A Walk to Liberties, Dublin, Ireland - Apr 2017
A Walk in Dublin's Liberties - visiting Dublin's oldest neighbourhood which location outside of city walls allowed for more relaxed laws, hence the name Liberties, also once home to over thirty whiskey distilleries. Visit to Francis Street, Meath Street, Thomas Street, City Gate, Liberties Market and Urban Plant Life - a wonderful garden centre on Cork Street.
The Liberties Dublin - The People We Meet
I’m proud to share episode 17 of The People We Meet. The Liberties.
It’s taken me an age to make it as I've been so busy, but also because the more I work on it, the more I realise how special the area is and I want to make sure I do it justice.
The Liberties is an amazing part of Dublin. There’s a lot of change going on in the area, some of it good, some of it bad and I wanted this episode to be a snapshot in time. There’s a rawness and beauty here that is unique and I hope the area holds onto that.
I’ve lived on the edge of The Liberties for years but it’s only after making this that I feel like I actually know the place.
The people in the piece were incredibly kind, open and honest. A huge thank you to them. They made it.
A huge thank you also to those who have worked on this with me.
I love making episodes about creative people who make something from nothing but there’s way more to life than this... and that’s where I want the next episodes of TPWM go. Focusing on real life.
Final word... TPWM has been an unbelievable way for me to find out what i’m really interested in and I’d highly recommend that you do the same.
Final final word... I too hate those long, overly emotional posts created specifically to get likes. So i’m sorry about this. I’m not a prick. I promise.
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Eamonn Mac Thomais - Dublin, A personal view - The Liberties part 1
Eamonn Mac Thomais, with the help of RTÉ, made a series of these programmes in the late 1970s. These programmes show some less well known spots in Dublin. Some that are no longer around today.
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The Liberties is an area in central Dublin, Ireland, located to the southwest of the inner city.One of Dublin's most historic neighbourhoods, the area is now a centre of enterprise and commercial life in the heart of the city.Today The Liberties is a city neighbourhood of opportunities and innovation, where the heritage of an historic city quarter sits side by side with dynamic media and tech hubs and highly respected medical and education centres.The Liberties Business Area Improvement Initiative is a partnership between Dublin City Council and local businesses and stakeholders to transform the commercial heart of Dublin 8.
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The Liberties Dublin: Take a Fresh Look
Dublin's most historic neighbourhood is getting even better. Be part of a vibrant city district with opportunities across independent retailing, markets, cafes and restaurants, design and craft, tourism and visitor experience.
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Winter Lights Dublin City’ features iconic sites illuminated and animated using customised projections. The projections illuminate City Hall, Trinity College, Liberty Hall, Civic Offices, GPO, The Mansion House, Hugh Lane Gallery, Custom House and Covanta Dublin Waste to Energy Plant in Poolbeg. Projections are live from sunset until 2.00 am. Enhanced Christmas Lights are now also in place on Samuel Beckett Bridge, Millennium Bridge, O’Connell Street and Parliament Street.
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Christmas Memories by Loving Caliber feat. Jaslyn Edgar
My Winter Wonderland by Loving Caliber feat. Revel Day
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the liberties Dublin 1983. Tom hankey Photographs
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Voices - The Liberties,Dublin
voices of the people in the Liberties.
For a Neighbourhood Analysis College Project, September 08.
Big thanks to Albert Tobin, Dawn Parke and all the people involved with this video.
Xmas song in the Liberties - Dublin, Ireland
The Liberties: The Osbournes
George Osbourne, who raised seven daughters in a two bedroomed flat on School Street, reflects on his accomplishments and on the tragedy which later befell his family.
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A series of 12 crafted short films, each focuses on a different character within Dublins Liberties community. It has been described as the documentary film equivalent of a portrait gallery.
The Liberties captures the character and unique humour of the people who live there. The documentary celebrates ordinary lives well lived in The Liberties - Tailor Eugene Fagan sews in a button for an 80 year old customer as they chat; Meath Street butcher Declan Larkin carries quartered cattle into his shop at dawn; Flower Ladies, Phyllis Kavanagh and Mary Hand judge passers by on Meath St; Theyre not going to buy flowers, Theyre not going to buy flowers. Brenda Fricker polishes her Oscar at home, just off the Coombe and recounts the comment from friends; What are you doing living up there, Brenda, Youll be murdered, Youll be killed.
The film was shot, produced and directed by Shane Hogan and Tom Burke and edited by Tom Burke. Original music composition was by Gerry Horan. Audio post-production was by Kevin Breathnach at Avondale Studios. Titles were designed & produced by Lorcan Finnegan and Brunella Cocchiglia at Lovely Productions. The series of films was originally funded by the Arts Council under the Once-Off Project Award in 2008.
