THE UPPER LEESON STREET AREA RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER

SPRING 2017 ULSARANEWS THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM

Eruption, Leeson Park How many people living in our area to trip on - can be as much as 5 or 6 have stumbled, or even fallen full cms. The roots of the new trees also length, on a pavement outside their lift lumps of sloping concrete across front door? In Dublin 4 and Dublin 6 the path of unwary pedestrians and the question becomes increasingly have even shifted whole granite relevant as year by year the trees, kerbstones sideways into the which were planted to give shade adjacent gutter. This is evident on and character to our streets, distort the west side of Upper Leeson Street the pavements when their roots and in Appian Way where rows of expand. a disease-resistant hornbeam were planted in the 1980s. No one would want to get rid of Inside the trees. Environmentally, and in The greatest problems however have ULSARA updates terms of the freshly filtered air which been caused by some Turkey Oaks they provide, they are the life blood put in as replacement trees in Leeson Planning issues of the city. The City Council fully Park where the road surface is now 20th century buildings appreciates their importance: indeed a deep hole with the dislodged kerb there is a section ‘Trees in the city’ stones standing 40cms above it. Pembroke Park on the web site www.dublincity.ie, In a similar way the roots of maple and the Bolsheviks with a leaflet to download when the trees planted on either side of Bob council has ‘planted a tree outside Mulcahy’s Carnac sculpture in Upper your house.’ People are encouraged Leeson Street have turned a wheel- ULSARA AGM to water it in dry weather and to keep chair access route into something Wednesday 5 April 2017 the area round the roots free from more resembling a children’s at 7.30 pm weeds. adventure playground.

Litton Hall, Wesley House, All this is fine for a new tree in a All this is unnecessary because the Leeson Park new area but what is to be done City Council knows the answer to the Litton Hall is just south of the large when some years after it is planted problem. The broken and dangerous church on the corner of Dartmouth the roots of the tree crack up the pavements are caused because the Road and upper Leeson Street pavement that surrounds it? Many of replacement trees are habitually We urge you to attend, to meet the ULSARA streets have a mixture planted much too close to the top your neighbours and the committee, of old ‘forest’ trees – chestnuts, of the pavement whereas their roots and discuss local issues limes and sycamores - which survive should have been buried - as they from late Victorian times and new were in the past - much deeper into GUEST SPEAKERS replacements recently planted at the the ground. The City Council is Michael Noonan, side of the pavements. aware of this ‘best practice’ and in its Senior Executive Parks Tree Strategy 2016 – 2020, developed Superintendent, Surprisingly it is not the older trees by the Parks Service, has even got Dublin City Council which are causing the problems. Most a video explaining the advantages City Council Tree Strategy frequently the culprits are the newer of the ‘Stockholm deep planting and trees planted within recent memory system’. The Council should follow its since it is their roots that open up the own advice. Frank McDonald, worst cracks across the pavements. formerly Environment Editor, The difference in level - all too easy Irish Times The Future of Dublin P.O. Box 8411, Ballsbridge Dublin 4. www.ulsara.ie ULSARA NEWS Spring 2017 1

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Chairman’s Message WELCOME TO OUR NEW LOOK NEWSLETTER

It is hard to believe that ULSARA will Our 2017 AGM takes place on be celebrating its 50th Anniversary Wednesday 5th April at 7.30pm in Website in 2018. We hope to mark this Litton Hall (Leeson Park) when we milestone in a number of ways, will have two excellent speakers, so www.ulsara.ie including a publication on the history please make a note in your diary. We and development of our area. hope you will join us and enjoy these Please check www. presentations Our founders perceived a threat ulsara.ie for local to the residential character of the If there are any subjects that you information and up-to- ULSARA quarter if the commercial would like us to cover at a future date news on ULSARA centre of the city was allowed to AGM, please let us know. We encroach. Whatever the problems look forward to seeing you there. activities. The site we now face from development, As always your comments and includes links to Dublin they pale when compared to the suggestions are welcome and can ignorance and hostility faced in the be sent to ULSARA, P.O. Box 8411, City Council services 1960s. Ballsbridge, Dublin 4. including Property

