Dublin City Council have issued the following notice regarding waste collection etc. 

Dublin City Council Waste Management Services 2008 Christmas/New Year Arrangements

Wishing you a Green Christmas & New Year

The Christmas & New Year period is traditionally one of the busiest of the year for our Waste Management Services. In light of this the following arrangements have been specifically organised to cater for the extra demands on our services.

Household Waste Collections - Black and Brown Bins:
There will be no waste collection service on Christmas Day. Collections scheduled for Christmas Day will take place on Saturday 27th Dec 2008.
In addition there will be no waste collection on New Year’s Day. Collections scheduled for New Year’s Day will take place on Saturday, 3rd January 2009.
Waste collections will take place as normal on all other dates.

Green Bin Collections:
Householders whose green bin is full may place additional dry recyclable material beside their green bin on collection day provided it is presented in a safe, neat and secure manner. This extended service will be available to Dublin City Council customers until 31/01/09.

Christmas Tree Collection Centres:
Christmas trees will be accepted free of charge at the following locations from 2nd January to 18th January 2009. (refer to the Bring Centre opening times)

• Windmill Road Bring Centre, Crumlin, Dublin 12
• Gulistan Terrace, Rathmines, Dublin 6
• Unit 7B, Malahide Industrial Estate, Newtown Park, Malahide Road, Dublin 17
• Stanley Street Depot (off Brunswick Street), Dublin 7 (Mon - Fri 8am - 4pm & Sat - Sun 10am - 4pm)
• WEEE Retailer Recycling Centre, Kylemore Park West, Ballyfermot, Dublin 10 (Mon - Fri 9am - 5pm)
• Milltown Car Park, Milltown Road, Dublin 6 
• Sandymount - Car park at Martello Tower, Strand Road, Dublin 4 
• Car park on Clontarf Road - beside the former Traffic School 
• Albert College Car Park
• Mellowes Parks Depot - beside Dublin City Council Civic Centre on Mellowes Road, Finglas (Mon - Fri 8am - 4pm & Sat - Sun 10am - 4pm)
• Ashington, Dublin 7 - Open Space
• Dunard, Dublin 7 - Open Space
• Walkinstown Green - at Church, Bunting Park
• Poddle Park - Kimmage

Glass Banks:
In addition to our Recycling Centres there are over 120 Glass Bank Sites located across the City. Some of these sites also accept plastic bottles, textiles and cans. Please ensure you take bags and boxes home after depositing materials - littering is an offence and may result in a heavy fine.

Bring Centres - Opening Times:

Herzog Park, Orwell Road, Rathgar

Eamonn Ceannt Park, Rutland Grove, Crumlin Closed Sundays

Collins Avenue (Opp DCU entrance)

Oscar Traynor Road, Coolock

Kylemore Park North, Ballyfermot 
Closed Sundays

Gulistan Terrace, Rathmines

Sweeney’s Terrace (Off Ardee Street) 
Closed Saturdays and Sundays

Grangegorman, Upper Grangegorman Road

49-51 Windmill Road, Crumlin

Colaiste Eoin Community Bring Centre, Finglas

On the 28th of October 1718, Alexander Felix (David Penso), Jacob Do Porto, and David Machado Do Sequeira, on behalf of the Ashkennazim leased a plot of land in Ballybough from Chichester Phillips of Drumcondra Castle.

Jewish Cemetery, Fairview Strand

Situated on present day Fairview Strand - this plot of land measuring “half a rood and five perches” or roughly 2,500 square metres was the burial place for the Jews of Dublin up to 1900 when the present cemetery in Dolphin’s Barn was opened. The only burials to take place in the Fairview Strand cemetery after the opening of Dolphin’s Bam took place in 1901, 1908, 1946, and 1958, the last and perhaps most interesting. This burial was unusual in that Maud Jeanette Harris sought and was granted permission to be buried beside her father, Herman Boas in the same grave.

