URBAN EXPRESSION AND DEPRESSION
Street Photography That Highlights Urban Life
TEMPLE BAR LAUNDRY A COLOURFUL BUILDING ON ASTON QUAY
Aston Quay was originally laid out in the late seventeenth century, on land reclaimed from the River Liffey, and was named after Henry Aston, a Dublin merchant. Both it and Crampton Quay were rebuilt in the late eighteenth century as part of the Wide Street Commission’s work to construct a continuous quayside and associated thoroughfare along the south side of the River Liffey.
ESSEX QUAY WHERE THE SMOCK ALLEY THEATRE IS NOW LOCATED
Smock Alley Theatre on Essex Street consists of two buildings.
A former boys’ school designed by Dublin architect John Burke. It is one of a number of nineteenth-century buildings in the vicinity associated with the former Catholic Church of Saint Michael and John.
The school was built on the site of three former buildings. While the building now faces onto Essex Quay, historic maps show that it was once fronted by a narrow lane with buildings forming a northern edge to Exchange Street Lower.
The church, built in 1812, had an impact on the surrounding built environment through the construction of two schools and a presbytery, as well as being of considerable social significance as reportedly being the first since the Reformation to have a bell rung for mass and the angelus, with threats of legal action successfully countered by Daniel O’Connell.
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