the course of the Poddle River since 1878. Now quite surrounded by vast…
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Drinking habits old and new
4 May 1967[more in PDF…] Faced with figures like that I had to admit that Paddy had certainly done his home work on this aspect of Dublin culture. But, apart from this…
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Historic Palace is now Garda Station
1 Sep 1967In a few years time a main road will pass over part of what was once sacred and historic ground in Dublin. Nowadays hundreds of peopl padd the spot every…
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Deputy Lemass will not submit to threats
30 Nov 1967Sir – In July 1961 approval in principle was recommended by the Streets Committee of the Dublin, Corporation to a proposal to use the line of the Grand Canal for…
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Assurances on canal doubted
12 Feb 1968Assurances on canal doubted MANY societies which work towards the preservation of the Grand Canal at Dublin are not prepared to accept Dublin Corporation assurances regarding reopening of the canal…
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The Liberty Watercourse
22 Mar 1968The Poddle River at Harold’s Cross makes almost its last appearance before going underground. This was part of the old Watercourse serving the Liberties of St. Patrick’s, dating back to…
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The castle moat
5 Apr 1968At the Epiphany, 1591, there was the usual extra beer issue to the garrison of Dublin Castle, high revel in the officers’ quarters, sentries numb -with cold on the high…
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Vandalism
6 Sep 1968Vandals’ have destroyed the new footbridge across the river Poddle at the top of Bangor Rd. The concrete and tubular- steel bridge which was used as a shortcut by hundreds…
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From Boater to Bishop
24 Feb 1969Bishop Street is hemmed in between the bulk of Jacob’s factory on one side, and tall flats built about five years, on the other. Back in 1610, John Speed’s map…
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Complex piece of Irish history
14 Apr 1969“The city stood on the high ground between the Liffey and the now subterranean Poddle extending along the ridge from Christ Church westward as far as the end of High…
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Street of the Tanners
25 Apr 1969Not so long ago, geography consisted of a simple smattering of seemingly unchangeable economic facts—Dublin for porter and biscuits, Belfast for linen and ships, Cork for cattle and butter that…
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Poddle Poses Problem
27 Jun 1969CONTRACTORS who will start on Monday morning to reconstruct Patrick Street will have a problem. They will uncover for the first time in centuries the Poddle River. The river runs…
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School in Blackpitts
14 Aug 1969St. Kevin’s National School for boys was built 1894-’95, and officially opened on April 20 in the latter year. The directories give St. Kevin’s as fronting on to Blackpitts, a…
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Opposition to Hibernian Trust’s Kimmage plan
6 Feb 1970Opposition to Hibernian Trust’s Kimmage plan PLANS HAVE BEEN made for the development of a site of approximately 11.5 acres adjacent to Kimmage Road West, Dublin, where Hibernian Trust Ltd.,…
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In Marrowbone Lane
11 Feb 1970Liam’s drawing here recalls one of the strangest corruptions that have befallen any Dublin street name. It is marked, but not named, on Brooking’s map of 1728, and seems to…
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Two level streets
14 May 1970A clear explanation of how Dublin has spread east at the expense of Dublin Bay is seen now when you stand in East Essex Street and look towards the Liffey…
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Across The River…
4 Jun 1970We crossed the Liffey last night from Capei Street to Wellington Quay to visit the new offices of the Irish Life Assurance Company, who were holding a small party to open the…
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New Dublin District Office For Irish Life
9 Jun 1970LATEST and most impressive milestone in the continuous progress of the Irish Life Assurance Company Limited is the opening of the company’s new Dublin District Office at 16/19 Wellington Quay. Rising high in…
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Heavy penalties proposed £200 pollution fines
25 Jun 1970A PRIVATE Member’s Bill that would impose a fine of £200 a day on anyone continuing to pollute waters after caution from a local authority will be introduced in the…
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Water is life
19 Jul 1970IT IS IRONIC that with the announcement of the publication of a new booklet, “Water is Life” by the Water Pollution Advisory Council it should at the same time be…
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Restoring Dublin’s Old City Wall
25 Aug 1970If you can obtain a copy of Speed’s map of Dublin, 1610—probably the most authentic with which to follow the outline of the lost walls of Dublin — an interesting…
