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For your entertainment, we thought we'd round off the week with a quickfire round of Name that Place / Place that Name. So please add your comments indicating any Nos. / Places you can identify from this poster, or add notes on the Places themselves. We shall not be best pleased if any of you are at a loss to identify No. 39!

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1 Royal University of Ireland, Earlsfort Terrace (Arch. of Dublin)
2 St. Doulagh's Church (Carol Maddock)
3 Drogheda Town Gate aka St Laurence's (Arch. of Dublin)
4 St Patrick's Cathedral (Arch. of Dublin)
5 River Dargle (Niall McAuley via John Spooner)
6 Bank of Ireland, College Green (Arch. of Dublin)
7 Powerscourt Waterfall (Arch. of Dublin)
8 Christchurch Cathedral (beachcomber australia)
9 Patrick Street, Dublin (Arch. of Dublin)
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12 St. Bartholomew's Church, Clyde Road (Carol Maddock)
13 GPO, O'Connell Street, Dublin (Arch. of Dublin)
14 RCSI, St Stephen's Green (Arch of Dublin)
15 Dublin Castle, Chapel Royal and Record Tower (Arch. of Dublin)
16 Sculpture Hall, National Gallery of Ireland (Arch. of Dublin)
17 Dublin Castle, Chapel Royal and Record Tower (Arch. of Dublin)
18 St Audeon's Church, Cornmarket (Arch. of Dublin)
19 George III, House of Lords aka Bank of Ireland, College Green (beachcomber australia)
20 Lusk Round Tower (Arch. of Dublin)
21 O'Connell Street (Niall McAuley)
22 Glendalough, Co. Wicklow (Arch. of Dublin)
23 Powerscourt Waterfall (Arch. of Dublin)
24 Gunpowder Office (John Spooner) / O'Connell Monument (Niall McAuley)
25 Iveagh Gardens? or St. Stephen's Green? (Arch. of Dublin)
26 Christchurch Cathedral (DannyM8)
27 Leviathan or 6 foot telescope of Parsonstown, Birr, Co. Offaly (John Spooner)
28 Harding Schools, Lord Edward Street (DannyM8)
29 South Great George's Street (Arch. of Dublin)
30 Round Tower, Glasnevin Cemetery (Niall McAuley)
31 Findlater's Church, Parnell Square (Arch. of Dublin)
32 Statue of William Dease, RCSI (Arch. of Dublin)
33 Female Masonic Orphan School, Ballsbridge (Arch. of Dublin)
34 Guinness (Arch. of Dublin)
35
36 Statue of King Billy/William, Dame Street (Suck
Diesel)
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38 Audeon's arch, Cook Street (Arch. of Dublin)
39 National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street (Arch. of Dublin)
40 Bank of Ireland, College Green (Arch. of Dublin)
41 St. Patrick's Cathedral (Niall McAuley)
42 Gough Statue, Phoenix Park (Suck Diesel)
43 Four Courts from Usher's Quay (Arch. of Dublin)
44 National Gallery (Arch. of Dublin)
45 Fr. Matthew Statue, O'Connell Street (Arch. of Dublin)
46 Poulaphouca (Arch. of Dublin)
47 Muiredeach's High Cross, Monasterboice, Co. Louth (Arch. of Dublin)
48 G.P.O. (Arch. of Dublin)
49 Custom House (Arch. of Dublin)

