North Strand Road () is a street in the
Northside
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of
Dublin
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,
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. It links the city centre from
Connolly Station
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to
Fairview by road.
Route
North Strand Road is a continuation of
Amiens Street, which runs northeast from the junction of Portland Row and Seville Place. It crosses the
Royal Canal
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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 fr ...
and Poplar Row via the
Annesley Bridge over the
River Tolka
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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
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mouth in
Dublin Bay
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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
German
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Luftwaffe
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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
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during bombing raids on
Belfast
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or if it had been a tactic to end
Irish neutrality.
On 19 June, the Irish government announced that the government of the
Nazi Germany
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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
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of equipment used to
jam radio navigation used by the bombers.
See also
*
List of streets and squares in Dublin
This is a list of notable streets and squares in Dublin, Ireland.
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References Notes
Sources
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External linksStreetnames of DublinaArchiseekArchitecture of Ireland– English-Irish list of Dublin street names aLeathanach baile Sh ...
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Bombing of Dublin in World War II
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Battle of the Beams
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References
External links
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
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