Stories about Butt Bridge
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Eucharistic Congress (1932)
by Annette Black, Wicklow — 17th September 2013
There was a time when the man of ‘gentle heart and kindly nature’, Isaac Butt, seemed destined to lose his namesake bridge. The bridge, Dublin Corporation proposed, should lose its status as one of the Liffey’s monuments to Irish revolutionaries and become ‘Congress Bridge’. The Corporation was anxious to commemorate...
Butt Bridge
Built in 1932
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Public Bathing in Dublin
by Annette Black, Wicklow — 10th September 2013
Thickened with sewage, the Liffey sent malodorous vapours into the city air, as did the horse manure on the streets, the tenement cesspits and the unwashed citizens. There was, according to one 19th century visitor to Dublin, no city more in need of baths and wash houses in Europe. And,...
Butt Bridge
Built in 1932
