PARISH NEWSLETTER

DOLPHIN’S BARN PARISH & RIALTO PARISH

October 16th 2016 Vol 1 - Issue 10

MASS TIMES

DOLPHIN’S BARN

Saturday 6:00pm (Vigil) Sunday 9:00am, 11:00am & 7:00pm (Taizé Mass)

Holy Days Vigil 6:00pm & 10:00am

Weekdays: Monday - Saturday (Excluding Tuesday) 10:00am Tuesday: Eucharistic Service - 10:00am

RIALTO Saturday 6:30pm (Vigil) Sunday 10:30am

Holy Days Vigil 6:30pm & 10:00

Weekdays: Monday & Saturday Eucharistic Service 10:00am Tuesday - Friday: 10:00am

Baptisms in Dolphin’s Barn: First Saturday at 12 Baptisms in Rialto: Third Sunday at 12

Contact Information Fr. Fergal MacDonagh P.P. 087-2441128 [email protected]

Fr. Gerry Fleming S.A.C., C.C. 01-4533268 [email protected]

Parish email address [email protected]

Sacristy Dolphin’s Barn 01-4547271 Sacristy Rialto 01-4537720 Rialto Parish Centre 01-4539020

Parish Website

Dolphin’s Barn Parish dolphinsbarnparish.org Rialto Parish rialtoparish.com Spiritual Revival Group Taizé chant choir practice One Solitary October Monthly Gathering Life Friday October 21st He was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman. He grew up in another obscure village, where he worked in a carpenter shop until He was thirty. Then for three years He was an itinerant preacher.

He never wrote a book. He never held public office. He never went to college. He never visited a big city. He never travelled more than two hundred miles SPIRITUAL REVIVAL MINISTRY from the place where he was born. NEXT THURSDAY He did none of the things The vigil service for October will be next usually associated with greatness. He had no credentials but himself. Friday, October 21st in Rialto Church. from 5:30 to 8:45. Thursday 20th October, 8 to 9.15pm, St Paul's While still a young man, the tide of popular Church, Arran Quay, 7. Come and learn opinion turned against Him and His friends The vigil will include Rosary, Worship ran away. some of the latest beautiful chants coming from One of them denied Him. session, family tree healing Mass, the prayer of the brothers of the Taizé He was turned over to His enemies. Adoration, Gospel sharing and Healing Community. Learn the melodies and the and went through the mockery of a trial. session. harmonies. All our young pilgrims and those He was nailed to a cross between two thieves. While dying, His executioners gambled for his who have Taizé prayer groups throughout the clothing For more information on the Spiritual diocese are welcome. The Smithfield stop The only property He had on earth. Revival Movement you can check online is close by and parking in the area is free after www.srmglobal.org 7pm. Organised by the St Kevin's Young Adult When He was dead, He was laid in a borrowed grave, through Community. Follow us on facebook: Taize the pity of a friend Dublin. ITEMS FOR NEWSLETTER Nineteen centuries have come and gone This would be a lovely evening for those who and today Jesus is the central figure of the human race attend Dolphin’s Barn Taizé Mass, on Sunday and leader of mankind's progress. Evenings at 7:00pm I am far within the mark when I say that, all the armies that have ever marched, all the navies that have ever sailed, all the parliaments that have ever sat and all the kings that ever reigned, put together, have not affected the life of humanity as powerfully as that one solitary life. It’s important to remember that the Dr James Allan Francis © 1926. Newsletter goes to the printer on the Tuesday before it’s publication. This newsletter went to the printer last Tuesday 11th October. This notice that you are now reading is being typed on Thursday 6th, During the Georgia V Ireland Soccer match just as Seamus Coleman scored a goal for Ireland. Kathy Scufflil’s very interesting article on Dolphin’s Barn Brick Works, was actually received in late September. The Dublin City Neighbourhoods Competition is an annual competition for Every issue of the Newsletter begins to communities, schools and businesses in take shape a few weeks before. We will do DUBLIN CITY MARATHON 2016 the city organised by . our best to find space for late OCTOBER 30 It is an Area based competition with announcements. The earlier you get it to The main wave of runners will be categories judged initially on an Area basis. The us the better chance it will be printed. best entrants from each of the 5 City Council passing through our parish from 10am administrative Areas are selected to go forward Give items for the newsletter to either Fr. until 12:20pm to a citywide competition. Fergal or Fr. Gerry or send an email to: NO CHANGE TO MASS TIMES IN We congratulate XXXXXXXXX [email protected] RIALTO OR DOLPHIN’S BARN

