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    The Wide Streets Commission (officially the Commissioners for making Wide and Convenient Ways, Streets and Passages) was established by an Act of Parliament...
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    patronage. During the 19th century, Sackville Street changed in character from the Wide Streets Commission design into a boulevard of individual buildings...
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    the Grand Canal to the south and east and Aungier, Wexford and Camden Streets to the west. Dublin 3 encompasses areas such as Ballybough, North Strand...
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  • In Ireland the first and best known improvement commission was the Dublin Wide Streets Commission in 1757, which covered the area of Dublin Corporation...
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    The Wide Streets Commission was established in 1757 at the request of Dublin Corporation to govern architectural standards on the layout of streets, bridges...
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    within the term above mentioned." While the rebuilding by the Wide Streets Commission fundamentally changed the streetscape in Dublin, a property boom...
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  • the Wide Streets Commission demolishing many of the narrow medieval streets and replacing them with large Georgian streets. Among the famous streets to...
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    paper street or paper road (also known as an Unformed legal road) is a street or road that appears on maps but has not been built. Paper streets generally...
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    the streets. Partly as a result of the police withdrawal, a wave of looting broke out in the city centre, especially in the area of O'Connell Street (still...
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    Revenue Commissioners, as a meeting place and offices for the Wide Streets Commission and was said to be Dublin's first dedicated office building. The...
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    sculpted Roman galley. The choice of the Sackville Street site was not unanimous. The Wide Streets Commissioners were worried about traffic congestion...
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    was built in 1789 by William Whitton, of Dominick Street, and made its first appearance on the streets of Dublin on 4 November 1791 in an annual event to...
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    architectural context (at the centre of a maze of small buildings and streets) lost due to road-building and the demolition of the older residential...
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    talented orator and a fine writer. He became known for his speeches on the streets of Dublin in support of socialism and Irish nationalism. In 1896, Connolly...
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    along the street. This was supplemented by the widening and rebuilding which took place as part of the work of the Wide Streets Commission, from 1841...
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  • exploded in Dublin city centre at Parnell Street, Talbot Street and South Leinster Street during rush hour. The streets all ran east-west from busy thoroughfares...
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    Ireland from 1789 to 1794. It was one of the last streets laid out by the Wide Streets Commission, with the original plans set out in 1792 by Henry Aaron...
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    church, recorded in 1552 and demolished in 1698. The street was widened by the Wide Streets Commission in 1769 and developed into the city's financial centre...
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    of the Wide Streets Commission. The street was one of the last major interventions in the Dublin city plan to be executed by the Wide Streets Commissioners...
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    [citation needed] The Mall is a Georgian thoroughfare, built by the Wide Streets Commission to extend the city southwards. It contains some of the city's finest...
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    This article deals with the streets and squares in Dublin and the Greater Dublin Area of Ireland. Many streets in Dublin carry names given during the period...
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    section of the street. The street was created during a period of street construction and improvement overseen by the Wide Streets Commission in the 18th...
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    Bridge and subsequently Capel Street. Parliament Street was created in the early 1760s by the Wide Streets Commission to open up a direct route to Dublin...
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    as Dutch Billies, which were demolished and replaced during the Wide Streets Commission. Construction started in 1729. The building was home to the two...
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  • Hall, Skinner Row, a building that was demolished as part of the Wide Streets Commission in June 1762. She then operated from Temple Bar from 1763 to 1767...
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    Thomas Sherrard of the Wide Streets Commission in 1789 and approved by the board in 1790, the land on either side of the street was later let as lots for...
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  • of 90 years from 'John Brock of Dublin, Joyner'. The plot measured 20ft wide x 70ft long and warranted an annual rent of £3. 7s. 6d. In 1744 William Rathborne...
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  • traffic volumes, the Wide Streets Commission was established in 1757. It bought houses by compulsory purchase to widen streets or to create new ones...
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    Building, designed by George Halpin in 1815, was approved by the Wide Streets Commission in 1816 and work commenced on this building soon afterwards. Its...
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    until October 1837. The residents of this part of the street petitioned the Wide Streets Commission to have the name changed because of a bad reputation...
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