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Dawson Street, Dublin
Dawson Street (; ) is a street on the southern side of central Dublin, running from St Stephen's Green to the walls of Trinity College Dublin. It is the site of the residence of the Lord Mayor of Dublin, the Mansion House, Dublin, Mansion House. Location Dawson Street runs parallel to Grafton Street, Dublin, Grafton Street from St Stephen's Green to Nassau Street, Dublin, Nassau Street. It is connected to Grafton Street by Duke Street and South Anne Street. Much of the street is a shopping thoroughfare. Molesworth Street, Dublin, Molesworth Street links the street to Kildare Street. The street has a slight slope downwards from its Stephen's Green end to its Trinity College, Dublin, Trinity end. Traffic flows One-way traffic, one way, northwards. History The street was named after Joshua Dawson, who in 1705 acquired land from Henry Temple and Hugh Price. He laid out the street in 1707 along the estate's east edge, as well as the nearby Grafton, Anne, and Harry Streets which were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joshua Dawson
Joshua Dawson (1660–1725) was an Anglo-Irish public servant, land developer and politician of the Kingdom of Ireland. He was appointed clerk to the Chief Secretary of Ireland, Matthew Prior, in 1697. In that role he petitioned for the establishment of a Paper & Patent Office. He became the Collector of Dublin in 1703, and held the office of Chief Secretary for Ireland to the Lords Justices from 1710 under Queen Anne. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) in the Irish House of Commons for Wicklow from 1705 to 1714. He developed an area of Dublin in 1705–1710 which included the setting out and construction of the streets of Dawson Street, Anne Street, Grafton Street and Harry Street. These were named after, respectively, himself, Queen Anne, and Henry Fitzroy, 1st Duke of Grafton (the son of Charles II and cousin of Queen Anne). This development included the construction of the Mansion House in Dawson Street in 1710 which was purchased in 1715 to be the official re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dawson Lounge
The Dawson Lounge is the smallest pub in Dublin. Located in a basement near the St Stephen's Green end of Dawson Street Dawson Street (; ) is a street on the southern side of central Dublin, running from St Stephen's Green to the walls of Trinity College Dublin. It is the site of the residence of the Lord Mayor of Dublin, the Mansion House, Dublin, Mansion House. ..., it has a capacity of 40 people. References Pubs in Dublin (city) {{Pub-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Stephen's Green Station
St Stephen's Green is a stop on the Green Line of the Luas (tram) system in Dublin, Ireland. Originally opened in 2004, it was further developed as part of the Luas Cross City project between 2013 and 2017. History From the opening of the Luas Green Line in 2004 until December 2017, St Stephen's Green served as the northern terminus of the line to Sandyford and later Cherrywood, with a stop located on the western side of St Stephen's Green. Trams approach the stop from the south, after coming up Harcourt Street. Immediately before the stop is a double crossover point which was used for terminating trams, but is now rarely used. After departing the stop, trams turn right and head along St. Stephen's Green North, where there is a siding, and then turn left onto Dawson Street. Cross city extension In 2017 an extension of the Luas Green Line was opened, crossing the River Liffey, and intersecting with the Red Line at the junction between O'Connell Street and Abbey Street, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broombridge Railway Station
Broombridge (, previously ''Droichead na Scuab'') is a railway station beside a Luas Tram stop serving Cabra, Dublin 7, Ireland. It lies on the southern bank of the Royal Canal at the western end of what had been Liffey Junction station on the erstwhile Midland Great Western Railway (MGWR). It takes its name from Broome Bridge, which crosses the canal, where William Rowan Hamilton developed the mathematical notion of quaternions. A plaque on the adjacent canal bridge and the name of the Luas Maintenance depot on site, Hamilton Depot, commemorates this. Description The railway station was opened on 2 July 1990. Both platforms are step-free accessible, the northern eastbound by a long ramp from the Cabra Road bridge and the southern platform at street level. A pedestrian bridge with lifts and other station improvements were completed in 2018 to facilitate transfers to the two Luas terminus platforms which became operational in December 2017. No toilet facilities are provided de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luas Cross City
The Green Line () is one of the two lines of Dublin's Luas light rail system. The Green Line was formerly entirely in the Southside (Dublin), south side of Dublin city. It mostly follows the route of the old Harcourt Street railway line, which was reserved for possible re-use when it closed in 1958 in Ireland, 1958. The Green Line allows for passengers to transfer at O’ Connell GPO and Marlborough to Red Line (Luas), Luas Red Line services and also allows Commuter (Iarnród Éireann), commuters to use Broombridge railway station, Broombridge as an interchange station to reach outer suburbs such as Castleknock and Ongar, Dublin, Ongar as well as Iarnród Éireann services. The Green Line from St Stephen's Green to Sandyford launched on 30 June 2004. An extension to the Bride's Glen stop at Cherrywood was opened on 16 October 2010. As of 2018, the Green line is operating at near maximum capacity during the morning and evening rush hours, and it experiences mass overcrowding and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dawson Luas Stop
Dawson () is a stop on the Luas light-rail tram system in Dublin, Ireland. It opened in 2017 as the first stop on Luas Cross City, an extension of the Green Line through the city centre from St. Stephen's Green to Broombridge. It is located on Dawson Street and provides access to the Grafton Street shopping district, the seat of the legislature at Leinster House on Kildare Street, St. Ann's Church, the Kerlin Gallery, Mansion House (the Lord Mayor's residence), and the National Library of Ireland, as well as Trinity College Dublin Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Unive ... (Arts Block entrance). Its side platforms are integrated into the pavement. References Luas Green Line stops in Dublin (city) Railway stations in the Republic of Ireland opened in the 21st ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trust House Forte