In 1908 Lewis Harris was elected an Alderman of the City of Dublin. Unfortunately the day before he was to be made Lord Mayor he died and was buried in Fairview Strand, beside his wife Juliette. Along the East Wall of the cemetery there is a small plaque which simply states: “To our beloved sister Dinah Minnie” set up by an American solicitor about 1932.

Initially the burial ground in Fairview was rented to representatives of the Jews of Dublin for a period of 40 years. In 1746 it’s officials were threatened with prosecution for the recovery of £7-10-0 rent arrears due on plot. They sought assistance from the Spanish / Portuguese Synagogue in London. They suggested that they should buy the plot. Consequently the plot was bought on the 17th of September 1748 by the London congregation acting through, and in the name of Michael Phillips, Crane Lane, Dublin as a leasehold for 1,000 years at the annual rent of one peppercorn. This entailed payment of £34-10 shillings and the surrender of the 1718 lease.

Michael Phillips reported that part of the wall of the cemetery had collapsed and was in need of urgent repair. This wall had been erected to block out the view from the street and to keep intruders out of the cemetery. Another important consideration was the prevalence of grave robbers and vandals. A sum of £10 to £15 was needed for repairs to the breeze wall. In 1857 a stone wall was built around the cemetery. Also in the same year, 1857 the gate lodge was built and the logo 5618 carved on it. A caretaker has been resident in the gate lodge ever since. Presently the incumbents are a Mr. and Mrs O’Neill. 5618 is the Jewish calendar of 1857. This gate lodge has been designated a listed building by Dublin Corporation since 1991. The house was erected as a permanent replacement for a temporary hut built by the Cohen family in 1798.

The Jewish calendar is based on the Lunar month, with names for each month which date back to the Babylonian captivity of the Jews in 5751 (3760 B.C.).

Regarding the wall around the cemetery, the taking of headstones and some of the bodies in fact, was quite an ordinary occurrence, hence the need for security. A quaint anecdote is told about the headstone of Solomon Cohen which disappeared, and one of his sons on visiting a Christian friend in the area noted that his father was buried in the chimney breast.

Jewish Cemetery gravestones

To-day there are 148 tombstones still standing in the little cemetery (list to come); which are inscribed in Hebrew, and English, with Jewish calendar month of death, plus the birth, age, place of origin of the person. In 1839 the laws of the Dublin Jewish Congregation included one which stated that after every burial, the body should be watched over for a week. More than one person was allowed to watch at a time, but one must be a Jew. The oldest standing tombstone in the graveyard is that of Joseph Wills. Dated 1777, he was known as “Jacob Frenchman” to his friends.

The Cohen tombstones all have a depiction of hands over their remains. The reason for this is to show that they were descendants of the Cohens who were the Priests of Israel and the hands are shown as blessing the people. This custom has still survived. If you go to a Synagogue on Yom Kippur, (the day of atonement) you will see the Cohens, who are the Priests of Israel blessing the community, standing in front of the Ark. There is a headstone in the cemetery to one of the Cohens, who although a very wealthy man spent most of his life in abject poverty. Known as the “Miser Cohen,” in order to confuse his neighbours would fry onions, then open the window and let the smell waft into neighbours houses giving the impression that he was frying steak. When he died he left £45,000, which in mid Victorian times was quite a sizeable fortune. A Cohen does not attend a funeral. Obviously they had to be buried somewhere, so consequently one part of the graveyard is usually devoted to the Cohens. So whenever you go into an orthodox Jewish graveyard, you will always see one section devoted to the Cohens, and you will ahvays know they are Cohens by the two joined hands depicted on the tombstones.

Location of Jewish Cemetery, Fairview

Thanks to ““5618 and all that” for this information.

See also:

• History of Fairview & Marino, from “5618-and-all-that”
• History of the Jews in Fairview & Marino
• History of Fairview & Marino, by Dillon Cosgrove 1909

Fairview Residents’ Association

Cumann Mhuintear Fionnradharc

Dulin City Council have received a planning application from Apex Estates regarding the former Pat O’Donnell site with an entrance at 18 & 20 Richmond Avenue. The site already has permission to build an apartment complex and the new application essentially seeks to add an additional 7 apartments in an extra storey. This essentially seeks to reverse a Bord Pleanála decision removing a storey from the apartment complex to be built there.

