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Oliver Bond flats, also known as Oliver Bond House, is a group of blocks of flats in the Liberties area of Dublin, Ireland. [1] They were designed by Herbert George Simms and built in 1936. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They are named after Oliver Bond , a member of the Society of United Irishmen .
Countess Markiewicz House is a flats complex named after Countess Constance Markievicz in Dublin 2, Ireland. [1] It was designed by Herbert George Simms in an art deco style and was constructed between 1934 and 1936.
Blackhall Place (Irish: Plás Blackhall) [1] is a street in Dublin, Ireland which was laid out in the 1780s on the area which previously formed Oxmantown green. It runs from Stoneybatter in the north to the River Liffey and the James Joyce Bridge .
The Fatima Mansions were an Irish art rock group named after the flats. Speaking in 2021, lead singer of the band Cathal Coughlan agreed that he had a "pang of guilt" for calling the band Fatima Mansions and said that the name of the band was "emphatically not poking fun at poor social conditions that were being foisted upon people in inner ...
Between 1937 and 1939, a scheme of local authority flat complexes was built on the street, now known as the Killarney Street scheme. These were designed by Herbert George Simms. After the clearing of a number of the tenements on the street from number 11 to 17 a Dublin Corporation flat complex, Seán Treacy House, was built in the 1960s ...
The Ballymun Flats referred to a number of flats—including the seven Ballymun tower blocks—in Ballymun, Dublin, Ireland. Built rapidly [ 3 ] in the 1960s, there were 36 blocks in total, consisting of 7 fifteen-storey, 19 eight-storey, and 10 four-storey blocks.
In 2013, Jeanette Lowe, whose maternal grandmother was one of the first residents to be rehomed there, had an installation titled The Flats Pearse House: Village in the City with the National Photographic Archive [2] As part of the installation, flat 3B was restored to its original state, including Corporation green painted walls, a bath in the ...
Chancery House (Irish: Teach Na Seansaireachta) is an apartment building located between Chancery Place and Charles Street West in Dublin city centre. The complex (including its adjoining park) was built by Dublin Corporation as part of a corporation housing scheme in 1934-5. [1]