Count Tornado | Drop dead twice | The Liberties, Dublin city centre, Ireland | #livemusicdublin
The legendary Count Tornado is rocking Dublin city. He has been very busy working on new material back in Mullingar. His second time to play Drop dead twice, it's one hell of a venue for live music in Dublin. Some of the greatest up and coming Irish bands play here. Count Tornado is teaching the next generation of live musicians how to entertain a crowd in this fab city. Drop dead twice is on 18/19 Francis Street, The Liberties, Dublin.
Cats on Stilts.
Water Meter Shuffle
Electric Sewing Machine
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“Dublin Distilled” – Fallon’s
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POWERS Global Brand Ambassador Michael Carr visits Fallon’s Pub in The Liberties, where he finds POWERS’ centuries-old history is still alive and well in this vibrant community.
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Slideshow: Walking Tour Of The Dublin Liberties
The tour that I went on today was lead by Pat Liddy (who I highly recommend) and sponsored by Dublin City Council (thanks). Toured part of the Liberties and despite the fact that I live not far from the area and despite that I went to Kevin Street College I saw parts of the the city that I never saw before. I will revisit most of the area when the weather is better and I will of course publish some more photographs.
Pat Liddy is a well-known Dublin historian, author and artist who has developed a unique walking tour service for Dublin. Covering the inner city and, by advance request, the coastal villages, waterways, hills and intriguing suburbs, the tours are compiled by Pat Liddy himself based on his years of experience, historical research and the collection of anecdotal and legendary stories of Ireland's Capital City
The Liberties of Dublin, Ireland were manorial jurisdictions that existed since the arrival of the Anglo-Normans in the 12th century. They were town lands united to the city, but still preserving their own jurisdiction. The most important of these liberties were the Liberty of St. Sepulchre, under the Archbishop of Dublin, and the Liberty of Thomas Court and Donore belonging to the Abbey of St. Thomas (later called the Earl of Meath's Liberty). Today's Dublin Liberties generally refer to the inner-city area covered by these two liberties.
Many places in The Liberties still have connections with a turbulent past in which political upheaval or dire poverty were the order of the day. In the 17th century, parts of them became wealthy districts, when the weaving crafts of the immigrant Huguenots had a ready market around the present day Meath Street Market, and a healthy export trade.
In the late 17th century development started in order to house the weavers who were moving into the area. Woolen manufacture was set up by settlers from England, while many Huguenots took up silk weaving, using skills they had acquired in their home country, France. They constructed their own traditional style of house, Dutch Billies, with gables that faced the street. Thousands of weavers became employed in the Coombe, Pimlico, Spitalfields and Weavers' Square.
However, English woolen manufacturers felt threatened by the Irish industry, and heavy duties were imposed on Irish wool exports. The Navigation Act was passed to prevent the Irish from exporting to the whole colonial market, then in 1699 the English government passed the Wool Act which prevented export to any country whatsoever, which effectively put an end to the industry in the Liberties.
A weavers' hall was built by the Weavers' Guild in the Lower Coombe in 1682. In 1745 a new hall was provided, financed by the Huguenot, David Digges La Touche. In 1750 the Guild erected a statue of George II on the front of their hall as a mark of their sincere loyalty. The hall was demolished in 1965.
In the eighteenth century a revival took place by importing Spanish wool into Ireland, which was helped from 1775 by the Royal Dublin Society, but the events of 1798 and 1803, in which many weavers in the Liberties took part, and the economic decline that set in after the Act of Union, prevented any further growth in this industry in the Liberties.
Similarly, the successful growth of the silk and poplin industries, which was supported by the Royal Dublin Society in the second half of the 18th century, was hindered by an act passed by the Irish government in 1786, which prevented the society from supporting any house where Irish silk goods were sold. When war was declared against France under Napoleon and raw materials were difficult to obtain, the silk weavers suffered greatly.
The final blow came in the 1820s when the British government did away with the tarifs imposed upon imported silk products. From this time on fate of the Liberties was sealed and most of the once-prosperous houses became poverty-stricken tenements housing the unemployed and destitute.
The Tenter House was erected in 1815 in Cork Street, financed by Thomas Pleasants. Before this the poor weavers of the Liberties had either to suspend work in rainy weather or use the alehouse fire and thus were (as Wright expresses it) exposed to great distress, and not unfrequently reduced either to the hospital or the gaol. The Tenter House was a brick building 275 feet long, 3 stories high, and with a central cupola. It had a form of central heating powered by four furnaces, and provided a place for weavers to stretch their material in bad weather.
Part of the area was redeveloped into affordable housing and parkland by the Iveagh Trust, the Dublin Artisans Dwellings Company and the City Council in the early to mid twentieth century. The appalling slums, dire poverty and hazardous dereliction have now been wiped away, and only a few scattered pockets remain to be demolished.
O'Connell Street in Dublin, Ireland - Dublin Attractions - A MUST VISIT Famous Street in Dublin
Anyone who has visited Dublin, Ireland, will have walked O'Connell Street - its the main street in the city and has been for many years - claiming its own place in history. Full of locals and tourists - O'Connell Street is often a bus stop for any sightseeing or people looking for a hotel for a weekend in Dublin.
