Genealogy research by Mark Humphrys.
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.
The site of the Thomond garage (the purple building), Haddington Rd, Dublin.
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From
Google street view.
Site of Thomond garage (now occupied by purple building), Haddington Rd, Dublin.
(Left to Right):
1 Victoria Buildings,
site of Thomond garage,
Murray's car rental (now Sixt Car Rental).
Photo 2007.
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and other shot.
(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.
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and original.
Site of Thomond garage. Canal side.
Photo 2007.
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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.
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See other shot
from here.
See
street view.
Photo 2007. From Colm Costelloe.
Used with permission.
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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.
From here.
Hosted at my YouTube account.
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"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".
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