North Strand Road ( ga, Bóthar na Trá Thuaidh) is a street in the

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. It links the city centre from Connolly Station to Fairview by road.

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North Strand Road is a continuation of

Amiens Street Amiens Street is a road in Dublin, Ireland, that runs from Memorial Road to North Strand. History The road was known as The Strand in the early 18th century. It was renamed after John Stratford, 1st Earl of Aldborough (Viscount Amiens) in 187 ...

, which runs northeast from the junction of Portland Row and Seville Place. It crosses the

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on the

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, and proceeds to the junction of

East Wall Road East Wall Road () runs from the junction of the East-Link drawbridge and North Wall Quay, along the side of the northern part of Dublin port to the junction of the North Strand Road and Poplar Row. History East Wall Road takes its name from ...

and Poplar Row via the

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over the

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; at this point it continues as Annesley Bridge Road.

History

As late as 1673, what is now North Strand Road was under the waters of the River Liffey mouth in

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. In 1728 and 1756, the road was noted on maps as "the Strand" and was called by its present name by 1803. As part of a wider set of proposals to rename a number of Dublin streets in 1921, it was proposed that North Strand be renamed Bohernatra (Strand Road) along with Amiens Street, in a report by the Dublin Corporation street naming committee. This new naming scheme was not implemented, despite the Corporation voting in favour.

World War II bombing

On the night of 31 May 1941, aircraft of the

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dropped four high-explosive bombs on the North Strand Road area, killing 34 and injuring 90. Three hundred houses were damaged or destroyed. It was not clear if this was a reprisal for the aid of the Dublin Fire Brigade during bombing raids on

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or if it had been a tactic to end

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. On 19 June, the Irish government announced that the government of the

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had apologised and offered compensation. Speculation over the reason for the raid has included the possibility that it was the unintended consequence of equipment used to jam radio navigation used by the bombers.

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Records of the North Strand Bombing, 1941 - from Dublin City ArchivesPhotographs of North Strand Bombing from Dublin City CouncilWhy the Nazis bombed Dublin, The Independent (London), 24 January 1999 by Robert Fisk
Streets in Dublin (city)

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