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 building. After wandering around and about for a while testing the lifts and the water founts we found the party in the conference room.
The building is built over the tunnel that houses what was the River Poddle. Now, little more than a sewer. The Poddle had once been the fresh water supply for old Dublin. After the party, on our way to another reception, we drove past the old Dublin city walls just across from Christchurch, so I could say after all these years in this city I had at last seen the city wall.
Michael Tierney of Irish Life gave me a potted history of the company. It began in 1939, which was not a brilliant time to start selling life insurance. However, it has done so well, both at home and now in London, that we can regard Irish Life as one of the more stable things of life in Ireland, like Guinness or potatoes.
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