Family tree - Thomond - The garage

The garage

The garage is long demolished.
The site was a car park.
It is now the site of a new office building.
The ground floor is part of the Milano restaurant in 1 Victoria Buildings next door.

Site of Thomond garage (now occupied by purple building), Haddington Rd, Dublin.
(Left to Right): Murray's car rental, site of Thomond garage, 1 Victoria Buildings.
Photo 2007. Taken from the back (the canal side). See full size.

(Left to Right): Site of Thomond garage, 1 Victoria Buildings, Baggot St Bridge.
Photo 2007. Taken from the back (the canal side).
Light adjusted digitally. See full size and original.

Site of Thomond garage. Canal side.
Photo 2007. See full size.
See other shot and other shot.

Site of Thomond garage. Haddington Rd side.
(Left to Right): 1 Victoria Buildings, site of Thomond garage, Murray's car rental.
Photo 2007. See full size and other shot.

Statue and seat in memory of Patrick Kavanagh, bank of Grand Canal.
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Photo 2006 by Thomas Fitzgerald. From here. See terms of use.
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Photo 2007. From Colm Costelloe. Used with permission. See full size.

Leeson St Bridge traffic camera.
From Dublin City Council.

Movies

Pan from left to right, from Haddington Rd side, showing:
(Left to Right): Site of Parsons' garage, Bridge House, Baggot St Bridge, 1 Victoria Buildings, site of Thomond garage, Murray's car rental.
Size: 6.7 M.

"O commemorate me with no hero-courageous
Tomb - just a canal-bank seat for the passer-by."
- Patrick Kavanagh's poem "Lines written on a Seat on the Grand Canal, Dublin".

• "Every man his price. Well preserved fat corpse, gentleman, epicure, invaluable for fruit garden. A bargain. By carcass of William Wilkinson, auditor and accountant, lately deceased, three pounds thirteen and six. With thanks."
  - From the chapter "Hades" in Joyce's Ulysses.

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