1. Markets Area Hidden Gems
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Little Britain Street – Irish
Humour
Ah, the Irish sense of humour - Great
Britain Street was renamed Parnell
Street more than 100 years ago, but
adjoining Little Britain Street remains.
This sign is attached to the railings of
St Michan's Park
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Brickwork on Fruit Market
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Chancery Park - plaque to
Herbert Simms
Herbert Simms was appointed Housing
Architect in Dublin Corporation in 1932
Addressing the chronic housing shortage
in the City at the time, he was responsible
for the design and construction of an
astonishing 17,000 new dwellings, ranging
from schemes of flat blocks in the City
centre to extensive housing schemes of
two-storey cottages in the emerging
suburbs of Crumlin, Cabra and
Ballyfermot. Chancery House, considered
one of the finest of the many innovative
inner-city flat schemes by Simms, is a
small carefully conceived building
containing 27 flats with an adjoining
enclosed garden which was completed in
1935.
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Linenhall
The street names of Linenhall Street
and Yarnhall Street, off Bolton Street,
are reminders that for much of the
18th Century, Dublin was of central
importance to the country’s linen
trade. The linenhall building was
destroyed in 1916 and only the arched
entrance is left. This site was chosen
because of its proximity to the Liffey
and to the inns and taverns on Church
Street and Pill Lane, where many linen
traders lodged while on business in
Dublin. The surrounding street names
of Lisburn Street and Coleraine Street
and Lurgan Street also give clues that
Ulster Protestants lived nearby and
there was a link to Belfast.
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The Chancery Inn
If you want a pub that’s the
Coronation Street of the Markets area,
go to the Chancery any evening. All
the locals go there. Unfortunately it’s
also an ‘early house’ and the residents
are not too happy about that.
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Capuchin Day Centre Bow
Street
“It goes all the way down Bow Street
in inner-city Dublin; a shuffling line of
people that never seems to get any
shorter, because more and more are
constantly joining. There are mothers
pushing buggies, elderly men in neat
coats and scarves, lads with
hoodies…In all, one thousand people
are regularly queuing every
Wednesday morning outside the
Capuchin Day Centre to receive a free
bag of groceries. .”
Irish Times Dec 20th 2010
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St Michan’s Church
Church Street
Mummies and Crypt
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Stained Glass Windows St
Michan’s Halston Street
This church is older than the pro-
cathedral and originally contained
windows by Harry Clarke.
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ABC Fishing Tackle
Mary’s Abbey
Alan Prosser from ABC Fisihing
Tackle is a proper gentleman, and a
great Santa look-a-like to boot. I was
talking to him a while back about the
proposed redevelopment of the area
around his shop. He said the only way
he was leaving was in a box. I like his
style.
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Handball Alley Green
Street
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Walls Newgate Gaol
The walls of the current playground on
Halston Street are the walls of the jail.
Robert Emmett and Oliver Bond were
jailed here. In the centre is a
Republican monument to those who
died.
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Bell on Bow Street
The inscription reads: I TO THE
CHURCH THE LIVING CALL AND TO
THE GRAVE SUMMON ALL
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Mosaic Marking Old
Distillery
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Old Typography
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Secret Tunnel
According to the Annals of Dublin,
there is an entrance here on Cuckoo
Lane to a tunnel which ran under the
River Liffey to Christchurch
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Bullet Holes Four Courts
from 1916 Rising
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Mary’s Abbey Chapter
House
Asking a Dubliner for the location of Saint
Mary's Chapterhouse 1139AD and 99 out of
100 will look at you in confusion. Though
even the names of nearby Abbey and Mary
Streets provide a clue. Just off Abbey
Street you will the last remnants of Saint
Mary's in a backyard, sparsely signposted
in an area suffering from a deluge of signs.
Behind a rather plain entrance steps lead
you down into the basement of a
warehouse. This basement actually is the
old chapterhouse, vaulted and possessing
great acoustics. A testament to the
medieval builder's art, though
unfortunately the Cistercian monks did not
go in for decorations in a big way.
Some of the stones from this building were
used in Essex (Grattan) Bridge
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Green Street Courthouse
Green Street Courthouse is home to
the Irish Special Criminal Court. It was
the scene of many trials including
those of Wolfe Tone, Robert Emmet
and other Fenian leaders. On 19
September 1803, Robert Emmet
delivered a courageous speech which
contained some of the most powerful
oratory of all time. The judge was so
moved that he burst into tears. This
speech became required reading for
aspiring orators in the years ahead
and Abraham Lincoln memorised it in
its entirety.
The stone cylindrical volume to the
right of the Green Street facade is all
that remains of the old Newgate Gaol
which was on this site.
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Fruit Market
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Clifford Antiques
“I call into this shop every time
that I’m in Dublin. It’s like an
aladdins cave of antiques ,the man
who owns it even arranged to
send my stuff home to
Manchester.. Its well worth a
visit... you never know what you
find... “
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Tattoo Studio
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Capel Street Arcade
previously Quaker Hall,
Bolands Bakery (?) by
Charles Geoghegan
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Blackhall Place
Where lawyers are made….
I said, "there was a society of men
among us, bred up from their youth in
the art of proving, by words multiplied
for the purpose, that white is black,
and black is white, according as they
are paid. To this society all the rest of
the people are slaves.”
Jonathan Swift
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Dublin’s Tuberculosis
Dispensary
Nurse Magrane made 269 visits to TB
patients in their homes on the north
side of Dublin city in April 1916.
During the month, the city's Charles
Street tuberculosis dispensary, close
to Ormond Quay, was notified of 55
new north-side cases to add to the
existing caseload of 567. Her
colleague, Nurse McKenna, visited a
further 153 TB patients.
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