Photographer: Various

Collection: NLI Ephemera Collection

Date: Circa 1894

NLI Ref: EPH G58

You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie

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John Spooner
- 25/Aug/2023 08:01:08
Yours for half a crown (i.e. 2/6) Irish Independent - Thursday 06 August 1896 - but it was advertised extensively until about 1914 (still 2/6) Several articles in following years quote it, until the late 1920s, even though one quote is prefaced: "The otherwise very reliable and excellent little Dictionary of Dublin says: [etc etc]" (Weekly Freeman's Journal - Saturday 05 December 1914) The word on the street is that [https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland] has a copy (Evening Irish Times - Monday 26 May 1913)
DannyM8
- 25/Aug/2023 08:04:17
26 Christchurch Cathedral
O Mac
- 25/Aug/2023 08:13:52
Major Spoiler : archive.org/details/dictionaryofdubl00cosgiala/mode/1up
John Spooner
- 25/Aug/2023 08:14:04
Number 24 not only has the Gunpowder Office but also the big sign advertising the photographery business Chancellors, who advertised their Movable Boudoir to convey Sitters to the Galleries. Nothing else of interest at all in picture 24.
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
- 25/Aug/2023 08:40:02
Another Spoiler Alert! Flickr is sometimes amazing! Via [https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/] For example no. 19 [https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/11303446173/] More - www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/tags/sysnum000792938
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
- 25/Aug/2023 08:48:42
The British Library version was published in 1895 - access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000000318C#?c=0... 'The Dictionary of Dublin, being a comprehensive guide to the city and its neighbourhood ... Illustrated by numerous photographs taken by the authors'
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
- 25/Aug/2023 09:01:27
37 - "A Street Stall" but where? https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/11135191514/
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
- 25/Aug/2023 09:14:04
https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia This one's (37) a toughie alright. But on a broad street with house numbers that go up to at least 110 (a public house?).
Carol Maddock
- 25/Aug/2023 09:23:47
2 is St. Doulagh's Church. https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/8046435012
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
- 25/Aug/2023 09:28:17
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland I want to smack her hand and say, "Don't touch!".
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
- 25/Aug/2023 09:30:06
https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia Is she not the stallholder? Bit difficult for her not to touch things... :D
DannyM8
- 25/Aug/2023 09:34:43
beachcomber australia National Library of Ireland on The Commons reminds me of Thomas Street?
Niall McAuley
- 25/Aug/2023 10:18:52
We have seen the middle top one (the Dargle) before, Mr. Spooner posted it in the comments here:
Niall McAuley
- 25/Aug/2023 10:35:04
https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner On #24, it has the tall electric lights (1892-1903), also a railing around the steps at the O'Connell monument. I have been trying to figure out when the railing was added. Not there in 1889 (written out of history) or Gunpowder Office. There for the opening of the DBC in 1900. #24 means not there in 1892 for the new tall lights. Edit: no it doesn't! It means the railings were in place before the trams were electrified south of the pillar, which I think means 1898.
John Spooner
- 25/Aug/2023 10:57:02
I think Number 27 must be the Leviathan of Parsonstown
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
- 25/Aug/2023 11:10:00
https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner Absolutely, definitely not all Dublin locations, despite being a "Dictionary of Dublin".
suckindeesel
- 25/Aug/2023 11:14:12
No. 36 is King Billy on his steed, long ago blown up No. 42, Gough, also mounted, also blown up. Rude alert! “There are strange things done from twelve to one In the hollow at Phaynix Park, There’s maidens mobbed and gentlemen robbed In the bushes after dark; But the strangest of all within human recall Concerns the statue of Gough, ’Twas a terrible fact, and a most wicked act, For his bollix they tried to blow off!” I think it now resides in some stately English estate, home of some distant relative.
Carol Maddock
- 25/Aug/2023 11:20:55
I'm 90/95% certain that no. 12 is St. Bartholomew's Church on Elgin Road/Clyde Road. Anyone else confirm? It's quite a distinctive tower.
John Spooner
- 25/Aug/2023 11:31:48
