Outside the quaintly-named Travel Centre on Lower Abbey Street, there’s a sign with the old CIE logo. The 1964 logo...
Signage
Shop – 1930s
Available now: A self-guided walking tour around some of Dublin’s 1930s highlights.
Two neon signs, 3 and 67 Upper O’Connell Street, Dublin 1+
I tend to think of The Happy Ring House and Funland’s neon signage as a pair, though with the former’s...
Ghost sign, 97 Parnell Street, Dublin 1+
The name of the “well-known boot and shoe retailers” on 97 Parnell Street is difficult to make out, which is...
Two street signs, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4+
There are at least two good reasons you might notice 19 Raglan Road – it’s the Mexican embassy, and it...
Signage, 1, 2 & 3 Westmoreland Street, Dublin 2+
The convention for numbering addresses spanning more than one building seems to be ‘1-3′, but this sign makes a good...
Signage, 49 Lower O’Connell Street, Dublin 1+
The Confectioners Hall is another nice example of retained signage, closed since 1984 and now occupied by a sports shop....
Sign, Liffey Street Upper, Dublin 1+
This is another ghost sign, on the gable end of a terrace on Liffey Street Upper. It’s a nostalgic favourite...
Sign, Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College, Dublin 2+
Here’s one more detail from the Samuel Beckett Theatre in Trinity. At the peak of the tower’s roof, there’s a...
Ghost sign, 10-12 Lansdowne Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4+
Though it’s been five years since Aon MacDonagh Boland moved out of Lansdowne Road (relocating to James Joyce Street) and...
Ardiff Mahon Printers, Yarnhall Street, Dublin 1+
Yarnhall Street is mostly notable now as one of Dublin’s places named after long-gone industry, though it’s also a shortcut...