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High time for action
10 Oct 1970The National Waterways Conservation Association have asked Dublin Corporation to set up a special Department to deal with the increasing pollution of Dublin rivers and waterways. A spokesman for the…
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Old water pipes found
9 Nov 1970TIMBER water pipes believed to be about 250 years old were found about five feet below ground level by Dublin Corporation workmen at Weaver’s Sq., off Cork Street. The pipes…
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Mills at Kimmage
12 Nov 1970The course of the Poddle is generally traced to the Green Hills beyond Drimnagh (now largely removed by the gravel men) or to the hillock on which once stood Tymon…
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Beside the Poddle
31 Dec 1970Liams drawing shows a quiet little oasis within a stones throw of the historic Poddle, the group of old houses in Loader (or Loder) Park, adjoining former mills on the…
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Wanderly Wagon
9 Jan 1971Most people know the Liffer and the Dodder, but few know the Poddle. Appearing in person the Poddle says: “I’m the oul river Poddle. _Yez’d know by me waddle .…
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Crosstick Alley
15 Jan 1971This is Crosstick Alley, which leads from Francis Street to Meath Street, by way of Garden Lane. Liam’s drawing shows the final section, just before you emerge into Meath Street,…
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Olympia gets a reprieve
4 Mar 1971Olympia gets reprieve The proposed development plan for the Olympia Theatre site in Dublin, and adjoining buildings, will probably have to be scrapped following the decision of Dublin Corporation to…
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Residents a help to St. Peters
13 Aug 1971OUR SUMMER SERIES on Schools’ League champions takes us this week to one of the most recent additions to the League, St. Peter’s N.S., Walkinstown, who are holders of the…
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Where’s Standfast Dick?
26 Aug 1971When walking along Wellington Quay at low-tide, look over the quay wall and you will see this outcrop of limestone rock extending far out into the bed of Anna Liffey,…
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The Scandinavian Kings of Dublin
31 Aug 1971The place where Aulaf fixed his residence the Irish called “Ath Cliath” or “The Ford of the Hurdles” from the wicker bridge by which the great road from Tara was…
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The Danes in Dublin
1 Sep 1971The Scandinavian towns, Dublin, Limerick, Cork, Waterford and Wexford, have suffered from the fact that they have all continued as cities up to our time, the modern houses covering up…
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Scheme to deal with Poddle river flooding
11 Jan 1972The Department of Local Government is to be asked to approve a £35.000 Dublin Corporation scheme to deal with persistent flooding along the Poddle River during heavy rainfall. Assistant City…
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Former Alley Corner
26 Jan 1972This hostelry, on the corner of Dean Street and New Street South, stands at a much-changed spot. What is now Dean Street was called Cross Poddle, until May, 1826, when the…
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Old Cross Poddle
31 Jan 1972OLD CROSS PODDLE What we call Dean Street, leading from Patrick Street to the Coombe, in ancient times was known as Cross Poddle. The change of name was made as recently as May, 1826,…
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Appeal launched for St. Patrick’s Cathedral
24 Mar 1972ST. PATRICK’S Cathedral in from the 5th Century, and which has withstood the ravages of lime and even Cromwell, is now being attacked by a new and hidden enemy —…
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The watercourse
1 May 1972THERE has been much useful representation about preservation of national monuments, street facades, canals, open spaces, etc., in relation to urban life. What prompts this letter is the first blow…
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A chronicler of Oliver Cromwell
16 May 1972[additional information in PDF….] triumphant make at the time in any war, and. which becomes the raw material from which the historian moulds his history. One of the first to…
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Bad planning may bury ancient water course
25 Jul 1972THE 700-YEAR- OLD City Water Course — once a complex of the little Dublin rivers and canals flowing through old Dublin and now out of sight underground—has left behind a…
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Firhouse Weir
2 Aug 1972This is the Firhouse Weir on the River Dodder which was of vital importance to every citizen of Dublin for the best part of eight hundred years. This remarkable piece…
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Two Poddle bridges
16 Oct 1972Through the courtesy of the White Swan Laundry, Liam was able to make this drawing from a foot bridge over a branch of the Poddle, where the ancient river disappears…