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland The text which goes with the Telescope comes right at the end of the first part of the DoD, following a few suggestions of day trips from Dublin, under the heading 'General Remarks'
It must not be supposed that the trips mentioned exhaust the possibilities of Wicklow or of Dublin, but they are the least that one should do who wishes to say that he has seen something of their varied beauties. The present book has no pretentions to be a guide to the county and can therefore not afford space for more extended suggestions. On most almost all of these trips as inns are few and far between the visitor will act wisely in bringing lunch with him. Larger excursions in Ireland are so numerous, that we could not here attempt to give even an outline of the more famous. The Giant Causeway, Killarney, Glengariff and a host of other exquisite spots will entice the visitor to spend many long holiday in Erin's Isle. We need add but one picture of a site which can be seen only in Ireland - the giant reflecting telescope of Lord Rosse at Parsonstown - an instrument of great interest to scientific man and unique in itself.
In other words "there's more to Ireland than Dublin, for example this telescope. Sealy, Briars and Walker also published a couple of other guide books for other parts of Ireland - Killarney, Donegal Highlands etc
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
- 25/Aug/2023 11:32:05
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/184711311@N04] If you think that's rude, check out the title of Donal Fallon's excellent Come Here to Me! post on the Gough statue...
John Spooner
- 25/Aug/2023 12:04:07
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland Isn't it The Law that every Dublin statue has to have at least one cheeky nickname? I imagined for some reason that this was a relatively recent thing, but the DIctionary of Dublin describes the 1862 monument to Sir Philip Crampton
It consists of a drinking fountain with three basins, from which rises a tall spike of water lilies and other aquatic plants cast in bronze. In the middle a bust of Sir Philip nestles. This monument is locally known as the "water babe" but has been called the "cabbage".
It might not follow the modern pattern of "the XXXXX with/in the YYYYY", but does display a healthy disrespect for statuary.
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
- 25/Aug/2023 13:17:15
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner] It is indeed The Law, John. And crikey, looked up the Crampton memorial. What a monument that "cabbage" was. Ginormous (technical term). It stood on the triangle alongside Pearse Street Garda Station, and amazingly we don't have a digitised photo of it in our collections. Here it is in all its glory on the Archiseek site.
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
- 25/Aug/2023 13:28:20
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/47297387@N03] Yes to no. 12 St Bartholomew's Church (at 11:28 !!) - access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000000318C#?c=0... The following page has no. 35, the children, who are called "Street Arabs" in the good book. - access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000000318C#?c=0...
Architecture of Dublin
- 25/Aug/2023 13:42:24
1. Royal University of Ireland, Earlsfort Terrace 2. St. Doulagh' Church 3. Drogheda Town Gate (St Laurence's) 4. St Patrick's Cathedral 5. River Dargle 6. Bank of Ireland, College Green 7. Powerscourt Waterfall 8. TBC 9. St Patrick Street and St Nicholas Street, Dublin - looking towards St Patrick's cathedral 10. TBC 11. Presumably Glendalough (as the writing preceding it indicates) 12. St Bartholomew's Church of Ireland. Ballsbridge 13. GPO, O'Connell Street, Dublin 14. RCSI, St Stephen's Green 15. Dublin Castle, Chapel Royal and record tower 16. Sculpture Hall, National Gallery of Ireland 17. Dublin Castle, Chapel Royal and record tower 18. St Audeon's Church, Cornmarket 19. TBC 20. Lusk round tower 21. O'Connell Street looking towards O'Connell Bridge 22. Glendalough 23. Powerscourt Waterfall 24. O'Connell Bridge 25. Is this just the rockery in Lord Iveagh's Garden? 26. Christchurch Cathedral 27. Birr Castle (telescope) 28. Harding Schools, Lord Edward Street (now a hotel) 29. South Great George's Street 30. Parnell's Grave and O'Connell Tower, Glasnevin cemetry 31. Findlator's Church, Parnell Square 32. Statue of William Dease, RCSI, St Stephen's Green 33. Female Masonic Orphan School (now a hotel), Ballsbridge 34. Guinness Brewery, Victoria Quay 35. "Street urchins" - unknown location but likely Dublin 8 somewhere 36. King William of Orange, College Green 37. TBC - possibly Thomas Street 38. Audeon's arch, Cook Street 39. National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street 40. Bank of Ireland College Green looking towards Foster Place 41. TBC 42. Lord Gough Statue, phoenix Park (since blown up but the base is still there) 43, Four Courts from Usher's Quay (Fr Matthew or Whitworth bridge in the foreground) 44. National Gallery 45. Fr, Matthew Statue, O'Connell Street, Dublin 46. Poulaphouca 47. Muiredeach's High Cross, Monasterboice, County Louth 48. GPO 49. The Custom House and the entrance to the old Custom House Dock swing bridge