Their foresight has allowed us to Flood Protection and continue to maintain and enjoy Who We Are Planning Applications, this beautiful area, containing a The Upper Leeson Street Area further articles on large number of houses that are Residents’ Association was founded of architectural importance, within in 1968. The Association draws its the local area and an easy reach of the city. We feel an members from the catchment area of archive of newsletters obligation to help to perserve the streets, lanes and squares, extending dating back to the Georgian and Victorian heritage of south from the Grand Canal, that are the city and do our best to meet it. adjacent to Upper Leeson Street. 1980s. ULSARA’s activities rely on the The primary aim of the Association annual membership fees. Thus is to promote the conservation #ulsaradublin and preservation of the residential the support of existing and new We invite you to follow members is essential for our future. character and amenities of the The annual membership form neighbourhood, including the us at #ulsaradublin and is enclosed with this newsletter maintenance of green spaces, as welcome ideas on how and gives you the option to pay well as the distinctive Georgian and to make our website and by direct debit if that is more Victorian architectural features of tweets more useful. convenient for you. this area of Dublin.

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ECar and “pump” Grand Parade

Electric Vehicles

As part of the EU emissions behaviour. One of the recognised reduction programme, the Irish barriers to adoption is range Government is targeting 250,000 anxiety: drivers worry that they will electric vehicles (EVs) on Irish Roads run out of charge before reaching by 2020 or approximately 10% of a chargepoint. More and faster Dartmouth Square proposal the national car fleet. While we charging stations may help: currently are seeing increasing numbers of a fast charge station at a motorway Residents of Dartmouth Square are charging stations for EVs on Dublin takes about 20 minutes to charge a greatly concerned with the potential streets, car parks and filling stations, car to 80% capacity and is currently negative impact of a proposed the promised growth in actual EVs available free at 1200 locations. development of the site to the rear of has been less conspicuous. Despite the former Carrolls Building on Grand clear benefits to electric vehicles, For residents who want their own Parade, behind the houses on the some real barriers remain to their charging station, home or on-street west side of the square. adoption before drivers shift in large solutions can be installed and ESB Ecars will install home chargers numbers. This site has recently been acquired for new EV purchasers. These by new owners who lodged a How EVs contribute to are however quite unsuitable for planning application on 1 March for sustainability apartment dwellers since chargers the Irish Nationwide/Carroll’s site are connected to the customer’s An increase in EVs will reduce import between Dartmouth Road and Grand direct power supply and do not dependency on fossil fuels and Parade. This development will include allow for shared access and user contribute to a reduction in CO2 a new six-storey office building and billing. This means that the residents emissions. In a city like Dublin, an will add 10,658 sq. m to the existing of apartments in Ireland – currently EV can drive almostly silently with building. estimated at one-third of Dublin zero emissions, making a major homes – are effectively prohibited difference to residents in terms While the detailed planning from owning an EV. of air quality and noise reduction. application is not available yet, it is clear that this proposed There are also cost benefits: the See www.seai.ie for more development will have a major Sustainable Energy Authority of information. Ireland (SEAI) reports that a plug-in impact on Dartmouth Square, an hybrid electric vehicle reduces fuel Architectural Conservation Area, and costs by 40% and CO2 emissions by 4 and 6 the surrounding area. 60% compared to petrol and diesel Elgin Road Concerns include the visual impact cars. For a normal driver, an EV can of such a development towering reduce transport fuel costs by 74% over the west side of the square, the compared to a diesel car of similar proximity of a highly visible modern size: the SEAI estimates that a driver building to a previously unchanged who commutes about 50km to work historic environment, the shadow daily could save €1,500 in a year by it will cast and the traffic impact in switching to an EV. Electricity from the area both from commuters and publicly accessible EV chargers is Sold at last deliveries for this scale of office currently free and EVs are low-taxed building. at €120 p.a. 4 and 6 Elgin Road have finally been sold. Some other houses on At its closest, this building appears What is stopping uptake? the terrace appear to be rather run- to be about 30 metres from A consumer shift to EVs is hindered down, but It’s a fine street and the houses on the west side of by issues like infrastructure, charge recent restoration has shown what Dartmouth Square, an Architectural point functionality and driver can be done. Conservation Area.

