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A NEW BOOK documenting the history of Dublin through its buildings has just been released.
Stones of Dublin – A History of Dublin in Ten Buildings features some amazing photographs that juxtapose modern and historic Dublin scenes.
The book was written by Lisa Marie Griffith, a historian and walking tour guide.
Griffith said that through her work as a guide she discovered that many Dubliners have never been into the capital’s most significant buildings.
For many, history is something distant and aloof but it needn’t be. The truth is that these buildings tell our collective story and they are each highly accessible. Getting to know them is a very rewarding experience.
City Hall
In this photo, modern commuters stroll past Dublin City Hall, which is in the process of being secured during the War of Independence.
O’Connell Street
This montage positions the Spire’s predecessor, Nelson’s Pillar, and a Dublin suffering the aftermath of the 1916 Rising with the O’Connell Street of today. The street and much of the inner city were ruined from a heavy naval bombardment from the British warship Helga.
View of Christ Church Cathedral from across O’Donovan Rossa Bridge
The busy thoroughfare of 2014 is juxtaposed with pedestrians on Inns Quay from 1968.
Across the river from Christ Church Cathedral
This shot shows the view of Christ Church Cathedral as it was before the Wood Quay development was completed.
More information on Stones of Dublin is available here.
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Which landfill is the nicest in the state?
Gortadroma was fantastic but the council closed it
@Neal, not Neil.: NIMBY – typical response by (fill in blank) rent-a-mouth politician.
There is an alternative. We could massacre everybody in Kildare. Some might find that a little extreme however. Johnny Brady as a Shinner might have some useful tips on how we could pull it off though.
Glass houses robespierre!
Are they waiting for the incinerator to open ?
….now, if only there was a method of disposing waste in an efficient manner, in a compact (internal) space, and which had a by-product of energy or heat production……………oh, wait, yeah. Nah, can’t have that. Much better to FU the landscape instead.
Muppets.
@John Moylan: Is it that you are unaware of the 600,000 tonne incineration facility currently in build at Ringsend? Or is it that it was just too good an opportunity to have a go at someone or something?
Well sure our waste has to go somewhere and everyone going to say not in my back yard.
@mickmc:
And what if a family has to leave their home. Because of toxic gas entering their home. They will have a lovely Christmas. They are Homless
Ah well sure at least it not my house.
The garden of Ireland is being used as a dump…yup, that pretty much sums up Ireland..
What a space of waste
Surely it’s a space of waste.
A good place for shooting rats
What did I just read there? The whole article doesn’t make sense? I thought there was only 7 open landfills in Ireland?
What about halting sites?
Well that’s a load of rubbish.
Hate to say this, but ever since the incident this year, where the goverment/local council or who ever the phek it is that stuck there noise into the pricing of disposing of waste. Decided it a good idea to try charge me for recycling waste, I am basically like (and I hate to say this) I couldn’t give two fúcks about what goes into the black bin. Whats the point, I am just going to get a price hike next year. I’m sure I am not alone on this and this is the result, along with privatization of the service, the waste service in Ireland is a mess.
Because some of what goes into the green bin does get recycled and avoids landfill. Do you presume 100% of the green bin is useful or has a recycle value. Thank the Chinese for wanting plastic and lots if cheap shipping to Asia or your bin charges would be alot higher. All black bin stuff is landfilled and its expensive to dispose of it correctly and don’t see you offering to be a landfill site. We all moaned about the incinerator yet rubbish has to go somewhere and there is finite space. Want to cut your waste bill? Cut the amount you bin, simple
Jack Raynors gonna be p1ssed xD.
That’s not fair?wicklow gets everything and the rest of us get nothing!
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