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"Around 25 years ago, sadly the original Sheils buildings in Dublin had fallen into disrepair and were not up to standard.

A developer bought over the original buildings and constructed 27 new houses and apartments, fully up to modern standards."

…and a splendid bicycle! 😀👍

Built in 1868 per the DIA.

Today's word is Ruskinian.

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Also at Archiseek www.archiseek.com

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The Sheils' Institution comprised of 24 self contained almshouses built circa 1869 by Charles Sheils Almshouses Charity for poor ladies. A wealthy merchant from County Down, Sheils devoted his life and money into helping the elderly particularly women after the death of his own wife.

Issued By Order of the Lord Lieutenant from Dublin Castle on September 12, 1916, the change occurred just five months after the 1916 Easter Rising to streamline telegraph, railway, and military communications with London

We started 1916 on Dublin Standard Time, GMT-25 min. Then in May, Irish Summer Time, GMT+35.

Then GMT.

The 35-Minute Clock Adjustment

The reason the poster instructs the public to put their clocks back by exactly 35 minutes (more precisely, 34 minutes and 39 seconds) instead of a clean 25 minutes comes down to a scheduling coincidence with the end of British Summer Time:
1. In May 1916, the United Kingdom introduced its first-ever Daylight Saving Time ("Summer Time") to ration fuel during World War I. Ireland was forced to move its clocks forward by 1 hour as well, maintaining its 25-minute offset behind London.
2. When the UK prepared to wind its clocks back by 60 minutes to return to winter time on October 1, 1916, authorities decided to permanently assimilate Irish time with British time.
3. To seamlessly erase the 25-minute gap while simultaneously applying the 60-minute winter rollback, Irish clocks only needed to be turned back by 35 minutes (60 minutes - 25 minutes = 35 minutes).

Political Impact

The timing of the law caused significant political friction. Coming just five months after the 1916 Easter Rising, many Irish nationalists viewed the forced synchronization as an act of cultural assimilation and a direct attack on Irish national identity. Prominent republican figures, including Countess Markievicz, openly criticized the abolition of Dublin Mean Time. Despite the historical controversy, the unified time structure was kept intact by the Irish Free State after independence for the sake of synchronized cross-border trade, rail transit, and telegraph communication.

"One Cork Councillor argued in 1916 that changing Ireland's time zone would impact the feeding time of cows “with very disadvantageous results.” ...
... " The change was not well accepted. Countess Constance Markiewicz wrote to a Republican lawyer in England claiming that the Irish people were enraged that English time was being forced upon them. She said that the change, on top of many other things the English had done since the Rising earlier that year, would encourage the Irish people to support Sinn Féin. ... ..."

From - www.irishcentral.com

Per the NIAH:
Freestanding statue, erected 1866,...
This figure of Oliver Goldsmith was made by J.H. Foley.

We have seen lots of Foleys's work including O'Connell the other day

One of a pair with Burke:

17 works at the dia, this is the 2nd chronologically, Burke is a few years later.

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Foley is not in the pic of the O'Connell monument dedication, he died in 1874 before it was finished, completed by his assistant, Thomas Brock

"As I take my shoes from the shoemaker, and my coat from the taylor, so I take my religion from the priest".

Via - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Goldsmith - which has a 2006 photo from almost exactly the same PoV ...