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City Scene
2 Jan 1973IF DUBLIN SHOULD forget all about the Liberties it certainly won’t be the fault of the Liberties. What they’re at now is compiling a book which is due out any…
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City Watercourse
5 Jan 1973ABOUT six months ago you published a letter from Sister Ann Fitzgerald, O.P., concerning the future of the ancient City Watercourse (the 700-year old canal linking the Dodder at Firhouse…
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Industrial Liberties
21 Jan 1973LIAM took his stand to make this drawing just about where Dowker’s Lane comes in from the right, to meet Blackpitts. In the distance you can see the silvery outlines…
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Found-The Missing River Poddle
13 May 1973Found..The Missing Poddle My discovery of the week was that the River Poddle still flows above ground in the heart of Old Dublin. The members of the Old Dublin Society…
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Up the creek at the “Poddle Millrace”
3 Jun 1973Sir — Your columnist Des Hickey is respectfully a bit up the creek when he writes of his “new” discovery of the Poddle millrace in William Talbot’s back garden at…
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A nun who dipped into history and got wet
16 Jun 1973I FELL IN LOVE with a nun last night Sister Ann Dominica Fitzgerald endeared herself to me forever when she grinned with fiendish glee and described how she fell in…
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River Burst
16 Jul 1973RIVER BURST At Mount Argus, the Poddle burst its banks, flooding two houses in Loder Park. Mr. William Walton, who lives there with his wife and four children claimed that the…
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Big Mop-Up After Floods
16 Jul 1973BIG MOP-UP AFTER FLOODS HIT CITY AREAS ST. SWITHLN’S DAY brought the floods yesterday and left many families suffering the after effects of torrential rain. Mopping-up operations still continued this…
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Left from the tannery
15 Sep 1973THIS SLENDER factory chimney, with an elaborate coping in the Industrial Decorated ” style of the 19th century, stands in Cork Street, behind the premises of the Court Furniture Company.…
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A liberty street
29 Oct 1973This is Mill Street which is a street truly in the Liberties as it runs from the top of New Row across to Clarence Mangan Road which was once top…
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Near Poddle Mouth
30 Oct 1973Looking down Little Ship Street, towards the Castle gate, you are looking at one of the most historic spots in old Dublin. The division of ancient Ship Street into…
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Proposal to let public to see plans
24 Nov 1973Proposal to let public to see plans THE CITY Manager will asked by Mr. George Butler a: the next meeting of the City Commissioners if he make weekly lists of…
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Two authorities ban plan
10 Jan 1974DUBLIN development company found itself yesterday afternoon in a verbal planning battle with both Dublin Corporation and Dublin County Council at the same time. Both bodies had refused planning permission…
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Place of Worship since the time of St. Patrick
25 Jan 1974THE FOLLOWING is the full text of the late President’s proposed address: “We are worshipping this evening to commemorate yet one more episode in the history, and indeed the survival,…
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Parishes Face Problems
17 Aug 1974Parishes Face Problems By PATRICK MURRAY THE-months ahead are full of problems for the parish priests of Dublin’s two newest parishes. Although the new parishes of Priorswood and Mount Argus appear…
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Residents Clean Up
27 Sep 1974AN ARMY of residents moves out tomorrow to launch a clean-up of the River Poddle. Volunteers will join forces with Dublin Corporation lorries, men and clean-up equipment. The campaign is…
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And whatever the fare it flows
15 Feb 1975The Olympia Theatre has some unusual features, including a stage that is situated at the front of the building, instead of the back. But until this week, when I went…
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South of the Moat
21 Feb 1975THE clock in this clock-tower doesn’t work (but that is not so unusual in present-day Dublin), but the building beneath it has been, for quite a few generations, a ‘busy…
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Follow me says Sister Ann
7 Mar 1976AT THREE O’CLOCK this afternoon, Sister Ann Dominica, a black-and-white garbed Dominican nun, will lead a tour along Dublin’s secret river, the Poddle. This years Dublin Arts Festival has Medieval…
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Operation Clean-Up on the Poddle
13 Jul 1976Operation Clean-Up On The Poddle Children from Greenhills parish, Dublin, removing debris from the Poddle river at Greenhills under the watchful eye of Timmie O’Neill, organiser of the clean-up.
