The Pigeon House – Hotels, Barracks and Power Stations

The Pigeon House – Hotels, Barracks and Power Stations

A sketch of the Pigeonhouse Harbour’s history as Dublin’s main packet‑boat station, later barracks and power‑station site, taking in the Green Patch—once a strategic tidal islet and work‑yard for the South Wall— and the famous chimenys and the modern Poolbeg port...
The Poolbeg Peninsula, Dublin

The Poolbeg Peninsula, Dublin

Tracing the Ringsend glassworks’ rise under hospitals-sweepstake backers, its sale and closure under Paul Coulson, speculative boom‑time land deals and Becbay’s collapse, and today’s Poolbeg West SDZ plan for 3,500 homes on the remediated port peninsula. Become a...
Grand Canal Docks, Dublin

Grand Canal Docks, Dublin

  See here for more stories of Dublin City.  See here for more Notes on Grand Canal Docks   *****   Inspirational Outcome   When the Grand Canal Docks opened in 1796, they were hailed as the largest, most cutting-edge docks the world had yet known. Occupying 24.5...
Samuel Beckett’s Roots – Builders of Dublin

Samuel Beckett’s Roots – Builders of Dublin

The Beckett family, of Huguenot origin, were prominent Dublin builders in the 19th-20th centuries, constructing cottages in South Lotts and Ringsend, and elsewhere. William Beckett’s son, Samuel Beckett, became a celebrated writer, commemorated by the Samuel Beckett...
Grand Canal Docks, Dublin

Notes on the Grand Canal Docks

The Grand Canal Docks, opened in 1796, were Dublin’s largest docks, linked to rivers Shannon and Barrow. Key figures include Éamon de Valera (1916 Easter Rising), U2 (formed nearby), Paddy O’Connell (football manager), Samuel Beckett and Aeneas Coffey (whiskey...