Click here to see the full application. It seeks the:

provision of seven additional apartments at third and fourth floors of blocks C & D of already approved residential, office and retail development in four blocks (Reg. Ref. 2717/06 & PL. 29N.220629). The proposed development comprises the following : Block C - 1 No. 2 bed apartment at third floor level and 1 No. 1 bed, 1 No. 2 bed and 1 No. 3 bed apartments at fourth floor level: Block D - 2 No. 2 bed and 1 No. 3 bed apartments at fourth floor level; all with balconies/roof terraces, to provide a total of 99 No. apartments on a site of 0.65 Ha, formerly Pat O’Donnell & Co. premises.

The Residents’ Association has received approaches from residents of Richmond Estate and Richmond Avenue objecting to this proposal.

We decided to object to the proposal. Our objection is as follows:

Re: Objection to Planning Ref.: 4992 / 08

Site at 18 and 20 Richmond Avenue

Proposal: provision of seven additional apartments at third and fourth floors of blocks C & D of already approved residential, office and retail development in four blocks (Reg. Ref. 2717/06 & PL. 29N.220629). The proposed development comprises the following: Block C - 1 No. 2 bed apartment at third floor level and 1 No. 1 bed, 1 No. 2 bed and 1 No. 3 bed apartments at fourth floor level: Block D - 2 No. 2 bed and 1 No. 3 bed apartments at fourth floor level; all with balconies/roof terraces, to provide a total of 99 No. apartments on a site of 0.65 Ha, formerly Pat O’Donnell & Co. premises.

Dear Sir / Madam,

1. Introduction

The Fairview Residents Association aims “to maintain and safeguard the interests of the people of the Fairview area in respect of their holdings, improve conditions and general amenities within the community and to build up a community spirit.”

In this regard, we would like to make the following observations regarding the proposed development above site at 18 and 20 Richmond Avenue. We have had representations from a number of our members who are opposed to this variation as set out above.

It is our view that this planning application 4992/08 essentially seeks to reverse a Bord Pleanala decision which removed a storey from the apartment complex proposed for this site (2717/06). By proposing to add an additional 7 apartments as above this would amount to an overdevelopment of the site. No additional car parking spaces are being provided which would indicate that overall car parking provided is inadequate.

2. Additional Height

The additional height is the main concern here. An Bord Pleanala’s decision should be upheld and this present application should be refused. Balconies and roof terraces are being provided which could interfere with the right to privacy of residents living close by.

3. Overdevelopment of the Site

By adding 7 apartments this would amount to an overdevelopment of the site.

4. Not in the interest of Visual Amenity

This proposed increased height will dominate the surrounding properties and will reduce the quality of life of the residents. It is not in the interest of visual amenity which should be protected by Dublin City Council.

5. Traffic / Parking

This area is a busy area traffic-wise being close to the city centre and Croke Park. If the car parking provided is not adequate for such a development it will cause an increase in problems with parking in the area.

6. “Proper Planning and Sustainable Development of the area”

The primary consideration in adjudicating on any planning application is the “proper planning and sustainable development of the area”. It is expressly provided under Section 34 (1) of the Planning and Development Act 2000 that in making its decision in relation to an application for planning permission the planning authority shall be restricted to considering the proper planning and sustainable development “of the area”. “Of the area” means the local authority must consider the effect on the existing residents/property owners. The residents in the surrounding area are opposed to the variation suggested above by this planning application.

7. Amenity - Threat to the Properties in the Vicinity

Matters relating to “Amenity” are legitimate planning concern. This proposed development will adversely affect the amenity currently enjoyed by the existing residents of surrounding area.