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ULSARA 2017 v4.indd 3 22/03/2017 14:20 THE UPPER LEESON STREET AREA RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER The Dublin City Planning Development Plan 2016-2022

The 2016-2022 Development Plan Uses open for consideration: bed and is the centre of a zone of higher was adopted last September, and breakfast establishments, community building heights. we were pleased to notice that facilities, cultural or recreational our principle objective had been buildings and uses, education, live/ On the question of heights and achieved: the exclusion of Embassy work units, places of public worship, densities, the planners struggle with offices from the Z2 zoning, which restaurants, veterinary surgeries. competing demands: on the one applies to our area. In a sense this hand there is a popular desire that is locking the stable door after The plan has many worthy ambitions: Dublin remain a low-rise city, while the horse has bolted, as so many to address climate change; on the other the need to increase residences in our area have recently creating key district centres as population density is uppermost. been converted to embassy use. We sustainable hubs to anchor outlying Several factors favour the latter: the stress that ambassadorial residences suburbs; consolidating the physical need to curb the outward growth of are welcome here; but the diplomatic development of the city by tackling Dublin, the need to promote a low- offices should, in our view, now brownfield, vacant and under-utilised energy city with walking, cycling and accepted by the City Council, be lands; sustainable neighbourhoods. efficient transport systems, and the located in other zones. Creating green infrastructure and need to cope with the demands of a cultural and social vision all get climate change. In this plan, once The objective for zone mentioned. again, the planners have pushed up Z2 – Residential Neighbourhoods the maximum heights permissible (Conservation Areas) Two features of the plan are and although the councillors denied are as follows: the Strategic Development and their demands in full, the upward Regeneration areas (SDRAs) and trend remains. The planners’ Permissible Uses: buildings for the Key District Centres. The nearest compromise “reaffirms Dublin as health, safety and welfare of the SDRAs are much more plentiful than a predominantly low-rise city with public, childcare facility, embassy the KDCs; the nearest SDRA to our height in limited locations”. ULSARA residential, home-based economic area is at Rathmines crossroads, and remains committed to a low-rise activity, medical and related no KDCs appear our map (map E). policy for our area; tall buildings are consultants, open space, public There is no obvious indication on disruptive here. service installation, residential. map E that Lansdowne DART station

Architectural Conservation Areas

The Dublin City Development to the richness and diversity of its The City Council’s current Plan states that, “Dublin City urban fabric. The street layouts, development plan prioritises ACAs Council will … seek to ensure that architectural features, the form shall be firstly in the historic core development proposals within all of buildings and spaces, civic or of the medieval and Georgian city, Architectural Conservation Areas institutional buildings within set radiating outwards into the adjoining and Conservation Areas complement pieces of urban design together nineteenth-century suburbs. In this the character of the area, including with the large areas of Victorian and regard, we note that the Pembroke the setting of protected structures, Edwardian architecture all contribute Estate/Rathmines Lower & Upper/ and comply with development to the neighbourhood’s character Belgrave Square, as well as Ranelagh standards”. and identity. All of the foregoing Village, are mentioned as a second factors are recognised in the current phase of areas to be assessed for The principal means by which Dublin City Development Plan 2016- ACA designation. Dublin’s historic urban environment 2022. is protected, is set out in the It is ULSARA’s aim vigorously to Planning and Development Acts There are at present twenty-one pursue the early assessment and 2000 - 2010 (as amended) and Architectural Conservation Areas designation of the Pembroke comprises principally the Record of in the city. Between 2012 and 2015, district and other significant historic Protected Structures (section 51) and Dublin City Council designated developments as Architectural Architectural Conservation Areas nine Architectural Conservation Conservation Areas. Such (section 81). Areas, including Mountjoy Square, designation would ensure that Sandymount, Ranelagh Avenue, future development proposals are ULSARA believes that our streets and Belmont Avenue with Mount rigorously assessed and properly and historic buildings contribute Eden Road and most importantly, considered under the criteria that significantly to our area’s unique Dartmouth Square. “they complement the character of identity, and stir the collective the area, including the setting of memory of its many communities protected structures”. 4 ULSARA NEWS Spring 2017

