This section describes some of the tunnels made and found along the Poddle.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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