Drawing Dalymount THE COLOURING BOOK Drawing Dalymount THE COLOURING BOOK Map of Dalymount Park 1907 II Ordnance Survey of Dublin 1:1056 Sheet 18-26 (Revised 1907), published 1908 Reproduced from a map in Trinity College Library, Dublin, with the permission of the Board of Trinity College Dalymount Park: Drawing Dalymount: Mapping a Unique the Drawing Day Architectural Space The urban village of Phibsborough in north memories it holds. Dalymount Park has been generations of Bohemians fans and team On a cold wet Saturday morning in November We were interested in exploring how Spaces like Dalymount Park are important Dublin is a mix of 1980’s yellow brick shops the home of the Bohemian Football Club since members. Those memories are rooted in specific 2018 over 40 people gathered in Dalymount the process of drawing can engage the in a city; they are rich with architectural and apartments to the east, a controversial 1901. Among the earliest structures on the site places, and place names throughout the stadium Park to draw the architecture of this unique drawer with a unique urban environment. diversity, with socio-cultural history, and place 1960’s brutalist shopping centre to the west, are the terracing to the east of the stadium and evoke memory and history. The drawings in this space. The invitation was open to people of all Drawing requires complex hand eye co- attachment. They reflect the vibrancy of urban and 19th century red brick housing to the north the turnstiles under the Jodi Stand, which are book breathe new life into those place names, ages and drawing experience and attracted ordination, quick decision making, filtering, life and its people. Drawing Dalymount, the day and south. Tucked in behind that Victorian still in use. They were originally designed in the architecture of the stadium and the many those with long term committed arts practices, mark making, image building, knowing when itself and the colouring book, offer a creative housing and imposing modern shopping centre the early 1930’s by football stadium architect, years of stories it has to tell. those who had not drawn in decades and to finish. It involves spending time with the means for people to engage with the city on is Dalymount Park football stadium, home for Archibald Leitch. The stadium has always been children whose fluency put us all to shame. subject, close looking, noticing complexity, their door step. over 100 years to the Bohemian Football Club. in a constant state of flux. The adaptations and People with long, close and generational enjoying detail, exploring the unknown and We hope you enjoy sharing, discovering Dalymount has little presence in the village extensions as well as decay, demolition and associations with the club mixed with those who engaging on a deeper level with the familiar. and colouring-in. and access points are through back lanes off wear and tear have created a complex and had never previously entered the stadium. This exploration and attention is evident in the main roads. Passing through this busy urban fascinating urban space. This colouring book marks a particular time these drawings, which engage us with the Jackie Bourke and Dorothy Smith village the only trace of its existence are the Using photography, interviews and drawing in the stadium’s evolution from the perspective materiality, structure and architectural detail April 2019 towers of the 1960’s floodlights, which loom we set out to map the architectural heritage of a diverse group of people. The drawings of Dalymount Park. incongruously at key points. The drawings and everyday experience of the stadium across explore the myriad structures within the stadium In addition, we can see that the stadium in this book take you into that space and time. We have developed both this playful – from the referee’s changing room to the does not exist in isolation. Through the drawings introduce you to the magnetic character of this colouring book of drawings and Dalymount: Jackie Jameson and Members Bars, from the Dalymount’s intimate relationship to its urban ageing stadium. Bigger Than The Game, a projection of stark TV gantry to the terracing, from the Jodi setting is clear; the spire of St Peter’s church The drawings were made as part photography and text drawn from interviews and Des Kelly Carpets Stand to the floodlights, silhouetted behind the Jodi Stand, St Peter’s of Dalymount Park: Mapping a Unique with people who have rich associations with the most publicly visible part of the stadium and School abutting the pitch, the 1960’s shopping Architectural Space, a project developed by the space. Under Dublin City development arguably the most iconic. centre looming large over the original 1930’s Jackie Bourke and Dorothy Smith. Neither of plans, Dalymount will be demolished and a new Opportunities to share the experience of terracing, the floodlights against the shopping us is an ardent football fan, and