A WALK ALONG THE CITY CENTRE QUAYS JUST BEFORE SUNSET
This series of images shows Aston Quay, Wellington Quay and Ormond Quay.
The River Liffey is a river in eastern Ireland that ultimately flows through the centre of Dublin to its mouth within Dublin Bay. Its major tributaries include the River Dodder, the River Poddle and the River Camac. The river supplies much of Dublin’s water and supports a range of recreational activities.
The Dublin quays refers to the two roadways and quays that run along the north and south banks of the River Liffey in Dublin, Ireland. The stretches of the two continuous streets have several different names. However, all but three of the names (Swift’s Row, Bachelors Walk and Usher’s Island) share the same “Quay” designation. The quays have played an important part in Dublin’s history.
The name designations of the north roadway are (from west to east): Wolfe Tone Quay, Sarsfield Quay, Ellis Quay, Arran Quay, Inns Quay, Upper Ormond Quay, Lower Ormond Quay, Bachelors Walk, Eden Quay, Custom House Quay and North Wall Quay.
The name designations of the south roadway are (from west to east): Victoria Quay, Usher’s Island, Usher’s Quay, Merchant’s Quay, Wood Quay, Essex Quay, Wellington Quay, Crampton Quay, Aston Quay, Burgh Quay, George’s Quay, City Quay, Sir John Rogerson’s Quay and Britain Quay.
WOLFE TONE PARK NOW CLOSED TO PUBLIC IS THE REGENERATION NOW UNDERWAY?
I have never liked this public space in its current form and I am `aware that many locals agree with me.
Wolfe Tone Park, sometimes known as Wolfe Tone Square, is a public space in Dublin City centre near the Jervis tram stop.
Named in honour of Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763–1798), the park is the site of a graveyard that was attached to St. Mary’s Church. The graveyard was deconsecrated in 1966 and laid out as a green park. In 1998, Dublin City Council held an international competition to redesign the park, which was won by Peter Cody of Boyd Cody Architects. The park in its current form was completed in 2001.
St Mary’s Church was designed in 1697 by Sir William Robinson, the architect of the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham. It was built in 1702 by Thomas Burgh under the direction of the duke of Ormonde.
The church has been associated with many famous names. Wolfe Tone, who was born in the adjoining Stafford Street, was baptised in St Mary’s, as were the earl of Charlemont (1728), Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751) and Sean O’Casey (1880).
Among those buried in the adjoining graveyard (now Wolfe Tone Park) is Lord Norbury, the ‘Hanging Judge’ of 1798. John Wesley, founder of Methodism, preached his first Dublin sermon in St Mary’s in 1747. Arthur Guinness, of brewing fame, was married there in 1793. In the 19th century attendance at the church waned as the north side of Dublin became less fashionable. The final burial took place in the cemetery in the 1950s. The Church of Ireland ceased using St Mary’s as a parish church in the 1970s and leased it to the Greek Orthodox community for a short time before selling it to a retailer in 1988.
Lord Norbury, the ‘Hanging Judge’: According to some accounts Lord Norbury (born John Toler) “was Ireland’s most hated man in the 1700s” as he had a reputation for condemning prisoners to be hanged. It was the hanging of Robert Emmet which made him public enemy number one in Ireland and there is a legend that he returned as a black dog walking the streets of Dublin following his death in 1831.
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