Above photos are from a book I received as a Christmas gift last month. Its an excursion booklet for the British Association for the Advancement of Science, which took place in Dublin in 1957. The list of over 20 excursions are listed below.
 All the excursions, click to view |
 Some excursion details. Click to view. |
 | Gerry Mullen on Sloopys, Dublin Night Club, Me… |
 | Brenda Dean on Sloopys, Dublin Night Club, Me… |
 | Audrey Gurtner Hill on Old Adverts #4 – Dublin… |
 | Aine Lambert on Young Dublin Fashion Designers… |
 | Niall Dooley on Early House Pubs, Dublin 2003… |
 | Dave G Kelly (@daveg… on Ireland Now – 1948 Bookl… |
 | william sowerby on Depeche Mode, Dublin 1983… |
 | Gerry Warren on 12 Hairdressers – Dublin… |
I was wondering why they’d include the Unidare factory in a tourist booklet… then I saw it was for the Assocn for the Advancement of Science! Of course, they’d all probably have approved thoroughly of the proposed “development plans” for Dublin i.e. the destruction of many beautiful buildings which was just about to get underway then. Frank McDonald’s great book “The Destruction of Dublin” (1985) detailed it all, including naming many of the culprits. Pity it’s long out of print, and I’ve long lost my own copy. Sad reading.
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