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20th Century Dublin - old photos, maps, etc.

JupiterKid

I note that there hasn't been an active thread on this forum for old photos of Dublin, especially from the 20th century, for a very long time.

Therefore, I'm starting a new thread on Dublin in the 20th century, a period of dramatic change for Dublin when it underwent profound change in social and economic terms, from a deeply poverty-stricken, peripheral and compact city of circa 300,000 souls in 1900 in the United Kingdom to the large, sprawling capital city of the Republic of Ireland in the midst of the Celtic Tiger economic boom with 1.5 million in its metro area by 1999.

Old photos, old maps, literature, any memorabilia of Dublin during the 20th century is very welcome on this thread.

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JupiterKid

Collapsed tenement buildings on Church Street in the north inner city, September 1913

Seven people were killed in the tragedy which highlighted the appalling living conditions in slums for over one third of Dublin's population at the time.

"These bricks were returning once more to dust, one by one these walls would bulge outwards, crack, collapse into rubble. They were despised and uncared for, like the tenants they sheltered, who lived for the most part on bread and tea and bore children on rickety beds to grow up in the same hardship and hunger".

James Plunkett, Strumpet City (1969)

Credit: Dublin City Photo Archive

JupiterKid

O'Connell Street from the top of Nelson's pillar, 1964

JupiterKid

Crown Alley, Temple Bar, 1974

The former Central Bank building is under construction in the background.

Cyclingtourist

Corner of Dawson Street and Nassau Street circa. 1904 Lawrence Dublin on mount.

JupiterKid

Kurt Cobain of Nirvana in concert at the Top Hat, Dun Laoghaire, August 1991

Cyclingtourist

Ross & Walpole iron works North quays Dublin 1900. Their ironwork still survives in many places round Dublin most notably on the East Pier Howth.

Cyclingtourist

Circa. 1900

Section of above map.

Cyclingtourist

Circa 1930s map of Royal Canal, Dorset St. Lower, Mountjoy Sq, Croke Park area.

JupiterKid

Declassified US KH-7 reconnaissance satellite photo of Dublin Port, February 1966

JupiterKid

Thom McGinty AKA The Diceman (1952-1995) on Grafton Street, 1986

JupiterKid

Grafton Street during its first trial pedestrianisation, October 1971

Cyclingtourist

Sometime in the early post-independence era probably 1920s. Dublin corporation street cleaning vehicle attracting attention in College Green.

Cyclingtourist

A page from 'Public Utility Societies, Dublin Corporation and the Development of Dublin, 1920-1940' by Ruth McManus of The Regional Technical College Dundalk, showing a plan of Gaeltacht Park, Whitehall, Dublin 9. This was one of a number of estates on the northside developed in the 1920s/30s.

JupiterKid

Children on Parnell Square, circa 1950

JupiterKid

Moore Street, 1972

z80CPU

Throughout the movie, clips of Dublin ( 1969 )

https://youtu.be/jobWdI8XYKw?t=141

Cyclingtourist

Travellers parked at the Long Mile Road, Dublin, April 3rd. 1957

Independent Newspapers & NLI photo archieve.

Kaybaykwah

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124440329#Comment_124440329

That’s a nice pic.

Cyclingtourist

Postcards give an idealised image of a city.

Top postmarked 1937, bottom postmarked 1914 showing DMP in foreground.

Top postmarked 1905, bottom unposted

Top St Aiden's CoI church opposite Bishop's Palace in Drumcondra now replaced by house unposted

bottom Cross Guns bridge over Royal Canal in Phibsborough looking north. postmarked 192(?) with George V stamp so pre-independence.

JupiterKid

Turner's Cottages off Shelbourne Road, Ballsbridge, 1965

Hume House is under construction behind the cottages which were demolished in 1971

JupiterKid

Ballymun, 1968

JupiterKid

2FM Beat On The Street, Westmoreland Street, 1995

JupiterKid

Photo of city centre from Busarus, 1968

JupiterKid

Punks on Grafton Street, 1989

John_Rambo

These are great.

JupiterKid

Ronnie Drew & Billy Connolly at the Westbury hotel, 1987

JupiterKid

Hare Krishna devotees chanting at O'Connell Bridge, 1973

L1011

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This is looking towards College Green from sort of opposite the Weavers of Ireland / formerly Subway / formerly Colemans shop; a totally normal direction to look yet looks very alien cause its the opposite direction to how traffic has gone on Westmoreland Street for decades. Took me a while to figure out where it was!

JupiterKid

Aerial photo of Greenhills, 1975

Greenhills Road runs from right to left in upper third of the image.

The M50 motorway runs right through the middle of this location today; note the new factories in Ballymount in the upper part of the photo, new housing under construction in the very large Kilnamanagh estate in Tallaght to the LHS and the recently built Green Park estate to the right.

Tymon Lane runs along the bottom half of the image.

JupiterKid

Newly built East stand, Lansdowne Road stadium, 1983