A War Memorial Zion, inside the Zion Church, commemorates the members of the parish who were killed or missing in the Great War (World War I).
Joseph Welland (6 May 1798 – 6 March 1860) was born in Middleton, County Cork and became an Irish Architect for the Board of First Fruits and later the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. He was as a student to John Bowden and became his assistant and is noted to have designed many churches and schools around Ireland.
While working with John Bowden with the Board of First Fruits, he shared some of Bowden’s works. These include St. Philip and St. James Church, Booterstown and St. Stephen’s Church, Mount Street (The Pepper Canister), both of which Joseph Welland had to complete himself after Bowden’s death in 1821.
Joseph Welland died on 6 March 1860 and was buried in St George’s churchyard, Dublin.
His younger son William Joseph Welland (1832-1895) also designed churches, and worked for the Ecclesiastical Commissioners.
The High School is a 12–18 mixed, Church of Ireland, Independent secondary school in Rathgar, Dublin, Ireland. It was established in 1870 at Harcourt Street before moving to Rathgar in 1971 and amalgamated with The Diocesan School for Girls in 1974, becoming co-educational.
In 2009, it was ranked as the best-performing school in Ireland in terms of progression to third-level education and is part of the Erasmus Smith Trust.
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MAXWELL ROAD CONNECTS UPPER RATHMINES ROAD TO FRANKFORT AVENUE
Maxwell Road is frequently described as being midway between the villages of Rathgar and Rathmines. It is off Frankfort Avenue which is in Rathgar but my grandmother, who lived on Frankfort Avenue, considered Maxwell Road to be lower on the social scale as it was, in her opinion, in Rathmines. My grandmother did mention that a famous gentleman known as “God On A Bike” lived on Maxwell Road.
Charles Powell lived in a detached house on Maxwell Road with two dogs. He was frequently seen riding round Dublin on a bicycle and because of his beard he was known, locally, as ‘God on a bike’. He was the favoured architect of the Dublin Jesuits, who in 1911 commissioned him to design their University Hostel in Hatch Street, a Gothic building in bright red brick, rising conspicuously above the neighbouring terraces. He died 1956 although his last work to be recorded in the Irish Builder, an addition to Rosary House, Harold’s Cross, dates from 1957, while his churches at Rathangan and Caragh, Co. Kildare, were not opened until 1958.and 1960 respectively.
University Hall, also known as Hatch Hall, is a building on Hatch Street, Dublin 2, Ireland which has housed a Jesuit university hall accommodation, a Direct Provision accommodation centre for asylum seekers and refugees and in 2020 a plan was lodged for its conversion to a 60-bedroom 5-star hotel. The building was designed in 1910 in a late-Victorian and gothic-revival style which contrasted markedly with its predominantly Georgian townhouse surroundings.
Founded by the Jesuits in 1913, University Hall provided accommodation for third level male students studying in Dublin until its closure in 2004.[4] The Jesuits promoted a spirit of ‘Friendship, Faith, Involvement’, and the hall was well known for its community spirit. The hall’s motto was Sic Luceat Lux Vestra; in this way let your light shine
Initially the hall catered to only a small number of students, mostly studying medicine in UCD, but its intake grew progressively larger throughout the twentieth century to a yearly average of over 100 male students.
In 2004 the property was bought for €16m by Gerry Barrett, a property developer who intended to develop the hall into a hotel. Permission for an 81-bedroom hotel was initially granted permission by Dublin City Council before being rejected by An Bord Pleanála.
Later the building was operated as a Direct Provision centre being used as accommodation for asylum seekers and refugees.
The building was acquired by Red Carnation Hotels for €20m in 2019 and is to be converted into a 5-star boutique hotel.
The undisputed annual highlight of the Hall’s calendar was the ‘Hatch Ball’ a large formal dinner held in the nearby Shelbourne Hotel. It was by no means, however, the only social gathering; with intermittent discos in nearby nightclubs, nightly parties in private rooms usually proceeding to Dublin nightclubs and regular excursions to the beloved local pub, Hartigans of Leeson Street, the social scene was always vibrant.
The hall also supported a number of societies including film, debating and photography. The management actively encouraged hall residents to become active members of the local community through charity events and homework clubs.
Former residents of Hatch hall still meet socially in Hartigans pub on the first Wednesday of every calendar month; a social gathering known as “Hatch Wednesday”. Past residents of the hall have included Desmond O’Malley, founder and former leader of the Progressive Democrats; Brian Cowen T.D and Michael O’Leary, Ryanair CEO.
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