8. Conclusion

As mentioned above in our introduction, the mission statement of The Fairview Residents Association is “to maintain and safeguard the interests of the people of the Fairview area in respect of their holdings, improve conditions and general amenities within the community and to build up a community spirit.” We take this mission very seriously and have an active committee and a very interested membership (which is evidenced by very high attendance at our AGMs etc.). As stated above, it is expressly provided under Section 34 (1) of the Planning and Development Act 2000 that in making its decision in relation to an application for planning permission the planning authority shall be restricted to considering the proper planning and sustainable development “of the area”. “Of the area” means the local authority must consider the effect on the existing residents/property owners.

We ask Dublin ‘City Council to take into account the impact on our members living close to this proposed development when making their decision on Plan No: 4992/08. We enclose the usual fee.

Yours sincerely,

Catherine Dolan LLB
Planning Officer
Fairview Residents Association

Location of development.

The Application Number is 4992/08 and the old reference is 2717/06.

Abraham “Bram” Stoker (8 November 1847 - 20 April 1912) was an Irish writer of novels and short stories, who is best known today for his 1897 horror novel Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known for being the personal assistant of the actor Henry Irving and the business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, which Irving owned.

Early life

He was born in 1847 at 15 Marino Crescent, located today in Fairview, but then in Clontarf, Dublin, Ireland. His parents were Abraham Stoker (1799-1876) and the feminist Charlotte Mathilda Blake Thornely (1818-1901). Stoker was the third of seven children. Abraham and Charlotte were members of the Clontarf Church of Ireland parish and attended the parish church (St. John the Baptist located on Seafield Road West) with their children, who were both baptised there.

Stoker was bed-ridden until he started school at the age of seven, when he made a complete recovery. Of this time, Stoker wrote, “I was naturally thoughtful, and the leisure of long illness gave opportunity for many thoughts which were fruitful according to their kind in later years.”

After his recovery, he became a normal young man, even excelling as an athlete (he was named University Athlete) at Trinity College, Dublin , which he attended from 1864 to 1870. He graduated with honours in mathematics. He was auditor of the College Historical Society and president of the University Philosophical Society, where his first paper was on “Sensationalism in Fiction and Society”.

Early career

In 1876, while employed as a civil servant in Dublin, Stoker wrote a non-fiction book (The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland, published 1879) and became the theatre critic for the newspaper Dublin Evening Mail. In December 1876, he gave a favourable review of the actor Henry Irving’s performance as Hamlet at the Theatre Royal in Dublin. Irving read the review and invited Stoker for dinner at the Shelbourne Hotel, where he was staying. After that they became friends. He also wrote stories, and in 1872 “The Crystal Cup” was published by the London Society, followed by “The Chain of Destiny” in four parts in The Shamrock.

Lyceum Theatre and later career

In 1878 Stoker married Florence Balcombe, a celebrated beauty whose former suitor was Oscar Wilde. The couple moved to London, where Stoker became acting-manager and then business manager of Irving’s Lyceum Theatre, a post he held for 27 years. On 31 December 1879, Bram and Florence’s only child was born, a son that they christened Irving Noel Thornley Stoker. The collaboration with Irving was very important for Stoker and through him he became involved in London’s high society, where he met, among other notables, James McNeil Whistler and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (to whom he was distantly related). In the course of Irving’s tours, Stoker got the chance to travel around the world. In the mid 1890s, Stoker is rumoured to have become a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, though there is no concrete evidence to support this claim. One of Stoker’s closest friends was J.W. Brodie-Innis, a major figure in the Order, and Stoker himself hired Pamela Coleman Smith, as an artist at the Lyceum Theater.

Stoker supplemented his income by writing novels; the best known being the vampire tale Dracula which was published in 1897. Before writing Dracula, Stoker spent eight years researching European folklore and stories of vampires. Although, loosely based on the macabre and cruel character of Vlad Tepes or Vlad the Impaler, a 15th century prince of Wallachia in Transylvania, a region also renowned for stories of vampires and werewolves, Stoker had plenty of material to draw on from early and contemporary Irish history.

The Great Famine (1845-47) and subsequent cholera outbreaks fuelled many stories of horror and of people being buried alive. In Celtic times storytellers were passed on of dreadful tales of the “undead”, those who were destined to wander the earth forever seeking the blood of others. These ghouls were known to have had bad blood or droch fhola (pronounced as druc ula!)

