11.06.2025, 11:00 A.M.
Exploring the forgotten north-western quarter of Dublin’s city center, am areas historically dominated by transport infrastructure
like the vanished Broadstone canal Basin harbour, and splendid neo-classical Broadstone railway terminus, with its subtle allusions to ancient Egypt:
an edifice Maurice Craig once described as “the last Dublin building to partake of the sublime”.
Further west again, the historic landscape is dominated by the memories, the traces and remains of late 18th and early 19th century asylums,
hospitals, penitentiaries and workhouses.
Indeed, the North Dublin Union workhouse (the NDU) was once so large, it minted its own currency.
We finish this tour at the new TUD campus in Grangegorman.
Image: "The Foster Aqueduct (formerly at Broadstone, on the route of our walk)
Image engraved c1813, by James George Oben, with later hand colouring"
Practical details:
Meet outside Guud Day café, Upper O’Connell Street, 11AM sharp, Wednesday
10-12 minutes to check tickets and allocate your sound equipment.
Walk commences 11.15AM sharp.
Please note, this is not a loop walk, walk ends at the TUD / DIT campus, 12.45 or 1PM approx.
There are good public transport options back to the
city centre from nearby Stonybatter or the North Circular Road.