Oifig and Phoist, Ráth Maonais - Rathmines Post Office
1934 - ?
Save Rathmines Post Office campaign meeting on Wednesday March 20th, 7.30pm in the Uppercross Hotel. Hosted by Peter Dooley, Independent. All are welcome.
Public meeting on Tuesday 26th March at 7pm in Rathmines Town Hall to initiate a campaign to save Rathmines Post Office. Hosted by Ivana Bacik TD - All are welcome to attend.
For some more background on the building see
http://builtdublin.com/rathmines-post-office-upper-rathmines-road-dublin-6/
Our area has an interesting connection with the history of the tradition of shamrock in Ireland. In the late 19th century an amateur botanist by the name of Nathaniel Colgan lived at No. 1 Belgrave Road. It was at this time that he carried out his research to identify which species of plant were commonly used as "shamrock" in different parts of the country. Wikipedia states:
"Colgan is noted for his work in identifying the botanical species meant by the term 'shamrock' in the 1890s. He did this by requesting people from around Ireland send him specimens of what they believed to be an Irish shamrock. After tending these specimens until they flowered, Colgan identified five most common plant species. The most common was yellow clover, followed by white clover, red clover, black medic and finally wood sorrel." [Full article here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Colgan ]
Belgrave Residents’ Association represents:
Annesley Park, Annesley Gardens, Beechwood Park, Belgrave Place, Belgrave Road, Belgrave Square, Belgrave Terrace, Belgrave View, Belgrave Villas, Cambridge Road, Cambridge Villas, Castlewood Avenue, Castlewood Park, Castlewood Terrace, Charleston Avenue, Charleston Road, Church Avenue, Church Lane, Dunville Avenue, Kensington Villas, Killeen Road, Moyne Road (incl. Moyne Court), Oakley Court, Oakley Road (incl. Wellington Gardens), Oakley Square, Ormond Road, Palmerston Court, Palmerston Road, Purser Gardens, Upper Mountpleasant Avenue Nos 32-37, Windsor Road.
between Rathmines and Ranelagh
Congratulations!
Warmest congratulations to Timothy Morahan of Belgrave Terrace, who featured in our recent newsletter, on his two gold medals at the Berlin Special Olympics. For more on this story see
https://www.newstalk.com/news/first-irish-athlete-wins-gold-medal-at-2023-special-olympics-1476683
BusConnects
The Association committee had been actively reviewing the BusConnects proposals affecting the local area. For details of the NTA application see
https://templeoguerathfarnhamscheme.ie/
The notice, which includes details of how to make an observation and the deadline, is at
https://templeoguerathfarnhamscheme.ie/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/Newspaper-Notice.pdf