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• A View from Queen’s Bridge (1768)

  

  by Annette Black, Wicklow — 25th August 2013

  In 1768 Vallancy’s Queen’s Bridge opened to the public. The view from the bridge had much changed. From the crest of the newly built bridge follow the line of Arran Quay, Anna Liffey now sturdily embanked.  Neat rows of buildings gaze down upon her. There is here an industrial and...

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  Mellows Bridge

  Built in 1768

• A View from Arran Bridge (1684)

  

  by Annette Black, Wicklow — 25th August 2013

  Dublin yawned and stretched out of a long slump when Charles II was restored to the crown of England, Scotland and Ireland in 1660. There began a flurry of civic and private building championed by James, Duke of Ormonde and led by land speculators and developers, such as William Ellis,...

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  Mellows Bridge

  Built in 1768