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AN INDEX TO 'DUBLIN DOCKLANDS - AN URBAN VOYAGE' (2008)
‘Dublin Docklands - An Urban Voyage’ is a work in progress, commissioned by the Dublin Docklands Development Authority, and due to be completed in the autumn of 2008. This comprehensive, illustrated and readable history will be published as a coffee table book before the close of the year. The book covers the evolution of an area of 1300 acres bordered by Clontarf to the north, the Irish Sea on the east, Ballsbridge and Pearse Street to the south and Amiens Street to the west. Turtle is bringing the history back as far as the 16th century.
By placing his research on line, he hopes others will come upon these pages and perhaps correct any errors and advise of further information or useful anecdotes. Please contact Turtle if you wish to share any tales or have a useful photograph or map.
Here follows the proposed chapters and sub-chapters with draft texts:
CUSTOM HOUSE DOCKS
Place Names - Etymology of the street and bridge names in the CHQ.
The Custom House - James Gandon's Georgian masterpiece.
Carlisle Bridge - James Gandon's short-lived Liffey bridge.
Custom House Characters - James Gandon, Edward Smyth, Napper Tandy, the Hon John Beresford & Joseph Mallagh.
Custom House Quay & Old Dock - The beginning of the riverfront.
Custom House Docks & Stores - George's Dock & the Inner Dock.
Connolly Station - Bringing the railway to the Northside.
Great Northern Railway - Linking Dublin and Belfast.
O'Connell Bridge - The present day successor to Carlisle Bridge.
CHQ in Victorian Times - Every dock has its day.
The chq Building - Formerly known as the Tobacco Store or Stack A.
The Crimean War Banquet - The day Stack A hosted the British army.
The Harbour Master - The one-time hub of Dublin Port.
Jeanie Johnson - The stunning replica of an extraordinary famine ship.
Butt Bridge - The first reinforced cement bridge in Britain or Ireland.
Joseph Mallagh - The Docklands engineer who rebuilt Butt Bridge.
Gandon House - Temporary headquarters of the Port & Docks Board.
Loopline Railway Bridge - Described by Jim Larkin as the 'foulest thing' in Dublin.
John Henry Foley - the Docklands boy who became the greatest sculptor of the Victorian Age.
CHQ in the 20th Century - Air Raids and other mishaps.
The Guinness Barges - The much loved lightes that carried the black stuff.
Busaras -Michael Scott's pioneering modern post-war bus station.
CHDDA - A brief history of the Custom House Docks Development Authority.
The IFSC - A brief history of the International Finances Services Centre.
NORTH WALL
Place Names - Etymology of the streets and roads of North Wall.
North Wall - A historical stroll through the past 300 years.
North Wall Quay - The taming of a river.
George Halpin - the chief engineer of the Docklands.
St Laurence O'Toole's Girl School - The home of the Larrier Girls.
St Laurence O'Toole Church - Matt Talbot's Gothic local.
St Laurence O'Toole GAA Club - The rebellious champs who gave rise to the Drama Society.
St Laurence O'Toole Pipe Band - The Champions of Champions who played in the Lock Out.
The London & North Western Railway Company - aka the LNWR.
The British & Irish Steam Packet Company - aka the B&I Line.
Scherzer Bridges - The innovative rolling lift design from Chicago.
Talbot Memorial Bridge - In memory of an eccentric teetotaller.
Sean O'Casey Bridge - The award-winning pedestrian bridge built in 2005.
The Cill Airne - The last serving ship from the Liffey Dockyard.
Spencer Dock & the Royal Canal - Including the new Bridge and Linear Park.
The Convention Centre - Kevin Roche's innovative conference centre.
The East Link Toll Bridge - Tom Roche's pioneering concept.
Sir John Purser Griffith - the Docklands engineer and pioneering force in the Irish peat power industry.
The 100-Ton Crane - MAN's awesome electric crane.
The 02 - Dublin's new amphitheatre.
Luke Kelly - The Dubliner's extraordinary voice.
National College of Ireland - Joyce O'Connor's legacy.
EAST WALL
Place Names - Etymology of the bridge and street names of East Wall.
The Creation of a Community - Children of the Railways.
East Wall in the 20th Century - Adapting to the new age.
The School Boy Strike of 1911 - Hard times in The Wharf School.
East Wall Characters - Fluther Good and his friends.
Rathborne Candles - Ireland's oldest company and former East Wall stalwart.
East Point Business Park - Dermot Pierce's remarkable legacy.
St Barnabas Church - The Mariner's Church of the LNWR.
Wiggins Teape - The neo-classical tobacco factory.
Sean O'Casey Community Centre - In memory of the playwright.
Rev DH Hall - The Building Parson of St Barnabas's Parish.
Sean O'Casey - The working man's playwright.
Splendid Isolation - Football, Church Funds and East Wall Festivals.
Modern Times - Innovation Parks and Ambitious Plans.
SOUTH WALL QUAYS & GRAND CANAL DOCKS
Introduction
Streetwise - Etymology of the bridge and street names of the GCD.
The Grand Canal & Grand Canal Docks - A New Age for the Southside.
