This afternoon.
Eamon De Valera’s 1916 holdout.
Boland’s Mill, Townsend Street, Dublin 2
Was it for this?
Demolition of Bolands Mill will make way for a mix of offices, residential apartments, restaurant, cafe and a cultural exhibition space creating a pleasant and “lively new city quarter”
Harrumph.
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Boland’s Bakery where the treasury building is now is where I believe Dev hung out
Wrong Bolands, Dev was where NAMA now are. All that’s left of that is one screen wall, I believe.
“Was it for this?”
Possibly the first appropriate use of that question here.
Yeah not Dev or 1916 related. Just a big flour silo
Well, this isn’t going to cause the outrage nor clicks that were hoped for
It’s been pointed out on here numerous times before
And to paraphrase Not The Nine O’clock News, “Some of us even remember Boland’s Mills, with the little electric vans scurrying in, down and out again…” And it certainly was elsewhere.
What they all said about Dev and 1916. These are just major contenders for the ugliest derelict buildings in the city, they’re going to restore the nicer stone buildings next to them, and watching this demolition over the weeks is fascinating – and occasionally dramatic!
Em… the building section being knocked is ‘newer’ to the older buildings either side…..
Was that section even there in 1916? I don’t think so…. plse correct me if wrong….
Yeh the awful concrete silos went up in the
1960s I think, and have been empty for years.
Definitely deserve to get pulled down.
Will it have a Wholefoods?
What about the bread, i mean, who will make the bread now.
Or is that a silly question.
Given that talking land, property developers and building.
There will be artisanal bread, made from a starter of husks of 1916 wheat from the silo.
Accompanied by the aroma of barista roasted coffee beans imported on the Asgard.
What about all those 1980’s office blocks that are being demolished at the moment all over Dublin?
It’s remarkable how there isn’t one single voice calling for the preservation of 1980s Ireland. Is it just a matter of time and taste?
No, just taste.
hopefully the new buidlings will be nice, and not like all the other shiny pooholes that popped up during the boom years.
Norman Foster designed I believe.
If only there was some way to find out what a new building will look like before it’s built!
Will they put up a great big dirty sign when it be built, saying, Bolands Mills was once here.
Will they take all the trees, put ’em in a tree museum? And charge all the people a dollar and a half just to see ’em?
I’ll believe the “cultural exhibition space” when I see it.
Cultural exhibition space – expect that to be shelved pretty quick.
Well there goes any chances of a Tate style turbine hall in Dublin. It’s all on you Pigeon House…don’t hold your breathe, the vultures are circling.
More gentrification.
As long as those ex-pat tech workers in Google have somewhere to live and play, sod the rest of us. Are you listening Claudia, Federic, and Ulrike?
Barrow Street/Ringsend Road, Townsend Street is a good bit further up. Not being pedantic like.