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An image from the lovely Elinor Wiltshire to start this week after the August bank holiday. Fitzwilliam Street Lower Houses on St. Stephen's Green in the process of destruction, while high up are posters for Fianna Fáil with an image of the leader and the slogan "Let Lemass Lead on"!
With some of the family I recently visited the museum at 14 Henrietta Street, and one of the images that came up was one of Elinor's from Ballymun, with the young girls we have already seen and identified. It gave me a lift to see her work, and its association with a time in Dublin!
Photographer: Elinor Wiltshire
Collection: Wiltshire Photographic Collection
Date: April 1965
NLI Ref: WIL 14[4]
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Source: Flickr Commons
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With some of the family I recently visited the museum at 14 Henrietta Street, and one of the images that came up was one of Elinor's from Ballymun, with the young girls we have already seen and identified. It gave me a lift to see her work, and its association with a time in Dublin!
Photographer: Elinor Wiltshire
Collection: Wiltshire Photographic Collection
Date: April 1965
NLI Ref: WIL 14[4]
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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Owner: National Library of Ireland on The CommonsSource: Flickr Commons
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O Mac
Sadly demolished in 1965 to make way for the ESB head office maps.app.goo.gl/hoZiXDFxqcAcVdMT7
Irish251
The car is a late-model Ford Prefect.
suckindeesel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/91549360@N03/ Just another act of civic vandalism, for which no one was ever charged. I think the ESB have since moved out.
suckindeesel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/24101413@N03/ Probably late ‘59 car reg Edit: late 1960
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On a previous visit the street was wet ... https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/52343702062/in/photolist-2nKr9ZL-2oUmEA7
suckindeesel
Looks like Dublin South Central election of April 1965
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Recent news (July 2023) - "The ESB is to team up with the Irish Heritage Trust to develop No 12 Fitzwilliam Street Lower as a museum of Georgian Dublin." See - www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/2023/07/05/esb-and-iris...
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OOPS !! We are not in Fitzwilliam Street Lower !! 💡💡 💡 💡 I thought something was odd with the archways, so checked ... SKERRY'S COLL[E]GE was at 76 St Stephen's Green, according to - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skerry%27s_College#Skerry's_College... Google Maps shows the building on the right is still standing - goo.gl/maps/JnuMpxCTTYioTdQu6
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Also means the long
southerlysouth-easterly shadows are right ...Niall McAuley
Nearby in 1964:
Niall McAuley
Registration YZA 294: Dublin County AZA 1 to YZA 999 (Oct 1959 – Jan 1961);
Niall McAuley
The office block which replaced 74-76 is in the in the DIA as by Downes and Meehan
Niall McAuley
#76 was previously altered in 1920
Niall McAuley
The surviving house at right is from 1765 per the NIAH, so these demolished ones were probably similarly old.
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The lovely Elinor took another photo from a similar angle including a distinctive bollard - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000047703 - which is one of several still there - goo.gl/maps/GLfNSarjkVGsY4h46 Edit - Sometimes Flickr is amazing. In 2015 [https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia/53103041576/in/dateposted/] And an oblique view which makes me think the Ford Prefect belonged to the builder John Fearon & Sons, from the sturdy roof rack with ladder holder. Who else but the builder would have the confidence to park beneath a house being demolished ?! catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000047710
Niall McAuley
The houses being demolished stood for 200 years. The offices that replaced them have all themselves been demolished and replaced in the 60 years since.
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[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley] Yes, Elinor revisited in 1969, and inadvertently showed the new building - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000049532
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia Well done, St Stephens Green it is.
Niall McAuley
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland From that later shot, I recognize the office building as one that my father worked in for a while in the late 60s or early 70s.
Architecture of Dublin
I have an Instagram post on the demolitions from a few month's back. It was replaced with what was known as Colmstock House. It went through a wholesale retrofit where only the frame was kept in 2007. www.instagram.com/p/Cs6wNlJrYl5/?img_index=1 "65-68 St Stephen's Green South around the year 1968. The buildings were demolished soon after to be replaced with Tyndall Hogan Hurley's Canada House in 1972. Between 1965 and 1972 twelve 4-storey over basement Georgian houses were demolished along the south side of the green leading to Earlsfort Terrace. Canada house had a wholsesale refurbishment in 1988 which saw its limestone paneling replaced. However, despite being only recently constructed, the building was still in a decrepit and crumbling condition. It was later demolished in 2013 and replaced with Aercap House. Of the other three office blocks to replace the 12 Georgian houses, Hainault House at 69-71 (1967) was also demolished and replaced in 2019 while what was formerly known as Colmstock House at number 75 (previously 72-76), had a wholesale retrofit in 2007 which saw only the frame of the building maintained." www.archiseek.com/2010/2007-no-75-st-stephens-green-dublin/
Carol Maddock
Let Lemass Lead On was a great and simple slogan, and it appeared a lot in the newspapers in March / April 1965 in the run-up to the election. Politicians today would be very jealous of the crowds that turned out for the final Fianna Fáil rally in Dublin before the election.
However, in the midst of all the faithful and their FF fervour, some unbelievers made their presence known. Enthusiastic heckling broke out. Eggs were thrown at Lemass. The Gardaí moved in, a fist-fight broke out, and the hecklers were removed... (Irish Press, 7 April 1965)suckindeesel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/47297387@N03/ We were very naive in those times and believed in the politicians. Disillusionment has now crept in and the only large turnout now would be for a celebrity funeral or a retuning football team. Perhaps we’ve grown up a little since those times.
Carol Maddock
https://www.flickr.com/photos/184711311@N04 A little healthy scepticism is a good thing, I think. Having an almost religious fervour and firmly held belief in the "rightness" of a cause or party is what causes problems, in the past and now.
RETRO STU
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley So right!
RETRO STU
A sad and sorry sight indeed. A shame on all them responsible.