Newbridge_Avenue

Newbridge Avenue

Newbridge Avenue

Road

Newbridge Avenue (Irish: Ascaill an Droichid Nua) is a road in the Sandymount district of Dublin which links Herbert Road and Tritonville Road.

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In the novel Ulysses, the funeral of the character Paddy Dignam starts here at number 9 and continues on to Glasnevin Cemetery via Tritonville Road.[2][3] The Dignams were said to live at number 9; the property was, in reality, vacant in 1904.[4]

Both this road and Herbert Road were built across land which once belonged to Haigs' distillery and so it used to be called Haig's Lane; the foundations of the Avenue were constructed with stone which originally came from the Dodderbank Distillery.[5] The distillery fields at this location featured in the sensational murder of the Reverend George Wogan in 1826.[6] A new stone bridge replaced the old wooden toll bridge in the mid-19th century, giving the road the name of "New Bridge Avenue."[1] Construction of houses upon this land then took place in the 1860s.[7]

Due to the Irish property bubble of recent times, properties on this road have risen greatly in value and, in 2006, a house was sold for €2M.[8]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Meyler, Walter Thomas (10 March 1868). "Saint Catherine's bells: : an autobiography". London : Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. ; Dublin: : Robert S. M'Gee, 35 Lower Sackville Street; and all booksellers – via Internet Archive.
  2. [2]
    Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman (1989), Ulysses Annotated, p. 105, ISBN 978-0-520-06745-5
  3. [3]
    Clive Hart, Leo Knuth (1975), A Topographical Guide to James Joyce's Ulysses, ISBN 9780950414812
  4. [4]
    Robert Martin Adams (1962), Surface and Symbol, Oxford University Press, p. 61
  5. [5]
    Douglas Bennett (1991), Encyclopaedia of Dublin, p. 145, ISBN 978-0-7171-1599-0
  6. [6]
    Weston St. John Joyce, Patrick Weston Joyce (1913), The Neighbourhood of Dublin: Its Topography, Antiquities and Historical Associations
  7. [7]
    Tom Kennedy (1980), Victorian Dublin, ISBN 9780906002056
  8. [8]
    Donnybrook five-bed makes €3.66 million, Irish Times, 3 March 2006
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