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Cider gangs terrify residents
5 Jul 1978RAMPAGING teenagers high on cider are terrifying residents in Poddle Park, Kimmage, according to Fianna Fail T.D. Gerard Brady today. He said that teenage cider parties on waste land in…
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War against pollution
22 Jul 1978New measures to prevent pollution in Dublin’s rivers and waterways are being prepared, it was learned today. Extra funding and more sophisticated back-up are being positively considered for the city’s…
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Water pollution could lead to disaster
6 Sep 1978‘WATER, water everywhere. Nor any drop to drink.” The cry of the Ancient Mariner, may well be true of Ireland in the not-too-distant future if the pollution of drinking, water,…
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Storms Trail of Havoc Grows Longer
30 Dec 1978Storms’ Trail of Havoc Grows Longer STORMS continued to create havoc yesterday, particularly in the east of the country. Houses were flooded when the Poddle river burst its banks at…
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Flooding: ‘Lack of services’ – call for inquiry
30 Dec 1978AS WORKMEN and householders the damage to homes and property caused by severe flooding days, councillors representing the worst hit areas today slammed the lack of emergency services available. Snow…
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You’re a model for a coddle if you toddle up the Poddle
15 Feb 1979Does your mother know the Poddle? Will she take a dish of Coddle The oul’ dish that Dublin ate When days were thin ..:, ” THUS HEAD Lee Dunne’s invitation…
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On the Poddle
23 Jul 1979Dan Lowry built his music hall on the River Poddle — it actually runs under the theatre. Seemingly, he was anxious to have an entrance from Dame Street arid it…
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What a caveman did to a quiet suburban road…
5 Aug 1979.. and complaints go unheeded IS IT any wonder our capital is a _disgusting sight when a suburban road is allowed to become a knacker’s yard for old cars? Poddle…
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Polluted river ‘gave girl gangrene’
10 Oct 197912-year-old girl has contracted “Gas gangrene” — a rare and serious medical condition — from Dublin’s heavily polluted Poddle river, it was alleged yesterday. The polluted river, which flows through…
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Dreaming Spires
21 Dec 1979A view from St. Michael’s Close, Dublin, of the Minot tower and spire of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, so named because the tower was built by Archbishop Thomas Minot. Dean Swift’s…
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Memories of the Liberties
7 Oct 1980Memories the Ul Liberties Zoz by Joe O’Donnell: Olympia The Christmas spirit came early to the Olympia last night when the ‘ghosts of the ‘Liberties’ past floated up from the…
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Days of Liffey smell numbered
24 Dec 1981Multi million pound cleanup The foul state of the River Liffey has for years been the source of jokes for Dubliners. It has been said that if you fell in…
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Many homes hit by flooding
8 Dec 1982…… lives in a bungalow opposite the garage, knows the cause off the flooding. He said there was once a river which flowed around Nutgrove Avenue, a tributary of the…
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The Dublin rivers that vanished from sight
14 Aug 1984THE PODDLE RIVER was the most important to old Dublin. It came down from above Tallaght, through Templeogue and Kimmage and Harold’s Cross, through the Coombe, and Bride Street, to…
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From Tolka to the Poddle
12 Jan 1985BRENDAN GRACE crosses the Tolka and the Liffey, and gets as near the historic Poddle as makes no matter, when he brings on Tuesday for three performances his panto, Bottler…
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High-heeled shoes damage Cathedral
19 Nov 1985Women in high-heeled shoes do more damage to St. Patrick’s Cathedral than the heavy traffic on the adjoining road, a meeting of Dublin City Councillors heard last night. The submerged…
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Poddle surfaces in garden
30 Nov 1985Dublin’s Poddle River — which runs much of its course underground and once supplied the old city’s water needs — claimed a suburban garden yesterday. An astonished Mrs. Maureen Cooke opened the front…
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Gardens Fall Into River
30 Nov 1985Dublins underground river, the Poddle, has reclaimed two more gardens, just a day after the first garden caved in, on the Lower Kimmage Road. Yesterday a gaping hole opened up…
