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[RootsChat]

Mayors and Lord Mayors of Dublin 1229 to 1924
http://web.archive.org/web/20130510101706/http://www.loughman.dna.ie/dublin/lordmayor.html

[Genie72]

Irish Carriage/Cab/Car/Coach/Carriage Makers/Men/Proprietors taken from various Irish Directories i.e. Thoms, Slator's etc.

http://familytrees.eshire.net/whats_new_5.html

[Christopher]

The traditional Dublin industries, such as poplin and silk were located in the neighbourhood of St. Patrick’s Cathedral. These declined at the beginning of the 1800s. Some of the people who had worked in the old industries moved from the area near the Cathedral and went to work in the Docklands where the population
was rising. Cattle yards, coal yards and stables for horses were built near the docks in the 1800s. Two of Dublin's railway stations were also built in that area of the city. The men living there would have been blacksmiths, builders, carters, coalmen, dockers, drovers, labourers and railwaymen.

[Christopher]

There's a good article on the website of Margaret Gowen & Co., Ltd © 2004  about James' Street in Dublin which mentions Peter Sullivan's tannery which was located there in the early 19th Century and the Fountain Head Bell Foundry of Matthew O Byrne which made bells for many cathedrals and churches in Ireland and abroad. Matthew's company cast the five small bells which are in the West Tower of The Basilica of St. John the Baptist in St. John's, Newfoundland. Another Dublin foundry, owned by James Murphy cast the three largest bells.

Some of the bells in Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin were cast by English foundries. In 1670 a ring of six bells hung for full circle ringing were provided by Roger and William Perdue of Bristol in partnership with Irishmen William and Tobias Covey and were rung for the first time in July of 1670. John Kyrcham, a brother of the congregation of Christ Church Cathedral, is said to have cast "three great bells" around 1420. Does anyone know the meaning of the phrase "a brother of the congregation"? Were the men called "brothers of the congregation" and the women "sisters of the congregation"?

Abel Rudhall of Gloucester and Taylor of Loughborough also cast bells for Christ Church Cathedral.

[Christopher]

There were several Calico and Linen Printing businesses in Dublin at the end of the eighteenth century and beginning of the nineteenth century. These included Mr. Duffy's Ballsbridge business, the one owned by Mr. Burton at Islandbridge, another at Harold's Cross and one at Donnybrook which was owned by Mr. Patrick Dillon. There was also one belonging to Messers. Anderson and Son in Love Lane in the city of Dublin.

Source: "A Neglected Branch of Irish Industry (Calico and Linen Printing in Ireland)" from The Illustrated Dublin Journal, Volume 1, Number 33, April 19, 1862.

[Christopher]

Shipbuilding
The Quaker owned Dublin shipyard of Walpole, Webb and Bewley built The Countess of Erne" in 1868.

[Christopher]

A small number of Thomond cars were built in Dublin between 1925 and 1933. The cars were made by James A. Jones who had a garage on Haddington Road. Read "The history
of the Thomond motor car" by Mark Humphrys which also contains photographs of these cars.  http://humphrysfamilytree.com/Thomond/index.html

[Christopher]

The History of Brewing in Dublin www.simtec.us/dublinbrewing/history.html

Builders ... Ross and Walpole who are mentioned on the British Shipyards site were also the builders who did a large amount of work on the Central Hotel in 1887. It was unique at the time as it was made from reinforced cast iron which was a super structure with an outer skin and inner skin. If the name seems familiar there is now a Ross and Walpole pub in Dublin. Whilst the first Guinness barge was built by Harland and Wolff of Belfast another ten were built by Ross and Walpole. Source: Journal of the Sea . http://tinyurl.com/5kx2lg

Printers and Publishers
The Irish Times www.ireland.com/about/p_history.htm

Shipyards ... www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,297042.0.html

[Christopher]

A summary list of Dublin Laundry Co. Records - 1888-1983 available on request.