ULSARA 2017 v4.indd 4 22/03/2017 14:20 THE UPPER LEESON STREET AREA RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER Appian Way Modern “The 20th century has development contributed impressive examples Architecture of modern architecture” Bord Pleanala granted permission at the end of November 2016 for a five- ULSARA came into being in 1968. layout of flats was to develop by the storey building of sixteen apartments It aimed to be a campaigning end of the century is demonstrated at the corner of Appian Way and organisation, to protect the by the S-shaped curves and Upper Leeson Street by RGRE J&R character of the area as a continually varied façades of the Appian Ltd. (PL 29S.247070), one residential neighbourhood and Park Lane Apartments, at the of Johnny Ronan’s many companies. - most importantly – to stop opposite end of the park beside the This decision overrides earlier the unwarranted and relentless river Dodder. This development is permission granted by Dublin City acquisition of perfectly good houses a superb design by O’Mahony Pike Council (2554/16) which required for conversion into offices. Our architects completed in 1998. the removal of one floor. The Bord’s area is made up almost entirely decision reflects the new Dublin City of domestic architecture yet here Two office buildings on the edge of our area give cause for concern. Appian Way and there the 20th century has corner site contributed impressive examples of Both are excellent work by major modern architecture that should be architects: the former Carroll’s better known and protected. building on Grand Parade, built from 1962 to designs of Robinson Keefe In Sussex Road, the Mespil Flats and Devane, and Fitzwilton House, and Cherry House are among the the brainchild of Sir Basil Goulding, earliest post-war apartments in the the entrepreneur and art collector, city. They were built for Irish Life built from 1964 on the banks of the from 1951 and are the work of an Grand Canal near Leeson Street Development Plan 2016-2022, which Ulsterman, William J. Convery, chief Bridge. was amended, despite much protest, architect to the company who lived The Carroll’s building is to be to allow new buildings in the ‘Outer at 52 Dartmouth Square. These enlarged with huge additions on City’ of up to 16m in height. symmetrical blocks in rustic brick, with subtle proportions and ‘crittal’ a site to the south (see Grand ULSARA is disappointed by this metal windows, are typical of their Parade, page 3) while FitzWilton decision, as it appears not to have time. House, an architectural monument taken into consideration many of dominating the view towards the the valid concerns of local residents Ardoyne House, built to designs city from Mespil Road, is to be and their representatives, including of John L. Griffith on the edge demolished. Fitzwilton House is ULSARA. of Herbert Park, comes ten years the work of a uniquely gifted team later. It has four flats on each of of modern architects Emanuel We feel that many aspects of the ten stories with two penthouses at Shoolheifer and Don Burley and proposal have not been adequately roof top level. Though the plan of was built by the developer Ronald considered or addressed. These the block - a flattened V - and its Lyon. Its sophisticated assembly include the impact on views on the scale are ambitious, its appearance, of interlocking structures and approach to the city; the disregard as so often in the mid 1960s is dull contrasting concrete stanchions will for established conservation and lacks subtlety. Just how far the be sadly missed. principles; the adverse impact of vehicular access on the existing FitzWilton House amenity of Mitchel House and Courtney House. There is a lack of provision on the site for service or emergency vehicles. Health and safety implications for the public realm of the waste-management plan are ignored. The creation of a subterranean floor of apartments; and the adverse impact of a double basement in an area with a high water table and hydraulic pressure are completely undesirable.

We note that the feasibility of the development still depends on the legal interpretation of a right of way through the grounds of Mitchel House and Courtney House, particularly in relation to the widening of the existing entrance. ULSARA NEWS Spring 2017 5