neither of us municipal stadium built in its place. Through drawing with other people are rare; drawing centre tower, the rear of houses on Connaught had much knowledge of Dalymount when we the project we sought to capture a moment in mainly takes place in the privacy of an artist’s Street visible behind the Connaught Street began the project. But we were drawn to this time as this landmark space sits poised on the studio and the act of drawing in public is Stand and the old grain silo on the Royal Canal space with its haphazard mix of architectural threshold of transformation. seldom seen. Drawing Dalymount provided an beyond. These structures and juxtapositions structures and detail. We were intrigued by the First built in the early 20th century, today opportunity for people to get together and mark out years of construction, use, evolution, desolate beauty of the physical space, and the Dalymount Park holds strong memories for draw, tapping into a latent interest in drawing. adaptation and change. 2 Pitchside sign. Anne Gannon Terraces and floodlights. Vincent Lambe 3 THIS PAGE Connaught Street Stand, home dugout and TV Gantry. Aidan Hickey 4 OPPOSITE Main entrance, Dalymount Lane. Ciarán Cuffe 5 THIS PAGE Jackie Jameson Bar. Alan Mee OPPOSITE Back of Connaught Street Stand from Connaught Street. 6 Roisín Murphy 7 THIS PAGE Referee’s changing room. Michael Doherty 8 OPPOSITE Lotto results, Members Bar. Michael Doherty 9 10 Jodi Stand with St. Peter’s Church. Vincent Lambe 11 THIS PAGE Floodlights with shopping centre tower. Alex Delaney OPPOSITE End of Jodi Stand, St Peter’s School 12 and floodlights. Alex Delaney 13 THIS PAGE Goals, floodlights, terracing and the shopping centre tower. Nathan Devine 14 OPPOSITE The Des Kelly Carpets Stand with floodlights. Alex Delaney 15 THIS PAGE Rear of houses in Connaught Street, home dugout, TV Gantry, Connaught Street Stand and vomitorium. Michael Doherty 16 OPPOSITE Floodlights, terraces and shopping centre tower. Michael Doherty 17 THIS PAGE Connaught Street entrance, floodlights and terraces. James McGuinness 18 OPPOSITE ‘Commentators Box’ on Connaught Street Stand. James McGuinness 19 THIS PAGE ‘The Bar’, Members Bar with shutters down. Senan Geraghty 20 OPPOSITE Connnaught Street Stand, Connaught Street entrance, floodlights and shopping centre tower. Senan Geraghty 21 22 The Des Kelly Carpets Stand with floodlights. Patrick Cahill 23 THIS PAGE The pitch with the terraces, floodlights, shopping centre tower and Connaught Street entrance. Octavian Fitzherbert 24 OPPOSITE The TV Gantry, under the Connaught Street Stand and behind the Des Kelly Carpets Stand. Octavian Fitzherbert 25 THIS PAGE Rear of houses in Connaught, home dugout, TV Gantry. Julianne Gee Ho 26 OPPOSITE ‘The Peoples’ Club’, Shandon Mills, rear of Connaught Street and pitch perimeter. Julianne Gee Ho 27 ABOVE ‘Camera Gantry’ on Connaught Street Stand. Peter Whelan BELOW Under the Jodi Stand. Peter Whelan 28 OPPOSITE The pitch with seagulls, Connaught Street entrance. Patricia McGloughlin 29 THIS PAGE Terraces, floodlights and shopping center. Debbie Ging 30 OPPOSITE St Peter’s Church from the Des Kelly Carpet Stand. Rebecca Devine 31 32 Map of Dalymount Park 2019. Dorothy Smith 33 Interesting Facts A rich socio-cultural history is woven into the In its heyday Dalymount attracted up to • Bohemians has been a members owned • In 1957 almost 50,000 fans watched Ireland fabric of the built environment at Dalymount 40,000 fans and was ‘the home of Irish football.’ football club since its foundation in 1890 play England at Dalymount Park. Since 1901 it has been home to the But today its impact nationally and locally • The stadium was built in 1901 on a site • In the early 1960’s the famous floodlights Bohemian Football Club, first founded in 1890 has diminished and the stadium has gone into some believe was known locally as Pisser were installed to encourage more by a group of doctors and civil servants. A decline. It is now owned by Dublin City Council Dignam’s Field international games. At the official opening stand out feature of Dalymount is the profound and will soon be demolished, to be replaced ceremony the lights were blessed by Father sense of attachment and belonging felt by fans by a modern stadium, community facilities and a • The Hut pub on the Phibsborough Road was Vincent Allen of Bohemians. new urban public realm. named after the huts where players used to Architecturally Dalymount is a captivating change in the early days • In 1972 Pelé played with his club Santos FC against Bohemians at Dalymount. Santos space. Some of the early built environment • In 1938 President Douglas Hyde was of the stadium was designed by Scottish removed as Patron of the GAA for won 3-2 engineer and self-described ‘factory architect’, attending a soccer match at Dalymount • The players dressing room is the same room players such as Pelé used before and after Archibald Leitch.