Should we refer to O'Connell street as one of the main places that define the trip to Dublin? Actually, whether you are going out for a walk, jumping on the hop-on hop-off bus tour, or else trying to spot out the most famous magnificent places which you should visit in this city, you will end up stumbling upon O'Connell street for being an old famous one where one could enjoy shopping, go for a walk, or even enjoy some of the old statues for the famous figures which are placed there.
Before coming to the name O'Connell, this street has gone through two different times and dealt with two different names; it was first referred to as Drogheda Street and which was named after Henry Moore, Earl of Drogheda, until it was widened and renamed to Sackville Street after Lionel Sackville, first Duke of Dorset, from the late 1700 until 1924. Eventually, the street was called O'Connell in honour of Daniel O'Connell, a nationalist leader of the 19th century and whose statue stands at the lower end of the street facing O'Connell Bridge.
The reason why we always consider it an important pin on the map of Dublin which tourists will be following is the location of the street, which is found in the heart of Dublin city, the capital of Ireland, and thus brings all those tourists to it. O'Connell street runs through the centre of the city, O'Connell Bridge, Westmoreland Street, College Green and Dame Street, terminating at City Hall and Dublin Castle and is also situated north the River Liffey; so one would definitely come across these places while being in Dublin.
Regardless its location and the different things one could do in this street from shopping to enjoying the nightlife, it is important to mention all the different statues which you will get the chance to come across and see while walking in this street and which come in addition to the famous statue of Daniel O'Connell which stands at the lower end of the street where the O'Connell Bridge is located.
From the different statues that you will manage to come across in O'Connell, there is the William Smith O'Brian which was moved to the street in 1929. There is also the Sir John Gray which is carved entirely of white Sicilian marble. Inside this street you will also come across James Larkin which is an expressive bronze statue atop a granite plinth and on which the birth date on Larkin was written incorrectly but was then written in the right way. There is also the Father Theobald Mathew, Charles Stewart Parnell, and Nelson's Pillar.
There are also some famous and important buildings situated around O'Connell street, such as St. Mary's Pro Cathedral, the Rotunda Hospital, Trinity college ( and the Bank of Ireland.
The old O'Connell street is not like the modern one in regards of its wideness and the shops found in it. There were other things done to the place and which are related to removing things and substituting them with others, such as the removal of all the London Plane trees and the installation of over 200 replacement of various species and lots of other things which were done as some kind of trying to correct the wrong things done in the past and turning this street into a more modernized place for people to walk, enjoy their times, and at the same time come across different statues and public art, since the longest public art in the world is found in O'Connell street.
There are actually lots of reasons why this street is considered a must when it comes to the different popular places and attractions that one will visit and definitely pass by in Dublin, Northern Ireland.
There are different places and landmarks that one will need to visit when it comes to Dublin, the capital city of Ireland, and which are the Dublinia Viking Museum that reveals the history of the vikings and the medieval times ( there is also Grafton street which is considered the number one shopping destination in Dublin ( as well as going to the Merrion Square and walking across its famous garden where the statue of Oscar Wilde is located ( and going to the place where the famous statue of Molly Malone is located to know more about the history behind the song as well as take some pictures with it (
Wondering what to do in Dublin? Add a walk along O'Connell Street into your list, you will probably do it anyway :-)
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Investing in The Liberties Dublin
Liberties Investor Morning on 10th October 2017: an opportunity to showcase the range of investment and enterprise in Dublin's Innovation District.
Eamonn Mac Thomais - Dublin, A Personal View - The Liberties Part 2
Eamonn Mac Thomais, with the help of RTÉ, made a series of these programmes in the late 1970s. These programmes show some less well known spots in Dublin. Some that are no longer around today.
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Wildlife Rescue - Gull reunited with family (The Liberties, Dublin, Ireland)
The Wildlife Unit responded to a case where a gull fledgling had fallen down a chimney and needed our help. This had happened a couple of times before so we installed some chimney guards.
We responded and relocated the gull back to the roof with its family. A very happy ending.
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Dublin 8 from the air (4K drone footage) - Part 2 - Jun 2017
Dublin 8 - a postcode, a south-western part of greater City Centre of Dublin City. Neighbourhoods featured - The Liberties, The Coombe, Maryland, Rialto, Kilmainham. Recorded in June 2017. Enjoy.
Dublin's Liberties
A trip around around The Liberties in Dublin with some music I edited.
Dublin ghetto tour
Council housing low income estate flats slums of inner city Dublin, Ireland. Pics taken from places such as ballymun, summerhill, sheriff street, clondalkin, finglas, ballyfermot, tallaght, liberties, o devany gardens, st michaels estate, inchicore, bluebell, crumlin, drimnagh, dolphins barn, fatima, james street. blanchardstown, neilstown, corduff, bawnogue, basin street, pearse street, balcurris, dunsink lane, coolock, darndale, cherry orchard.
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