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It’s James Gandon that I feel sorry for. So many of his beautiful buildings were cursed. The Custom House was burnt during the War of Independence. Ditto the Four Courts during the Civil War. And poor Abbeville, inhabited by Haughey. A fate only marginally worse than the King’s Inns, which is still packed to the rafters with lawyers ;)
Emo Court seemed to have been OK. Nice place too.
Currently live in a Camelot gaff in Dublin 6. It’s a great system: cheap, flexible, and ideal for young people working in low-paid jobs. Properties only become available once in a blue moon, but if you’re on the lookout, keep an eye on their website and you might get lucky.
They’re not all palatial manors, mind.
Was there as a kid. My grandad used to be his gardner. Had no idea at the time who he was!
Was your grandad Jimmy?
No peter
I initially read this as ‘and a few PEASANTS that were apparently being looked after.’ …not entirely unexpected…
He was a pretty tacky person.
Reminds me of the Ozymandias poem..
But didn’t he train his successor ,,,,. “THE MOST CUNNING AND DEVIOUS OF THEM ALL ,”
I worked in rte and was part of the production crew for the address to the nation – the infamous tighten your belt speech.. After the recording I was dashing away but was held back because Charlie had agreed to take a photo with the crew. I wasn’t interested as I had nothing but contempt for the man even back then. I was unaware of how he lived but didn’t trust him at all. I also worked in Hall’s pictorial and had the pleasure of “sending up” the address the next week. I still have the ‘closing roller’ ie credits illustrated by the late Terry Willers of that visit to RTE. I feel it is a significant piece of history. The programme brought it all back . Wonderful progranne!
No questions asked on how this chap could afford to buy never mind run the place on minister of finance and then tshock wages . We all,had to tighten our braces in the 80,s many losing jobs and not enough opportunities for apprentiships and mass emigration .
I’ve no brief for FG or FF, but how could people ever elect this OBVIOUS crook over a decent, educated, modern guy like Garrett Fitzgerald?
Cos Garret believed the world ended when U left Dublin 4 He told Tony Gregory that it just couldn’t be done putting separate toilet facilities into the most deprived area of Dublin in the early eighties nice man but the wrong man for the job.
I wondered the same during all those elections. Fitzgerald also came across as a genuine decent man with a touch of the nutty professor/academic whereas Haughey always came across as a sly, crook and a conniving one at that.
But then again, I had flat mates that believed and voted for the crook at the time and people kept voting for the crook and the subsequent FF governments and now wonder why or how it all went wrong!!!!
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