Locks & Graving Docks - The lock-keeper and the builder's docks.
Grand Canal Quay - From Alto to Treasury.
Grand Canal Street & Maquay Bridge - Artichokes, Cats & Dogs and the Bolands Mills.
Boland's Mill & Bakery - The building where Eamon de Valera earned his revolutionary colours.
Boland’s Mill in 1916 - A potted look at the garrison on the Grand Canal.
Charlotte Quay - Bottle-makers and Princesses.
McMahon Bridge & the Tramway Twins - The gateway to Ringsend.
The Coalmen - Bringing the coal from the pit to the fireplace.
Bindon Blood Stoney - the father of Irish cement.
Dublin's Diving Bells - Bindon Stoney's masterpiece.
Samuel Beckett Bridge - Santiago Calatrava's upcoming landmark.
Maquay Bridge - The first bridge of the Grand Canal.
Hanover Quay Gasworks - Lighting the houses of Dublin.
U2 – Text to come.
Grand Canal Square - Liebskind, Mateus, Schwarz together.
WESTLAND ROW & CITY QUAY
Sir John Rogerson - founding father of the Docklands.
Sir John Rogerson’s Quay - from wooden piles to high rise.
The Docklands Authority – Text to come.
The Gasometre - An icon of the Thirties.
Hibernian Marine School - The first building on the Quay.
SOUTH LOTTS, IRISHTOWN, RINGSEND & POOLBEG
Streetwise – Ringsend.
The Golden Age - The impact of the Pigeonhouse Fort
Ringsend Bridge - The elliptical arch is fast approaching its 2012 bicentenary.
London Bridge - The 1857 creation on Bath Avenue about which little is known.
ALSO
The Fun Run
Skyworks
Education
Housing
Lighters & Tugs
Warships
Docklands Hollywood
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PRESS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Among the books used during this prject to date are:
Casey, Christine, ‘Dublin: The City Within the Grand and Royal Canals and the Circular Road’ (Architecture, 2005).
Cox, Ronald H. & Gouldm M.C., Ireland, (Technology & Engineering, 1998).
O’Carroll, Derval, & Fitzpatrick, Sean. ‘Hoggers, Lords and Railwaymen - A History of the Custom House Docks, Dublin’. Custom House Docks Heritage Project, 1996.
De Courcy, J.W. ‘The Liffey in Dublin’. Gill & Macmillan, 1996.
Gilligan, H.A. ‘A History of the Port of Dublin’. Gill & Macmillan, 1988.
Hudson, Thomas N. ‘Admiral William Brown - Master of the River Plate’. Libris, 2004.
Laffan, Michael, The Resurrection of Ireland: The Sinn Féin Party, 1916-1923 (1999)
Liddy, Pat. Secret Dublin. Lincolnwood, Illinois: Passport Books, 2001.
M'Cready, Rev. C.T., Dublin Street Names: Dated and Explained. Dublin: Carraig Books, 1892.
McDonald, Frank, The Construction of Dublin
Moore, Niamh. ‘Dublin Docklands Reinvented - The Post-Industrial Regeneration of a European City Quarter’. Four Courts Press, 2008.
O'Connor, Ulick, A Terrible Beauty is Born
Pelly, Frank, ‘Founding Father of the Irish Lighthouse Service’ , F BEAM (2004-2005 edition)
St. Andrew’s Heritage Project. ‘Along the Quays and Cobblestones - Folklore of the South Docks Community’. Saint Andrew’s Resource Centre, 1992.
St. Andrew’s Heritage Project. ‘Journeys from the Steyne - An Historical Portrait of the Westland Row / City Quay Community’. Saint Andrew’s Resource Centre.
Skempton, A.W., A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland (Thomas Telford, 2002). This biographical reference work looks specifically at the lives, works and careers of those individuals involved in civil engineering whose careers began before 1830. The background, training and achievements of engineers over 250 years are described by specialist authors.
Stone, Norman. ‘Europe Transformed 1878 - 1919’. Fontana Press, 1985.
White, Gerry, O'Shea, Brendan & Younghusband, William, Irish Volunteer Soldier 1913-23 (Osprey Publishing, 2003)
2008 New Irish Architecture 23, AAI Awards 2008, Gandon Editions, Provosts Stable
A Report on Dublin's bridges by Michael Phillips and Albert Hamilton, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Bridge Engineering 156, December 2003 Issue BE4, Pages 161- 179.
Maps
A Survey of the City Harbour Bay and Environs of Dublin on the same Scale as those of London Paris & Rome / by John Rocque Chorographer to his Majesty with Improvements & Additions to the Year 1773, by Mr. Bernard Scale.
Dublin City Map Dublin: ERA-Maptec Ltd., 1992.
1911 census map. Map showing Boland’s Bakery on Grand Canal Street. (Ordnance Survey, 1:2,500 (25 inches to mile), Dublin, sheet XVIII,
Ordnance Survey Ireland. Dublin City and District Street Guide. Phoenix Park, Dublin: Government of Ireland, 2002.
Ordnance Survey Ireland. Dublin City Centre Street Atlas. Phoenix Park, Dublin: Government of Ireland, 1999.
