merrionsquare

Proposed site for cathedral for Dublin. British Embassy, no. 39 Merrion Sq., burnt down just two years earlier.

After 1974, the park was named after the Archbishop until 2010, when, after the Ryan report, Dublin City Council voted to name it Merrion Square Park instead.

Hard to believe that up to the 1960s access to the park was limited to residents, who used a private key. This square, and others, was built when the south city became fashionable following the construction of Leinster House. There is so much history referenced in this simple shot: the abandonment of plans for the site of a Dublin RC cathedral, the doner honoured at the time, and then his name removed and park renamed. A time of change for the church in Ireland.

Date 05/04/1974, www.irishtimes.com/search/archive.html?q=Archbishop+Ryan&...

That is City Manager Mathew Macken on the left of Dr. Ryan and Fred Mullen an the right (glasses and head bowed)

More information than is necessary about the No. 7 LEYLAND double-decker bus ... ...

Chassis - 494312
Type - OPD2/1
Registration - ZJ4408
Body Number - CIE
Seating - H36/30R
New - 5/1950
Owner - Coras Iompair Eireann (IE)
Fleet Number - R444

Via - www.buslistsontheweb.co.uk/index.htm?https://www.buslists... , 'Control+f' using "ZJ4408"

2nd thoughts - photo must be after "5/1950" when the bus was new.

Were you only allowed have your goggles down when belting along an open road?

And at least they didn't have to use the other day's boot mechanism to hold their rifles!

Wow! The swish car the motorcycles are escorting is [Z]H1333, seen better in the next photo. And it is still alive and well in Co. Clare. ... ...
"1947 Dodge D24 custom 4-door limousine car, once owned by Eamon de Valera, registration number ZH 1333."

From - claremuseum.ie/explore/objects/1947-dodge-d24-custom-4-do...

Edit - The Clare Museum link above has a great history and details of the car. 👀

beachcomber australia Thank you. Date amended.

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&...