22 Facts About Portobello Dublin

1.

Name Portobello Dublin describes the stretch of the Grand Canal leading from Robert Emmet Bridge to the bridge from South Richmond Street to Rathmines.

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2.

Nearby Portobello Dublin Barracks was constructed between 1810 and 1815, and has been in continual use since then.

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3.

Portobello Dublin had been poisoned with Hydrogen cyanide, which Mrs Marshall had purchased in Rathmines a few days previously.

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4.

Portobello Dublin Barracks was, up until the 1916 Rising, the home of the 4th Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers, which was under the command of John Henry Patterson.

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5.

Portobello Dublin was acquired in 1925 by Charles Algernon Parsons and renamed Sir Howard Grubb, Parsons and Co.

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6.

That year the long-awaited improvements to Portobello Dublin Bridge were carried out, the Tramway Company paying one third of the total cost of £300.

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7.

Across the road from Portobello Dublin Gardens was the Emorville Estate, which was sold and developed from around the mid-1860s by Joseph Kelly, proprietor of the City Saw Mills in Thomas Street.

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8.

Portobello Dublin had a cricket team of its own, but the location of its grounds has yet to be discovered.

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9.

The remainder of Portobello Dublin Harbour, located next to the Ever-Ready factory, was drained in 1948 and largely filled in.

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10.

Portobello Dublin started a Hebrew class near Kelly's Corner and a synagogue in Camden Street.

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11.

Portobello Dublin's son Harry lived at 32 Charlemont Street and was a well-known soccer-player.

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12.

Portobello Dublin started a dispensary for Jewish women in Bloomfield Avenue and helped found Saint Ultan's Children's Hospital in Charlemont Street.

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13.

Many Muslims now living in the area attend the Portobello Dublin Mosque further along the South Circular Road, and there is a centre in Harrington Street.

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14.

Portobello Dublin College was a private institution established in 1989 and located mainly in Portobello Dublin House.

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15.

Portobello Dublin inspired Edmund Ignatius Rice to found the Congregation of Christian Brothers and the Presentation Brothers with her work for the poor and disadvantaged.

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16.

Portobello Dublin was taken to Portobello Barracks, where he was held as an enemy sympathiser.

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17.

Sir Francis Fletcher Vane, an officer in Portobello Dublin Barracks, tried to have Bowen-Colthurst arrested for murder, and was himself then dishonourably discharged from the army.

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18.

Portobello Dublin then emigrated to Canada, where he lived for the rest of his life.

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19.

Portobello Dublin was consequently sentenced to death at Beggars Bush.

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20.

Portobello Dublin's execution brought widespread condemnation at home and abroad, it was the result of a draconian emergency act introduced by the Irish Free State government, the death sentence for anyone caught armed without authorization.

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21.

Portobello Dublin claimed he was mistaken for his brother and was later found not guilty.

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22.

Portobello Dublin resigned from the army shortly after the shooting and emigrated.

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