Aug 4, 2025
Opened by Éamon de Valera in 1963, the bridge is named after General Seán MacMahon who served alongside Dev at Bolands Mill in the Easter Rising, being responsible for securing Westland Row Train Station. Become a member of Turtle’s History Library to access all...
Aug 4, 2025
See here for more stories of Dublin’s Docklands ***** Walking the Docklands today, many newcomers find themselves looking twice at the name of a street called ‘BLOOD STONEY ROAD’. It all sounds rather grim. However, the road is in fact dedicated to one of the...
Aug 4, 2025
The Hibernian Marine School in Dublin was where seafarers’ sons were educated for about one hundred years between the 1770s and 1872. Become a member of Turtle’s History Library to access all areas, €12/year...
Aug 4, 2025
See here for more stories of Dublin’s Docklands. ***** ‘Now I walk back again. To look at these great walls of blackened bricks. The gas works. Sooty grime and fire in there through these bars. Dark shadows. Men moving with their lighted end of cigarettes.’ The...
Aug 4, 2025
See here for more stories of the Grand Canal Docks ***** The Evolution of Artichoke Road In 1736, a popular Huguenot settler named John Villiboise obtained a lease from Lord FitzWilliam on some marsh-land just east of Merrion Square, at present-day Hogan Place,...