Dracula is an epistolary novel, written as collection of diary entries, telegrams, and letters from the characters, as well as fictional clippings from the Whitby and London newspapers. Stoker’s inspirations for the story were a visit to Slains Castle in Aberdeenshire, and a visit to the crypts under the church St. John the Baptist where Stoker was baptised. The Suicide’s Plot in Ballybough may well have inspired the “stake through the heart” method of vampire killing.

Death

Bram Stoker died in 1912, and was cremated and his ashes placed in a display urn at Golders Green Crematorium. After Irving Noel Stoker’s death in 1961, his ashes were added to that urn. The original plan had been to keep his parents’ ashes together, but after Florence Stoker’s death her ashes were scattered at the Gardens of Rest.

Posthumous

The short story collection Dracula’s Guest and Other Weird Stories was published in 1914 by Stoker’s widow Florence Stoker.

The first film adaptation of Dracula was named Nosferatu. It was directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau and starred Max Schreck as Count Orlock. Nosferatu was produced while Florence Stoker, Bram Stoker’s widow and literary executrix, was still alive. Represented by the attorneys of the British Incorporated Society of Authors, she eventually sued the filmmakers. Her chief legal complaint was that she had been neither asked for permission for the adaptation nor paid any royalty. The case dragged on for some years, with Mrs. Stoker demanding the destruction of the negative and all prints of the film. The suit was finally resolved in the widow’s favour in July 1925. Some copies of the film survived, however and the film has become well known.

Bibliography

Novels

• The Primrose Path (1875)
• The Snake’s Pass (1890)
• The Watter’s Mou’ (1895)
• The Shoulder of Shasta (1895)
• Dracula (1897)
• Miss Betty (1898)
• The Mystery of the Sea (1902)
• The Jewel of Seven Stars (1903)
• The Man (aka: The Gates of Life) (1905)
• Lady Athlyne (1908)
• The Lady of the Shroud (1909)
• The Lair of the White Worm (1911)

Short story collections

• Under the Sunset (1881), comprising eight fairy tales for children
• Snowbound: The Record of a Theatrical Touring Party (1908)
• Dracula’s Guest and Other Weird Stories (1914), published posthumously by Florence Stoker

Uncollected stories

• “Bridal of Dead” (alternate ending to The Jewel of Seven Stars)
• “Buried Treasures”
• “The Chain of Destiny”
• “The Crystal Cup”
• “The Dualitists”; or “The Death Doom of the Double Born”
• “Lord Castleton Explains” (chapter 10 of The Fate of Fenella)
• “The Gombeen Man” (chapter 3 of The Snake’s Pass)
• “In the Valley of the Shadow”
• “The Man from Shorrox”
• “Midnight Tales”
• “The Red Stockade”
• “The Seer” (chapters 1 and 2 of The Mystery of the Sea)

Non-fiction

• The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland (1879)
• A Glimpse of America (1886)
• Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (1906)
• Famous Impostors (1910)
• Bram Stoker’s Notes for Dracula: A Facsimile Edition (2008) Bram Stoker Annotated and Transcribed by Robert Eighteen-Bisang and Elizabeth Miller, Foreword by Michael Barsanti. Toronto: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-3410-7

Thanks to Wikipedia for most of this information.

The 123 bus no longer travels through Marino on its northward journey owing to the health & safety concerns of drivers entering Brian Road.

A number of elderly residents have been affected by this change.

The City Council are now consulting with Dublin Bus & the Traffic Advisory Group in an effort to address the issue. Dublin Bus are seeking extensive parking restrictions to assist two-way bus traffic on Brian Road. The Dublin City Council Traffic Engineer is drafting a proposal for ‘Pay & Display’ permit parking including double yellow lines at various locations to “facilitate parking for residents and improve two-way bus traffic on the road” (quote from Dublin City Council). The proposal for pay & display will, if recommended, be subject to a plebiscite of residents.

Many thanks to Cllr. Aodhán Ó Ríordáin for this information.

