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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 .
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.
Ballymun is served by a number of Dublin Bus routes to the city centre including the numbers 4, [21] 13 [22] and the 155 [23] while the Go-Ahead Ireland route 220 [24] runs between Mulhuddart and DCU Helix and the 220T runs from Finglas Garda station to Whitehall.
Countess Markiewicz House is a flats complex named after Countess Constance Markievicz in Dublin 2, Ireland. It was designed by Herbert George Simms in an art deco style and was constructed between 1934 and 1936.
Pearse House is a flats complex in south inner city Dublin. [1] It was designed by Herbert George Simms for Dublin Corporation and was built in 1936. [ 1 ] It was designed in an Art Deco style.
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 ...
Dominick Street (Irish: Sráid Dhoiminic) is a street on the North side of Dublin city laid out by the physician Sir Christopher Dominick and further developed by his family after his death in 1743. The lands had originally been acquired by Dominick in 1709.
Ailesbury Road was planned in the middle of the 19th century as a residential road in southeast Dublin, within the Pembroke Township. It was named for George Brudenell-Bruce, 2nd Marquess of Ailesbury, who had married Mary Herbert, a daughter of the Earl of Pembroke. When first built, Ailesbury Road was then the longest straight road in Dublin.