Outside the quaintly-named Travel Centre on Lower Abbey Street, there’s a sign with the old CIE logo. The 1964 logo...
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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...
Offices, Little Strand Street, Dublin 1+
Little Strand Street is even quieter than its Great sibling, running from Capel Street along the rear of the block...
Wolfe Tone Park, Jervis Street, Dublin 1+
Sitting between Wolfe Tone Street and Jervis Street, Wolfe Tone Park is on the site of the graveyard that was...
Paving, Sackville Place, Dublin 1+
Sackville Place was the site of two of the four bomb attacks that took place in Dublin between late 1972...
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....
Shopfront, 13-14 Sackville Place, Dublin 1+
In the middle of Sackville Place, a surprisingly quiet little street, the Hollywood Academy’s eye-bleedingly vivid cerise front stands out....
Factory, 26 King’s Inns Street, Dublin 1+
From the double-takes by people walking down King’s Inns Street when the doors to Williams and Woods were open, you...
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...
Koningsveld & Zoon, 12 Lower Liffey Street, Dublin 1+
It’s not in good condition, but the facade of the former Koningsveld & Zoon building is still striking above ground...