Of course that’s not the only problem with the 123: click here for a Fairview resident’s opinion. Marino Residents Association also mentioned it in their Autumn 2008 newsletter.

. . . . Autumn in Fairview Park

Situated in the heart of Fairview between the DART line and River Tolka, this 20 hectare park is noted for its seasonal bedding displays and also features playing fields, a children’s playground and tree-lined walks.

The park is laid out on land reclaimed from the sea adjoining the harbour. Originally a tidal mud flat which was used for landfill in the early 1900’s, the park was developed in the late 1920’s with Bye Laws formally adopted by the Corporation in 1934.

Across the railway line is the Traffic School and all-weather 400 metre athletic track and five-a-side football pitches.

Until recently, the park was very significantly disrupted by the recent Dublin Port Tunnel (DPT) works. It was due to be fully restored and enhanced when tunnel works were completed (due in 2006 but restoration not yet complete). The City Council say that the works will include a new pavilion facility, playground, pathways and planting.

Construction of the DPT began in June 2001 - working from two bases, at Fairview Park and Whitehall, two tunnel boring machines excavated twin tunnels under the north city suburbs. The larger hard rock boring machine arrived in Fairview park in summer 2003 and completed its return journey to Whitehall in summer 2004. By early 2006, tunnel fit-out was complete. During the construction of the cut-and-cover phase, Fairview Park contained an excavation the size of a cathedral.

The reinstatement works will not result in any increase in the number of grass playing pitches in Fairview Park. Dublin City Council, in association with clubs, which currently have lettings on playing pitches at Fairview Park, has made an application for a Sports Capital Grant with regard to a pavilion and all weather pitch/training facility at Fairview Park. It is anticipated that a general assessment of facilities provided in Fairview Park, inclusive of park user views, will be undertaken prior to the commencement of reinstatement operations.

. . . . Fairview Park during DPT construction

Facilities

• Athletics
• Band Performances
• Floral Schemes
• Leisure Walks
• Pavillion
• Playground
• River and Sea

Across the road is Bram Stoker Park at Marino Crescent named in memory of the writer who was born at No. 15 and which was acquired by the Corporation in the mid 1980’s.

Map of Fairview Park. If you can not see this map and are reading this instead please visit our F-M FAQ (Frequenty asked questions) page - but give it 5 seconds or so to load first.

Life Drawing Sessions take place at the Carlton Hall, Shelmartin Ave., Marino every Monday from 11:30 to 1:00pm.

Relaxed, informal sessions. Professional and amateur artists. Poses of short duration. No tuition.

15 euro per session.  Just turn up with your sketchbook!

For further information you can contact Aran McMahon on 087-6716500 or Glen McMahon on 086-2439089

The first Jews to come to Ireland in significant numbers were Morano Jews, that is to say Jews who readily converted to Christianity but practised their Jewish faith assiduously. These Jews came from Spain and Portugal and were believed to have fled the Inquisition. Within a few years there were enough Jews to found a Synagogue, which was situated in Crane Lane. The attitude of the Irish Parliament after the Williamite wars to both Catholics and Dissenters frightened the Jews and made them feel unsafe in the City. They moved north of the Tolka and settled in Annadale about 1718. This little village was connected to Fairview by Ellis’s Lane (Phillipsburgh Avenue). To-day Annadale is a very nice housing estate on Phillipsburgh Avenue.

At one time the Jews of Dublin exceeded a hundred, and their leader was a man named Phillips, who was well known to his compatriots in London. There were Jews in Ireland long before this but they made little or no impact either on the natives, or on their own lives.