DannyM8
- 25/Aug/2023 13:43:56
28 is this one, from only a few weeks ago! https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/53067909453
Carol Maddock
- 25/Aug/2023 13:46:59
https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia Thanks for the confirmation!
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
- 25/Aug/2023 13:51:52
https://www.flickr.com/photos/186395973@N06 Phew! Thank you for all this. Looking forward to the TBCs... :)
Niall McAuley
- 25/Aug/2023 14:10:19
https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia #19 is in the dia: Name:BACON, JOHN 2*# Building:CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, BANK OF IRELAND Date:1813 Nature:Statue of George III executed by JB to design by Thomas Kirk. (In Maynooth College, Co. Kildare, 2010.) Refs:Engraving of statue with dedicatory inscription by JB for sale by Bloomsbury Auctions, 4 Nov 2010, Lot 326; Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture: Native Genius Reaffirmed (Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2010), 12(illus.)
Niall McAuley
- 25/Aug/2023 14:12:48
It is in Maynooth University now: A photograph of the marble statue of King George III in the foyer of the Russell library
Niall McAuley
- 25/Aug/2023 14:17:31
#21 is a reverse view along O'Connell Street towards the bridge.
Niall McAuley
- 25/Aug/2023 14:26:12
#30 is the Round Tower at Glasnevin.
Niall McAuley
- 25/Aug/2023 14:30:21
I think #41 is St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
- 25/Aug/2023 14:39:50
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley Excellent, Niall, thank you! You filled in a fair few of https://www.flickr.com/photos/186395973@N06/'s TBCs.
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
- 25/Aug/2023 15:13:30
Thank you, everyone, especially https://www.flickr.com/photos/186395973@N06/! By my reckoning, that just leaves 8 10 11 35 37.
wxcoudtm95
- 25/Aug/2023 15:17:30
Would number 8 possibly be St Patrick's Cathedral in Armagh
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
- 25/Aug/2023 15:19:46
wxcoudtm95 Ooh, could be, Michelle! Can anyone else confirm St. Patrick's Cathedral in Armagh for no. 8??
Architecture of Dublin
- 25/Aug/2023 15:24:48
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mechanicalcuratorcuttings/10571622155/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/mechanicalcuratorcuttings/10574445015/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/mechanicalcuratorcuttings/10572932546/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/mechanicalcuratorcuttings/10574108905/
Architecture of Dublin
- 25/Aug/2023 16:20:23
I could be wrong on 25...
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
- 25/Aug/2023 16:27:48
Architecture of Dublin Could 25 be Stephen's Green then? Though was fairly happy with the Iveagh Gardens.
suckindeesel
- 25/Aug/2023 17:38:20
No. 25 could be the waterfall in the Iveagh Gardens https://flic.kr/p/PF7uAU via FeckR
suckindeesel
- 25/Aug/2023 21:16:54
https://flic.kr/p/2oXSzcU No. 36 A boyish looking King Billy
suckindeesel
- 26/Aug/2023 12:22:13
https://flic.kr/p/2oY3ise No. 36 Has he cantered further up the street, or is it just a trick of perspective?
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
- 26/Aug/2023 15:21:38
http://www.flickr.com/photos/184711311@N04/ Lovely to believe in the cantering, but suspect it's perspective.
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
- 26/Aug/2023 21:22:44
Not sure this has been sorted yet: No. 8 is "Christ Church (looking E)", according to the book. The text accompanying all the dictionary entries is a good-ish read, albeit from an 1890s perspective - access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000000318C#?c=0... In 2011 via [https://www.flickr.com/photos/12326656@N07/] [https://www.flickr.com/photos/12326656@N07/6042548433/]
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
- 27/Aug/2023 08:06:06
http://www.flickr.com/photos/32162360@N00/ Sorted by you now. Thanks a million for doing weekend overtime!
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
- 27/Aug/2023 11:13:53
https://www.flickr.com/photos/187317575@N03 Hi Michelle. No. 8 turned out to be Christchurch Cathedral, Dublin in the end.
wxcoudtm95
- 27/Aug/2023 14:26:04
https://www.flickr.com/photos/47290943@N03/ Good to know, thanks. On further comparison I noticed the Armagh Cathedral had an extra round stained window
suckindeesel
- 27/Aug/2023 22:32:19
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland https://flic.kr/p/2oYkoky No. 25 turns out to be the waterfall in the Green, not Iveagh Gardens https://flic.kr/p/7e5e3m via Emerald Isle