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Dublin and the Bolsheviks

Following the Bolshevik revolution of described as 1917, representatives from Ireland and extraordinary ‘…a red Russia met in New York, where the flag was borne aloft and Irish delegation agreed to advance the song ‘The Red Flag’ a loan of $20,000 to the new was sung.’ Soviet government. The collateral for this transaction was a cache of Amongst those confiscated tsarist jewels brought to attending the Mansion Ireland and hidden in Dublin at the House were Countess home of Harry Boland during the Markievicz and her Civil War. In 1949, the treasures were distant cousin, Dr returned to the Soviet Union. Kathleen Lynn, both of whom spoke at the Apart from such high-level dealings, rally. The newspaper there were other early links between quotes Kathleen Lynn’s Ireland and the Bolsheviks. While observation ‘…that The Bolshevik, by Kustodiev living in New York, the Irish poet some people were shy Padraic Colum met the Russian of acclaiming Russia, fearing that revolutionary, Platon Lebedev, the cry of anti-clericalism might Smoking on who is said to have helped Colum be levelled against them – a cry The Street travel to Ireland at the time of the that had been raised against men Easter Rising. Using the pseudonym and movements which the British Kerzhentsev, Lebedev published Government had reason to fear.’ Residents have expressed concern numerous works in Russian about at a proliferation of smokers outside Ireland, including ‘Ireland in the The daughter of a Protestant the increasingly numerous office Fight for Independence’ (1936). On clergyman, Kathleen Lynn was a buildings in the area, a result of the a more literary note, ‘The Gadfly’ courageous activist who battled smoking ban within offices. This has a revolutionary tale written by against the social and political been particularly noticeable in the Cork-born Ethel Boole Voynich injustices of her time. Despite the Burlington Road/Baggot Street area, was published in New York in 1897. bars against women’s education, and also in the mews behind. Already popular in Ireland, the she received a medical degree and We have been in touch with several novel was translated into Russian secured a position at the Royal of the building managers in the and became a runaway best-seller Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital. As area, pointing out the nuisance throughout the Soviet Union. chief medical office for the Irish Citizens Army, she disappeared and suggesting that alternative Local connection without explanation from the arrangements might be made for hospital in 1916 to tend the wounded smokers on the roof space or within On February 4, 1918, a mass meeting at City Hall where she was captured. the curtilage, and certainly by in Dublin’s Mansion House was held Returning to Dublin from exile in providing and regularly emptying to celebrate the 1917 Bolshevik England, she became a Sinn Fein cigarette bins. Our approach revolution. The rally was chaired politician and practiced medicine in has been generally well-received by William X. O’Brien, a vociferous Rathmines, where she lived with her and there seems to have been a supporter of the Bolsheviks and life’s partner Madeline ffrench Mullen. noticeable improvement which we founding member of the Irish In 1919, they founded St Ultan’s hope will be sustained. Please let Transport Workers Union who later Hospital for Infants, introducing new us know of any particular hot-spots lobbied for Ireland to grant asylum to vaccines and technology to treat remaining. the exiled Leon Trotsky. both children and women. Despite According to a report in the Irish clashes with Archbishop McQuaid Independent the following day, over medical ethics, she devoted her Best practice and after ‘An enormous crowd besieged time to modernising health care in the Mansion House last night to Ireland. take part in a meeting called to This early supporter of the Bolshevik congratulate the Russian people cause, a maverick in the fight on the triumph they had won for for Irish independence and civil democratic principles. So great was liberties, spent her last days in our the gathering that the Round Room neighbourhood. She died, age 81, at being fully occupied at an early St Mary’s Anglican Home, Pembroke hour, overflow meetings were held Park, September 14, 1955. She was in the Supper Room and outside the buried in Dean’s Grange Cemetery building.’ The meeting was with full military honours. 6 ULSARA NEWS Spring 2017

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The commissioning of artists to paint Herbert Park attractive displays on street furniture has done a lot to dissuade vandals Residents may have welcomed the Management Plan (http://www. from defacing street furniture as well departure of the Web Summit for dublincity.ie/main-menu-services- as adding to general public gaiety. Lisbon if for no other reason than recreation-culture/dublin-city-parks), in the hope that it would mean the on which in 2015 they welcomed Problems remain however, in transfer of the Food Summit from public submissions. ULSARA has particular on boundary walls to Herbert Park as well. And indeed it campaigned in the past for the private property on which ULSARA did not take place there in autumn restoration of the fine pergola, have no remit to work. It is up to 2016. The Big Grill however is now an demolished in 2011, so far without residents whose property has been August fixture. success and we welcome the recent defaced to contact Dublin City appeal by the Irish Georgian Society Council (Litter Hotline 1800 251 500) Meanwhile, Herbert Park has recently for its restoration.(https://www.igs. who are generally helpful in advising got some welcome attention. The ie/updates) . about the removal of offending paint. six new and expanded tennis courts are now in action, the café in the The Parks Department website also

