leinsterhouse

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12:25 - what's for lunch?

I studied Engineering there up to my graduation in 1988. I think we may have been the last year before Haughey moved in, in 1991 after big renovations. UCD Engineers relocated to Belfield.

In this Mulligan shot, you can see that the proposed statue of Hibernia surveying the globe (or whatever) was replaced by a hungover engineering student trying to complete a technical drawing assignment:

via David Ramalho ‘No entry’ Reminiscent of the architecture of our former colonial masters

Parke was born in 1857 at Clogher House[2] in Kilmore, County Roscommon, Ireland, and was brought up in Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim. He graduated from the College of Surgeons in Dublin and was appointed to a post in Ballybay, County Monaghan. In 1881 he joined the British Army and served in Egypt[1] as a surgeon. Parke fought to Khartoum in relief of General Gordon in 1885 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Heazle_Parke

Parke campaigned with Henry Morton Stanley on the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. This expedition lasted three years and many were saved from death by Parke's courage and medical skills. He was known as the ' man who had saved Stanley'.[3] He thus became the first Irishman to cross the African continent. During the expedition Parke bought a pygmy girl. They travelled together for over a year and she nursed him through malaria. In the end he was forced to leave her behind because her eyes could not adapt to sunlight after the darkness of the forest. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Heazle_Parke

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Sculptor, Percy Guy Wood. ..erected 1896.

Street view in all his current glory - maps.google.ie/maps?q=kildare+street+Dublin&hl=en&...

Oooh, another fire ladder! marked on the 25" as a Fire Escape. Trees now obscure this aspect in streetview

A set of fire ladders in Kingstown in the archive, and another in Monkstown

In this Bing bird's eye view, you can see that the long building with a skylight at right is the dead zoo.

Dating detail: swan necked lamp-post at left means after 1901 and tram electrification. No actual light on the lamp-post may mean it is during electrification works.

(Unlike many other streets, the swan necked lamp posts are still there in streetview).