O SUNDAY MASS TIMES IN NEARBY PARISHES

Donore Ave: 10:00, 11:00, 12:30

Clogher Road: 9:00, 10:30, 12:00

Mourne Road: 9:00, 10:30, 12:00

Meath Street: 10:30, 12:00

Inchicore: 9:00, 11:00

James’s Street: 10:30

Francis Street: 11:30 number of women together with men and Feast Days this coming week How Dolphin’s Barn boys employed in production. Other buildings of note that used and Rialto helped to Dolphin’s Barn bricks in construction were the Jesuit residence, Gardiner St, build a city (extension 1904), houses in the Tenters, Ceannt Fort and at St. Mobhi Road, , the Regal Ballroom, Hawkins Looking at the list of the following buildings, Street, the fire stations at Dorset and few people living in Dolphin’s Barn/Rialto Buckingham Street, the nurses homes at would automatically think that there might the Mater, Dr. Steevens, Adelaide and Monday 17th St Ignatius of Antioch be a connection between these and our Cork St hospitals, the National Gallery of Tuesday 18th St Luke the Evangelist area. Ireland, the Leinster Paper Mills, Wednesday 19th St Paul of the Cross St. Peter’s Church, , the Masonic Hall, Molesworth Saturday 22nd St John Paul II, Mullingar Cathedral Street and the Masonic boys School in O’Connell Schools, Richmond Road . Whitefriar Street School (extension) The best example of local Dolphin’s Barn Trinity College Graduates building buildings using these bricks is the old Guinness Trust John Player & Sons Church Collections - Last Weekend Buildings b u i l d i n g o n t h e Blackrock township South Circular Road. post office and St. Mary’s Church of Dolphin’s Rialto cottage scheme Ireland in Crumlin Barn Old Radio Eireann Village (1942) is Studios GPO reputed to be the First Collection € 450 € last and possibly the The one thing they m o s t a t t r a c t i v e Share Collection € 303 € have in common is p u b l i c b u i l d i n g that they were all built constructed with this Envelope Collection u s i n g b r i c k s material. for September € € manufactured by the With some amount Dolphin’s Barn Brick of irony, the We thank you for your generosity and your financial C o m p a n y . T h i s b u s i n e s s c e a s e d support of your paris c o n c e r n w a s i n when 112 acres of land on which it was production from the early 1890s until it sited were compulsorily purchased to finally closed in 1944. It produced mainly construct the large Drimnagh estate bricks and occasionally other building housing schemes. This left very little of materials like tiles and concrete blocks for the brickworks, reducing it to one kiln and Just going to Church the construction industry in Dublin and a few offices. By 1941, following the doesn't make you a Catholic indeed Ireland at that time. The company death of Mr. Good, long time chairman of was based on the Crumlin Road, close to the company, Hamilton and Hamilton any more than standing in a where the Crumlin shopping centre is today. Auctioneers advertised that the Dublin The associated clay pits extended from Brick Company, having ceased production garage makes you a car to the Iveagh Grounds and wished to auction its entire equipment Slievenamon Road and on towards the including kiln flues and rail sleepers from Suir Bridge to G. K. Chesterton Goldenbridge. The entire site was traversed As a finale, the last buildings to be built by a light railroad that was used to carry of Dolphin’s Barn brick are a mid terrace clay and bricks to and from the company’s of about 20 residences on Mourne Road kilns. Drimnagh, near Brickfields Park. The Drimnagh housing scheme ultimately A young nun at the covered much of the then ‘new’ Loreto former brickworks Convent (1930) gives lands. an insight into the significant impact that Moracrete Ltd (also the Dolphin’s Barn trading as Concrete Brick Company had on Products of Ireland) the local landscape. who manufactured “Beyond Herberton concrete blocks, Lane, an extensive paving slabs and area was occupied by p i p e s c o n t i n u e d the buildings and lands operations at part of the site until the of the Dolphin’s Barn Brick Company. At 1970s and also constructed Moracrete Become more involved. night, the eerie glow from the kilns would cottages on the Crumlin Road, (1936 & Volunteer to be a light up the sky for miles around.” 1950) for their operatives on part of the Eucharistic Minister, or Reader old works. The bricks produced were a yellow biscuit or Join one of the Choirs or Music colour, the older ones had ‘Mount Argus’ The final link with brickworks ceased Groups. imprinted, and the more recent had when Moracrete closed, the site was ‘Dolphin’s Barn’ in the frog of the brick. cleared, and the Crumlin Shopping Centre The Parishes of Dolphin’s Barn and Rialto would Some also contained the initials ‘DBC’ built and opened in 1975. like to increase the numbers of Readers and reflecting the sometimes used alternative Eucharistic Ministers. name ‘Dublin Brick Company’. By 1904 the Dolphin’s Barn Brick Company legacy is output of some 8 million bricks were all undoubtedly the buildings in Dublin and If your would like to volunteer please contact used in Dublin and environs. beyond, as well as the placenames of either Fr. Fergal or Fr. Gerry. Brickfield Drive/Park and Moracrete The brickworks were a huge local employer, Cottages Crumlin Rd. to quote it’s not only for brick-makers, but also for the chairman (1904), It’s good to get involved in your Parish. carters and associated trades such as ‘it was a perfect marvel’. groomsmen, saddlers and farriers. Today, it w o u l d b e r e g a r d e d a s a n e q u a l By Catherine Scuffil opportunities employer, with a considerable