Slums, Dublin City, Co. Dublin
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You would have to class this as an atypical Lawrence shot, we see very little interest in the camera or the photographer. I notice that the photo is labeled Brown Street, a street which is not immediately familiar to me. I suspect that we will find that not many of the buildings we see have survived over the last 100 years, or have they?
As per the 2014 Streetview, and the incredible insights from today's contributors, only the leftmost building seems to remain. According to the NIAH entry it was once a 'Female Penitent Asylum'. While 'slum' seems a tad harsh to modern ears, this part of Dublin mixed industrial with residential - in a way that zoning laws might preclude today. For example, within 2 streets of this image were multiple tanneries, a piggery, glue works, maltings, and a fertilizer works. And, per the comments below, a 'house of ill-fame' :) ....
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: Catalogue range c.1865-1914.
NLI Ref: L_ROY_07881
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As per the 2014 Streetview, and the incredible insights from today's contributors, only the leftmost building seems to remain. According to the NIAH entry it was once a 'Female Penitent Asylum'. While 'slum' seems a tad harsh to modern ears, this part of Dublin mixed industrial with residential - in a way that zoning laws might preclude today. For example, within 2 streets of this image were multiple tanneries, a piggery, glue works, maltings, and a fertilizer works. And, per the comments below, a 'house of ill-fame' :) ....
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: Catalogue range c.1865-1914.
NLI Ref: L_ROY_07881
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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Streetview ?? - goo.gl/maps/7zxPiH58J282 The four-storey terrace on the left corner is still there.
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia I wonder why all the men are outside that house?
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland It was the Dublin Academy of Corner Boys (DACB). The fellow in the bowler hat is their professor ... ;-)
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**M U R D E R . . K L A X O N** "Fatal Quarrel on Christmas night" involving soldiers and a "house of ill-fame" in Fulham's Court, off Brown Street ... (1863) Read All About It ! - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/66459620 Ed. Transcribed -
O Mac
There was a Sunday school in the Dutch Billy across the road.... That building they're standing outside is still there and probably the only Georgian house left on the street. The lane next to it is Brickfield Lane. Pity about the Dutch Billy.
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maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,714367,733195,12,9 - The OSI 25" map shows the tall chimneys "Chy.", see notes. The ladies outside the printing works look ca. 1910 to me - a good deal of ankle and boater hats.
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Thom`s Official Directory 1919: 1 Brown Street ; IRISH CURLED HAIR COMPANY ; Phone 1577. Are these men waiting outside?
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Never heard of a Dutch Billy before, fascinating!.
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[https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]] [https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland] Yes, I had to look Dutch Billy up - this was helpful - irisharchaeology.ie/2012/03/dublins-forgotten-buildings-t... Ed. And this - archiseek.com/forum/topic/origins-of-term-dutch-billy/
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That 'Dutch Billy' must be the oldest house on the street. They pre-dated the Georgian houses.
Peter Denton
All I can say is that this image is crying out for some 'before and after' photographic attention!
O Mac
Brown Streetview The NIAH in it's appraisal of the tall building on the left says.... "An imposing building of considerable size, probably originally built as a pair of houses. It was in use as a 'Female Penitent Asylum' of the Parish of Saint Catherine in the mid-nineteenth century." It probably wasn't used as such after 1875 when the Convent of Mercy on Brickfield Lane opened as a night Refuge for Homeless Females. It would appear from the 1901 census that there was only a solitary person living in that big house. He was manager of a printing works.....
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Thanks all! Map/tags/etc all updated. What do we think about date?
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l did not get the email you sent!! Please resend via Flickr mail!!! Thanks so much!!!
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/maorlando https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] We will get back to you. Mary
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Dr. Ilia
Amazing shot
BlueisCoool
What a wonderful black and white street photograph.
silverio10
Buenas fotos antiguas .
davidwilkes2
is this the Brown Street please ? www.libraryireland.com/Dublin-Street-Directory-1862/184.php David