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Ballyknockan quarry, or more correctly Ballyknockan quarries, [4] are a collection of disused granite quarries in the village of Ballyknockan, County Wicklow, Ireland. [5] [1] [6] From the early 19th century onward, the site was "probably the most important area for supplying cut stone blocks of granite for the construction of many of Dublin city's major public buildings", according to a ...
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Dublin 2, also rendered as D2 [1] [2] and D02, is a historic postal district on the southside of Dublin, Ireland. In the 1960s, this central district became a focus for office development. [3] More recently, it became a focus for urban residential development. [4] The district saw some of the heaviest fighting during Ireland's Easter Rising. [5]
A Picturesque and Descriptive View of the City of Dublin is a set of 25 architectural prints of well-known buildings and views in Dublin, Ireland illustrated by the engraver, watercolourist, and draughtsman James Malton at the end of the 18th century. At the time of drawing in 1791, many of the buildings had been newly constructed and marked a ...
In 2005, the Berkeley Court was sold to developer Seán Dunne for €100 million who also purchased the adjacent Jurys Ballsbridge Hotel and the Towers for €260 million. [4] [5] Dunne had originally envisioned a €1.5 billion development on the site which included a 37-storey skyscraper but this was blocked by planning authorities in 2007. [6]
In 1990, Dunnes closed the drapery shop it had opened on South Great George's Street in Dublin in 1960, which at the time had been one of Ireland's first self-selection drapery shops. [18] Ben Dunne Jr.'s tenure as leader of the family business came to an end in 1992, when he was arrested for cocaine possession in a Florida hotel. [19]
Writing in The Irish Times of Tranchino’s 2010 solo exhibition at the Rua/Red Gallery in Tallaght, Dublin, Ireland, art critic Aidan Dunne stated: "He uses intense yellows, pinks, reds, greens and blues in richly textured, jewel-like masses, often accentuated by strong tonal contrasts. If he wasn’t such a good painter it could all go ...
Grand Canal Dock (Irish: Duga na Canálach Móire) is a Southside area near the city centre of Dublin, Ireland. It is located on the border of eastern Dublin 2 and the westernmost part of Ringsend in Dublin 4 , surrounding the Grand Canal Docks, an enclosed harbour where the Grand Canal comes to the River Liffey .