and after pavilion is an asset which will come includes a 2013 presentation by into its own in the summer; and Michael Noonan, Senior Executive the Hive, a multi-purpose space Parks Superintendent, on the is already accommodating yoga Proposed Tree Works and the classes, mum-and-baby yoga, pilates bowling and tennis pavilions and and a stage school. Not everyone changing rooms. Meanwhile drainage however is delighted at the invasion has been improved, the playground of the east section of the park by at the SW corner is being renewed, fast-food stalls. and the lake is partly drained, prior to cleaning it out. Frequent walkers The Parks Department of DCC will have noticed and appreciated website has a lot of info on the Park the path along the Dodder, now including a detailed Draft Report: integrated into the park. Herbert Park, Conservation and ULSARA NEWS Spring 2017 7

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Dodder wildlife A Lesser Egret was spotted in January on the Dodder at Ballsbridge, upstream from the bridge. Mistaken at first for an albino heron it proved to be a real Egret, one of quite a number which, Birdwatch Ireland says, have newly come to our shores, demonstrating in this case the high degree of purity of the river.

A Kingfisher was seen in summer slightly further upstream, alongside Herbert Park, a rare enough visitor to an urban stream and another guarantor of clean water.

Further upstream, and well outside our area, a count of Water Bats took Our Fiftieth Anniversary: Can You Help? place on the Dodder. A National Bat Survey was introduced by an ULSARA’s 50th birthday occurs triangle. Recently we have strongly expert from Bat Conservation Ireland next year. It was in 1968 that opposed the loss of fine houses in in July 2016 at a public meeting in Carmencita Hederman, later a city our area when properties have been the recently-opened Hive Building, councillor, alderman and finally bought for use as embassies. Herbert Park. Lord Mayor, decided with several other active residents, to establish Many of our historic campaigns are There are nine species of bat in the association as an informed chronicled in ULSARA’s committee Ireland and this survey related to pressure group, fighting to retain minutes and papers which are being Daubenton’s Bat, which is an insect- the residential character of our transferred to Dublin City Council fishing water bat. It flies in figures- neighbourhood and to protect Archives for safe keeping and for of-eight about 30-40 cms above the it from the relentless pressure of use by future historians. stream. On the introductory night commercial development. We plan to mark the ULSARA 50- no Daubenton’s Bats were detected though several other species were Over the years the association has year milestone in several ways but principally by publishing a volume identified around the adjacent had many successes. Those with Dodder. longer memories will recall epic to celebrate the history of the area: battles in Leeson Park in the 1970s its buildings, its streets, the famous However, during the survey further and ULSARA’s dogged insistence residents and its changing character upstream Daubenton’s Bats were that a part of the Carmelite convent in the last two hundred years. quite plentiful. Anyone interested grounds in Ranelagh should be Look at our picture of Upper Leeson should consult the excellent ‘Irish Bat preserved as the public park that Street in 1978. It seems a quiet oasis Conservation’ website. is there today. More recently we with few cars, a freshly planted tree Acknowledgment have worked with the City Council on the traffic island and two ladies to save Dartmouth Square gardens sitting on a seat strategically placed ULSARA acknowledges with from obliteration and have given for them to watch the traffic! Please gratitude assistance towards the cost evidence at the oral hearing for the help us to find more pictures like this of printing from Dublin City Council’s planning appeal against unwelcome and other older ones of the Victorian Community Grants scheme. developments in the Ballsbridge and Edwardian eras.

Bloomsday: ‘The Gold Cup and the rank outsider’ by Senan Malony

16th June @ the Leeson Lounge, 8.30 pm Dartmouth Sq: Tea Party 17th June from 3 to 5.30 pm For a witty meditation on Joyce’s integral part of 20th century life in perennial championing of the the area. The shop’s signage on the A bring-your-own picnic party underdog, we hope you didn’t throw façade of 142 upper Leeson Street accompanied by parodies of the Cyclops away your boaters! The event is still draws the punter’s eye, 100 years episode of Ulysses by Cathal Stephens. dedicated to the memory of Joe after it opened for business. Music Other artists to be confirmed with Byrne, whose betting shop was an and Song by Truly Divine. possibly even an open microphone.

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