Jewish Cemetary, Fairview Strand

The earliest record of Jews coming to Ireland is found in the Annals of Innisfallen, translated by Fr. Dineen. These state papers tell us that “in 1062 five Jews came to Ireland from over the sea, bringing with them gifts to Tordelbach, but were again expelled over the sea”. It is believed that these Jews came from France as there are no records of Jews in England before 1066. There is mention of Jews in Ireland in 1232, when King Henry II put them under the care of his Viceroy here. In 1672, John Brerman, Archbishop of Cashel, stated in a report to Rome, that “among the Non-Catholics resident in Ireland, there are Protestants, Anabaptists, Presbyterians, Quakers, Seekers, (those in search of religion), and a few Jews. It is believed by some historians that the Jews were encouraged to come to Ireland by Oliver Cromwell, who considered their supposed wealth, and reputation for industry, likely to advance the commercial interests of the country, and that with other Non-Catholics, they would form a barrier against the Catholic population. In an extract from the Register of Depositions at Canary dated 18th January 1664, one Gasper Pereria states that on the 8th of March 1662 that “his brother. Manual residing in Dublin is also a Judaiser.” Manual Pereira was one of the first Jews in Dublin who founded the Synagogue in Crane Lane. When he and his brother arrived in this country in 1662, and reported to the authorities, they declared themselves to be “foreign Protestants” which indicates the insecurity of the fledgling Jewish congregation in Dublin.

About the year 1718 the Jewish community of Dublin moved north of the Tolka and settled in Annadale, which at that time was outside the municipal boundary of the City. Other sects that settled in the area around the same time were the Huguenots, who had many fine houses on the Richmond Road, and the Baptists who at one time worshipped in a small chapel at the top of Phillipsburgh Avenue.

Of the “Big Houses in the district from the beginning of the 18th century onwards, the most notable were, Cutaldo (Bushfield), Pemryville (Croydon Park),Ruthville, Annadale House, Rosemount, Woodlands, Woodbine Lodge, Marino House and Tokay Lodge.

Thanks to “5618 and all that” for this information.

See also:

• History of Fairview & Marino, from “5618-and-all-that”
• History of the Jewish Cemetery

F-M prides itself on the use of advanced technology such as our interactive maps, searchability and snapshot previews of links.

When it comes to our images, we have included a very cool tool - Cooliris. Cooliris plugs into your browser and transforms it into a fast cinematic way to explore images on the web. It takes you to a 3-D wall where you can browse all sorts of media.

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Now most F-M pages only contain 1 to 5 images so Cooliris will not make a lot of difference to your viewing experience.  However some pages contain a lot of images: for example this one or Glen McMahon’s visual arts page. You have to look out for the Cooliris arrow on the bottom left of any F-M image. The arrow only appears when you mouse over an image. Click on the arrow & a 3-D wall of that pages images appears.  You can explore it by moving the blue bar at the bottom of the screen.

First you have to download Cooliris for your internet browser. Click here to download Cooliris.

Cooliris works differently with different browsers. This is the F-M assessment of how it works:

• Firefox: excellent experience.
• Internet Explorer: it works but can be a bit flaky.
• Chrome: does not work at all yet.
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• Apple Safari: works on a Mac but not a PC.

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The little village of Fairview which until the end of the 18th Century was known as Ballybough, has down the years seen the coming and going of many varied groups, sects, landowners, scholars, farmers, industrialists, law enforcers, wayfarers and colourful characters.

Croydon Park House at the top of Fairview Avenue (now Richmond Avenue) was once the home of Thomas Clarke, the 1916 treaty signatory and Cathal Brugha lived on Richmond Avenue. Indeed the Fairview area was a hot bed of activity during the 1916 Rising, and many locals gave the supreme sacrifice. The sombre connection with the Ballybough of the day was further emphasised by the presence of the Suicide’s Plot situated on the corner of Clonliffe Road and Ballybough Road. Here it was the practice in the 18th and 19th centuries, to bury suicides, highwaymen and robbers and drive a wooden stake through their hearts, lest their spirits were wont to rise and terrorise the locals. Is it any wonder then that another famous son of Fairview, Bram Stoker wrote such blood curdling stories as Dracula?

