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12a. The lower Quays, Sailing Ships and other River Liffey Scenes
The front entrance of the Custom House viewed from Tara Street Station.
Commuter train from Drogheda entering Tara Street Station.
A DART train entering Tara Street Station with a view of the Custom House under the mighty railway bridge.
Looking under the Tara Street railway bridge to the Talbot Memorial Bridge of 1978.
The Butt Bridge of 1932 viewed through the Tara Street station railway bridge.
The Custom House of 1791 on Custom House Quay. One of the finest buildings in Dublin.
The views above are from the south side of the River Liffey and below (and top of page) are from the end of Platform 1 of Tara Street Station.
Two contrasting 'statues'
The memorial sculpture of Matt Talbot by the Talbot Memorial Bridge of 1978 over the River Liffey. The sculpture of Matt Talbot (1856-1925)is on the City Quay by the artist-sculptor James Power. He was alcoholic Dublin docker, a good union man, who had a religious conversion and maintained sobriety for the last 40 years of his life. An Irish ascetic, he was awarded venerable status by the Vatican and is an icon of the Irish Temperance Movement. He is revered by many Catholics in Ireland struggling with addiction problems. When he suddenly collapsed and died in a Dublin Street, it was discovered he had kept iron chains around is waist to do penance for his past.
The strikingly simple 'linesman' sculpture on City Quay by Dony MacManus. The linesmen were the men who tied up the ships to the quayside
Looking towards the Matt Talbot memorial bridge and the city centre beyond.
The Sean O'Casey footbridge of 2005.
Some great sailing ships to be seen at the 2009 May maritime weekend on Dublin's River Liffey
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The 'Kathleen & May" was built in 1900 and is a wonderful example of a three masted top sail schooner with a wooden hull.
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The replica three masted famine ship Jeanie Johnson berthed at Queen's Quay. She is registered at Tralee and we last saw her in Dingle Harbour, Co. Kerry in the summer of 2007. The Jeanie Johnston is a replica of a 19th century ship that carried wood from North America to Europe and on return carried 2500 Irish immigrants from Tralee without a single loss of life - quite a remarkable record bearing in mind the loss of life on other overcrowded and unhygienic 'famine ships', many of whom were wrecked as well, BUT not the gallant Jeanie Johnston!
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The Loth Lorien (Lothlorien): This sailing ship was built in Norway in 1907 and probably worked as a herring lugger. She has been refitted as a 3 masted barquentine - schooner. |
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