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Flooding work is held up
7 Jan 1986Work to repair sections of Lower Kimmage Road, Dublin, where the gardens of several houses sank in flooding from the River Poddle is being held up because of lack of finance. Assistant City Manager, Mr. Sean…
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Mount Argus Gets Go-Ahead
7 Feb 1986SERVICE charges criticised as “penal” have been substantially reduced in a new grant outline permission for residential buildings on land owned by the Passionist Congregation at Mount Argus in Dublin.…
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Culverting of Poddle River at Kimmage Road Lower
23 May 1986CULVERTING OF PODDLE RIVER AT KIMMAGE ROAD LOWER TENDERS are invited from competent Civil Engineering Contractors for the construction of a pre-cast concrete culvert over a length of 250 metres and ancillary works at Kimmage fload Lower, Dublin 6. Tender -Documents may be obtained…
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Christy and Brendan
14 Jun 1986I STOOD at the fine granite tomb in St. Marys Churchyard, Crumlin Village, and read the details in the stonework. Sir Frederick Shaw Bart Recorder of Dublin. Died 1876. He…
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CULVERTING OF PODDLE RIVER AT KIMMAGE ROAD LOWER
20 Jun 1986CULVERTING OF PODDLE RIVER AT KIMMAGE ROAD LOWER The period for submission of tenders for this contract has been extended. The new closing date Is 12 noon on Friday, 18th July, 1986.
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Mount Argus
16 Jul 1986I first discovered Mount Argus way back in another lifetime when we used to climb the Dublin Mountains on St. Patrick’s Day. I think we took the wrong turn coming home and…
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Singer, Family Trapped in Flood
26 Aug 1986Singer, family trapped in flood By DENIS McCLEAN OPERA singer Joan Merrigan and her family were today trapped in their home on Harold’s Cross Road as overnight rains and flooding…
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On Sale-Spy Mary’s Old Estate
12 Sep 1986On sale – Spy Mary’s old estate A LARGE slice of old Dublin housing stock, with quaint washing rights in the River Poddle, owned by a British Great War spy.…
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That Sinking Feeling…
22 Oct 1987More houses lost their front gardens to the underground onrush of the River poddle yesterday at Lower Kimmage Road, Dublin
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Notices to Motorist-South City-Grafton Street
23 Jan 1988Notice to Motorists — South City-Grafton Street To facilitate the culverting of the Poddle River, at Kimmage to close to vehicular traffic, the section of Grafton Street from Chatham Street…
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Viking Dublin
25 Oct 1988A THOUSAND years ago Dublin, though smaller and mainly built on the south side of the Liffey, was as thriving a port as it is today. Viking longships sailed from…
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Claire digs in to save treasures
26 Apr 1990SIMPLE wooden planks uncovered in the heart of Dublin this week hold the key to a map of how the capital city looked several centuries ago! The stout timber barriers…
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Mount Argus . . . £20 m. scheme launched today
18 May 1990Mount Argus . . . £20 m. scheme launched today By Cliodhna O’Donohue The land surrounding Mount Argus, the headquarters for Fr. Brian D’Arcy’s mammoth fund raising activities, in Harold’s…
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New Homes Choice
25 May 1990MOUNT ARGUS is perhaps one of the finest landscaped developments to come on the market in the area for a long time.The River Poddle has been brought through the parkland…
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Discovering The Poddle
13 Jul 1990Discovering the Poddle I SAW the River Poddle — for the first time this week . about it for years, but never quite unexpectedly. r I have Joe Tiernan of Tiernan Homesteads to thank…
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Old corn mill find needs excavation
16 Jul 1990By HELEN QUINN THE discovery of a 13th century corn mill by archaeologists excavating the bed of the River Poddle is very important and time and money is needed to…
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13th century corn mill find
17 Jul 199013th century corn mill find THE DISCOVERY of a 13th century corn mill along: the bed of the River Poddle in Dublin’s Liberties is of major importance, and time and…
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7 horses dead after suspected poisoning
3 Aug 1990By DONAL MACINTYRE FIVE horses were put down and two died in a suspected poison attack at Poddle Park, in Kimmage. Dublin_, last night. Officers of the Dublin Society for…