Forte Group plc was a British hotel and restaurant company. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index until it was acquired by Granada in 1996. Its head office was in the London Borough of Camden. History Charles Forte (26 November 1908 – 28 February 2007) was a British/Italian caterer and hotelier who founded the leisure and hotels conglomerate that ultimately became Forte Group. Charles Forte, funded by his two business partners, Eric Hartwell and Sidney Hartwell, set up his first "milk bar" on Regent Street in London in 1935 as ''Strand Milk Bar Ltd'' when he was 26. Soon he began expanding into catering and hotel businesses. After the Second World War, his company became Forte Holdings Ltd, and bought The Café Royal in 1954. Forte was a major caterer at the Festival of Britain sites in 1951 and also operated the restaurants and bars at London Airport, later known as London Heathrow airport. Forte opened the first full mot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Technological University Dublin
Technological University Dublin () or TU Dublin is Ireland's first technological university. It was established on 1 January 2019, with a history going back to 1887 through the amalgamated Dublin Institute of Technology which progressed from the first technical education institution in Ireland, the City of Dublin Technical Schools. It is the second-largest third-level institution in Ireland, with a student population of 28,500. The university was formed by the amalgamation of three existing institutes of technology in the Dublin area – Dublin Institute of Technology, Institute of Technology, Blanchardstown, and Institute of Technology, Tallaght, taking over all functions and operations of these institutions. It is the eighth university in Ireland, and the fourth in County Dublin. The university asserts an entrepreneurial ethos and industry-focused approach, with extensive collaboration with industry for research and teaching. The flagship campus is in Grangegorman, Dublin, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Hibernian Hotel
The Royal Hibernian Hotel was a hotel on Dawson Street, Dublin, Ireland. Its history dates back to 1751, making it one of the country's first hotels, and it was popular with the wealthy in the 19th century. Its restaurants specialised in haute cuisine, which gradually declined in popularity in the 20th century, leading to the hotel's closure in 1982 and subsequent demolition and replacement with the Royal Hibernian Way and the offices of Davy Stockbrokers. Early history The hotel was founded in 1751 as a pair of buildings making up a coaching inn on Dawson Street. Following the Acts of Union 1800, the premises became popular with wealthy British and Irish countrymen visiting Dublin. In the early 19th century, the buildings were a coaching business run by Kenny Bourne and Mr Hartley. They were sold to Charles Bianconi in the 1840s, and the hotel became the terminus in Dublin for Bianconi's mail coaches. 20th century Paul Besson took over management of the hotel in 1905. He con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elverys Sports
Elverys Sports is a sports shop chain in Ireland. Founded in 1847, it is Ireland's oldest sports retailer. Elverys sell sports clothes and equipment, both third-party and own brand goods. History Elverys was founded in 1847, and is Ireland's oldest sports retailer. On 11 November 1850, Elverys opened a shop at 46 Lower O'Connell Street (then known as Sackville Street). The building had previously housed a business that displayed wild animals and was known as Elephant House. It had a statue of an elephant over the door, which became the Elverys symbol. In 1894, Elverys expanded into the building next door, Number 47. During an attempt to move the golden elephant statue to a new plinth over the new door, it fell to the ground and was destroyed. A new elephant statue was commissioned and installed in its place. The building was sold in 1954. The elephant statue was removed, but the plinth on which it once stood remains visible, over the door of the Supermac's restaurant that no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Francis McNamara
Thomas Francis McNamara, RIAI, RIBA(1867–1947) was an Irish Roman Catholic ecclesiastical architect active throughout the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century in Ireland who designed many hospitals and Roman Catholic churches. He started his career as a pupil and later managing assistant of William Hague Jr., who was a partner of the architectural firms Hague and McNamara and, later, T. F. McNamara. He was the father of architects N.P. McNamara and Charles G. McNamara, who were partners in his firm from the 1920s, the latter absorbed his practice into his own. At the office of William Hague, an architect who designed many Roman Catholic churches generally in the French Gothic style, McNamara rose from being a pupil to managing assistant. Hague died in 1899, the year Omagh’s Sacred Heart was dedicated, and consequently it was "a culmination of ague'samazing catalogue of completed ecclesiastical designs and his continuous championship of the Gothic Revival styl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sacred Heart Church, Omagh
Sacred describes something that is dedicated or set apart for the service or worship of a deity; is considered worthy of spiritual respect or devotion; or inspires awe or reverence among believers. The property is often ascribed to objects (a " sacred artifact" that is venerated and blessed), or places (" sacred ground"). French sociologist Émile Durkheim considered the dichotomy between the sacred and the profane to be the central characteristic of religion: "religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to ''sacred things'', that is to say, things set apart and forbidden." Durkheim, Émile. 1915. ''The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life''. London: George Allen & Unwin. . In Durkheim's theory, the sacred represents the interests of the group, especially unity, which are embodied in sacred group symbols, or using team work to help get out of trouble. The profane, on the other hand, involve mundane individual concerns. Etymology The word ''sacred'' des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