Not that the area was particularly known for it’s spirits and spectres, apart from the usual ‘apparitions’ around the many livery hostelries towards the Midnight hour, on the contrary, the name Fairview accurately reflected the splendid view that the area afforded out over the Bay. In fact ‘The Strand’ as it was popularly known up and ’till the building of Annesley Bridge in 1797, was a favourite haunt for the ‘Gentry’ and fashionable nobility of the day to parade their victories, valuables and vanities. Dean Swift and Mrs. Delaney of Delvüle in Glasnevin, were among the regulars who could be seen taking the airs’ on horseback along what is to-day Fairview Strand. The view they would have enjoyed then, was one of an uninterrupted vista of Dublin Bay from Howth Head to the Dublin Mountains on the south, with the thriving Dublin Port thronged with hundreds of sailing vessels of every description and origin.

Another long gone sight which was available to them was the 4 acre island nestling just off the northern shore, roughly where Goulding’s Fertiliser factory was. Clontarf Island as it was called was part of the Vernon estate and was mentioned by historians during the Battle of Clontarf in 1014. Although this ‘landmark’ disappeared from view forever in the worst storm ever recorded by the Port of Dublin in 1844, drowning it’s owner Christopher Cromwell and his ten year old son, another fixture replaced the Fair View, when the Dublin and Drogheda Railway embankment was built across the Bay from Amiens St. to Clontarf Road in 1843. Again in 1954 Fairview was once again overwhelmed by floods, when the Tolka burst it’s banks and left the whole area resembling an eighteenth map of the place, when Mother sea owned most of what we know as Fairview to-day.

The Ballybough / Fairview area had just as any other it’s fair share of tragedy and suffering. Apart from the confiscation of the great monastery of St. Mary’s, and the granting of the lands of Ballybough to the Earl of Desmond and another Géraldine supporter Walter Peppard, renting asunder the harmonious and fruitful relationship the local people enjoyed with the monks for centuries, the predominantly agricultural area felt the full ferocity of Cromwell. One peculiarity of Cromwell which later affected the locality, was his remarkable regard for the Jews. Perhaps he admired their business acumen. He attracted large numbers of them to England and some to Ireland, posing the suggestion among some London Jews the possibility of proclaiming him the Messiah, so apparent was his favour towards them. The arrival of Jews to the Ballybough area coincided with a marked upsurge in the industrialisation of the district.

From the end of the 18th century, and right through the 19th century the area of Ballybough grew more and more as a manufacturing district. This was particularly so in the business of flint glass. There was at one time in the 18th century a glass factory near Ballybough Bridge whose products included “a set of fine lustres for Dublin Castle. Where the Ballybough flats stand today once stood a glass factory that made plate glass for coaches, polished it and exported it to the Continent. Perhaps the most celebrated glass factory to exist in the area was Chebsey’s glass house which produced the magnificent 1,233 piece glass chandelier for the Irish House of Parliament in College Green (now the Bank of Ireland). Murvanney’s Glass factory was another example of the extent of the industry in the district. To emphasise the industrial nature the locality attained in the mid 18th and 19th Centuries, the little lane now known as Esmonde Avenue, was then known as “Factory Lane, “such was the abundance of manufacturing and obviously employment, in the area.

Just as Clontarf Island disappeared in a deluge and floods overwhelmed the Fairview area on the 8th of December 1954, some thirteen years previous to this watery wake, on a gloriously sunny Whit weekend, four German bombs rained death and destruction down on the North Strand just a fin tail away. In that same year a former resident of Fairview who had an inordinate life long interest in the Jews, departed this life. Living as he had done in Stella Maris, 29 Windsor Avenue, (1896-1899), Convent Avenue, (1899), Richmond Avenue, (1899-1900), and Royal Terrace (now Inverness Road), (1900-1901), Fairview; James Joyce had ample Jewish culture and customs to exercise his interest in same.

Besides the glass making factories, there were a number of other industries extant from the 1830’s in the Ballybough / Fairview area. These mostly were concerned with the making of agricultural instruments for the inhabitants of the area, which apart from the Mill at Ballybough, and the glass making industry, was still almost completely rural. There was also a small factory for printing linen which was much admired by the previously mentioned Mrs. Delaney of Delville.

Thanks to “5618 and all that” for this information. Most of my editing is in brackets.