Stories about Seán Heuston Bridge
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Changing course - the Liffey within the City
by Annette Black, Wicklow — 31st August 2013
As Dubliners of every class donated their pennies to the cause of the King’s Bridge, there emerged in 1825 another grand plan for the river. The Liffey, having curved snakelike across this terrain since time immemorial, was to be teased onto a new course, here, west of the old city,...
Seán Heuston Bridge
Built in 1828
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The Very Charitable Pig Faced Lady of Dublin
by Annette Black, Wicklow — 31st August 2013
She visited the poor of Dublin accompanied by a retinue of servants, yet the heavily veiled figure never left her carriage but directed the distribution of alms from its shadowy interior. Bare footed children and ragged youths loitered, just close enough for her to hear their derisive snorts and grunts....
Seán Heuston Bridge
Built in 1828