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Watery Ways – when the Dodder helped out the Poddle
3 Oct 1990Indeed, Dublin has had an organised water supply system for nearly 750 years. When the medieval city was only 50 acres in extent, the river Poddle served the people’s needs,…
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Cllrs Oppose Plans on Poddle Cover Up
19 May 1993PLANS to put more of Dublin’s Poddle River underground are being opposed by city councillors. The Corporation is evaluating tenders for the erection of concrete culverts over a section of…
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Bridging the gap: what Dubliners think
29 Oct 1994It has been nicknamed the Drunken Bridge and The Wave Across The River due to its controversial design. It will cost £750,000 of European money to build and will span…
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Councillors vote down bridge
16 Dec 1994TEMPLE Bar Properties’ controversial Poddle pedestrian bridge was torpedoed by Dublin city councillors at last night’s full monthly meeting of the council when they failed to give the project the…
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Liffey bridge plan appealed
13 Jan 1995TEMPLE Bar Properties has lodged an appeal with An Bord Pleanala against Dublin Corporation’s refusal of planning permission for a footbridge, to be called Poddle Bridge, over the Liffey at…
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City painter inspired by drains project
17 Mar 1995Artist’s life in the gutter Corporation carpenter Frank Connolly, who shares the site with Michael, approves of his new artistic colleague. He says the ‘drainage work “is the kind of…
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Liffey bridge architect hits back at objectors
12 Apr 1995THE proposed new footbridge over the Liffey will be totally accessible to the disabled and parents with buggies, its architect said. The 48 metre, canopied Poddle Bridge is designed to…
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Appeal on Dublin Footbridge
13 Apr 1995The designer of a proposed pedestrian bridge, between Ormond Quay and Wellington Quay, Mr Michael McGarry, said the Poddle Bridge could do for the city what the East Link did…
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Anglers Take The Biscuit
5 Nov 1995Anglers take the biscuit Mention the Poddle River to most Dubliners, and they’ll look at you blankly — because it has been built over. Years ago, while fishing on the…
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Riverside, Poddle Park
6 Jun 1999Poddle Park, Riverside New Development of 18 one Bed Apartments. Highest quality, secure parking 8 Only Remaining. Macarthy Auctioneers Ph 4904666 www.macauc.com
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Challenge of Poddle overcome
16 Jun 1999Dublins old city walls and the Poddle River are some of the challenges which Dublin Corporation is taking on with its plans for a new five storey office development adjacent…
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Litter Louts
14 Mar 2000A CENTURY ago according to James Joyce, the Poddle was pouring a “tongue of sewage” into the Liffey estuary. Nowadays one does not have to go that far downriver to…
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Underground
22 Apr 2000At the time – the end of the last ice age – sea levels were 45m lower and Dublin’s rivers, including the Liffey, Poddle. Stein and Camac, cut deep gorges…
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Pensioner (84) In All Night Vigil To Keep Floods At Bay
21 Oct 2002Pensioner(84) In All Night Vigil To Keep Floods At Bay A DUBLIN woman in her 80’s spent last night with her two grown up children trying to keep the…
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How history flows through Dublin
10 Feb 2004The River Poddle has been known by several different names over the centuries such as the Puddle, Pottle and the Podell. It was known as the Tiber and also as…
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Proposed New Footbridge
31 Mar 2004Proposed New Footbridge over the River Poddle at Poddle Park, Kimmage, Dublin 6W. Planning and Development Act 2000 Planning and Development Regulations 2001-Part 8 Pursuant to the requirements of the…
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The River Poddle
22 Apr 2010Forget the Liffey: the Poddle is the reason our whole city is here. This river, which rises in the Dublin mountains, provided drinking water for early settlers and even formed…
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€7m work on Poddle protect 800 homes
11 Sep 2019Sean McCarthaigh MORE than 800 homes on Dublin’s southside are to get improved flood protection with planned upgrade of defences on the River Poddle. Work on the €7m project, funded…
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