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Newbridge Avenue (Irish: Ascaill an Droichid Nua) is a road in the Sandymount district of Dublin which links Herbert Road and Tritonville Road.
In the novel Ulysses, the funeral of the character Paddy Dignam starts here at number 9 and continues on to Glasnevin Cemetery via Tritonville Road.[1][2] The Dignams were said to live at number 9, but the property was, in reality, vacant in 1904.[3]
Both this road and Herbert Road were built across land which once belonged to Haigs' distillery and so it used to be called Haig's Lane.[4] The distillery fields at this location featured in the sensational murder of the Reverend George Wogan in 1826.[5] Construction of houses upon this land then took place in the 1860s.[6]
Due to the Irish property bubble of recent times, properties in this road have risen greatly in value and, in 2006, a house was sold for €2M.[7]
References
- ^ Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman (1989), Ulysses Annotated, pp. 105, ISBN 9780520067455, http://books.google.com/?id=X1fWCCHReoUC
- ^ Clive Hart, Leo Knuth (1975), A Topographical Guide to James Joyce's Ulysses, http://books.google.com/?id=4OupAAAAIAAJ
- ^ Robert Martin Adams (1962), Surface and Symbol, Oxford University Press, pp. 61, http://books.google.com/?id=hti8AAAAIAAJ
- ^ Douglas Bennett (1991), Encyclopaedia of Dublin, pp. 145, ISBN 9780717115990, http://books.google.com/?id=MqxnAAAAMAAJ
- ^ Weston St. John Joyce, Patrick Weston Joyce (1913), The Neighbourhood of Dublin: Its Topography, Antiquities and Historical Associations, http://books.google.com/?id=K40JAAAAIAAJ
- ^ Tom Kennedy (1980), Victorian Dublin, http://books.google.com/?id=almgAAAAMAAJ
- ^ Donnybrook five-bed makes €3.66 million, Irish Times, 03 Mar 2006, http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/property/2006/0302/1140626827623.html
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