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  Ringsend - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ringsend is a suburb of Dublin, the capital of Ireland.
Ringsend was originally a long narrow peninsula separated from the rest of Dublin by the estuary of the Dodder river.
Ringsend traditionally held a reputation for being quite clanish and residents of the small village can trace their ancentry back many generations.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ringsend   (327 words)

  
 AROUND THE PORT OF DUBLIN - Tony Brennan
Ringsend was a most convenient harbour as far as fishing was concerned, as it lies on the South Estuary of the River Liffey.
Sailing from the harbour of Ringsend, often within easy view of the landsmen, the trawlers added a picturesque dimension to the scene which could hardly be matched elsewhere.
Their firm and seaworthy hulls, topped by sails the colour of the Ringsend earth, were a sight which could stir the least of the Ringsenders' romantic souls.
www.tonybrennan.freeservers.com   (666 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: MP3
Ringsend's curious amalgam of sound fills the void between overly-simplified pop rock and the difficult complexities of jazz.
Guitarist Chris Edwards favors his 1966 Guild hollow body electric guitar for a warm, jazzy tone, while Josh "Knuckles" Harvey, an in-demand session keyboardist and musical powerhouse, plays the part of the mad scientist as he switches between four keyboards: a Clavinova piano, Hammond Organ, Clavinet, and Moog synthesizer.
As guitarist, lead vocalist and lyricist of the group, Edwards simply describes Ringsend's formula for building their fanbase.
mp3.washingtonpost.com /bands/ringsend.shtml   (281 words)

  
 Ringsend & Irishtown, Dublin - Buildings of Ireland [Archeire, Irish Architecture Online]
Ringsend is named from the Gaelic Roinn Aun, meaning Sea Point.
In the 17th century it took over from Dalkey as Dublin's main port, and it was in Ringsend that Oliver Cromwell landed in 1649 with over ten thousand soldiers.
Irishtown, beside Ringsend, was founded in the mid 1400s when Dublin Corporation ordered all people of Irish blood to leave the city within a month.
www.irish-architecture.com /buildings_ireland/dublin/ringsend_irishtown   (106 words)

  
 Donnybrook Dublin Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Extending from Merrion Row to Ball's Bridge in one direction, and from Donnybrook Road to Ringsend and Irishtown in the other, for centuries it was used as pasture land for the use of the citizens of Dublin.
It is just possible that the then possessor of the chalice presented it to the Chapel of Irishtown in return for some kindness or hospitality received at the hands of the local priest whilst awaiting the favour of wind and tide.
A. - "There are no sewers in Ringsend or Irishtown, nor in general, sufficient room behind the houses to build offices; besides the great want the inhabitants labour under of fresh water by pipes from the city, though, as I understand, paying city taxes; until these circumstances are changed it is unreasonable to expect cleanliness.
www.donnybrook.biz /history.htm   (11798 words)

  
 O'Connell Bridge to Ringsend and Sandymount
The safety of the port was finally assured by the building from the northern shore at Clontarf, in the nineteenth century, of a similar breakwater, which nearly meets the older south wall and completes the enclosure of the mouth of the Liffey.
The whole harbour may be viewed by a walk along the southern quays from O'Connell Bridge to the furthermost extremity of the long breakwater beyond Ringsend, which took a good part of a century in the building.
Ringsend was until recent times the usual landing-place for travellers coming across channel.
www.chapters.eiretek.org /books/Chart/chart16.html   (3356 words)

  
 RINGSEND DEPOT Q.C.A.: a place were we are all customers
RINGSEND DEPOT Q.C.A.: a place were we are all customers
Emmanuel came from beautiful warm sunny Nigeria thousands of miles to damp dull cold Dublin.He currently is a spare driver working the variety of routes in ringsend for the last 2 years.
He has settled well in the garage and our country despite having to put up with some horrible abuse on his bus.Anybody who knows him knows how pleasant and fun loving he is a true gent.
www.freewebs.com /dublinbusringsend   (455 words)

  
 Pedigree sept for Brixham, Devon, England.
4 - Rachel ROWDEN (1883-1884) Ringsend, Dublin, Ireland.
Gerald HARVEY (-) 4 - Ellen Gertrude ROWDEN (1890-) Ringsend, Dublin, Ireland.
3 - Susanna ROWDEN (1866-) Ringsend, Dublin, Ireland.
www.rowdensurname.org /pedigree/rowden15.htm   (1248 words)

  
 Guyhirn with Ringsend
"GUYHIRN with RINGSEND - These places were formed into an ecclesiastical parish March 28, 1871, from the civil parishes of Wisbech St. Peter and Wisbech St. Mary, including the hamlet of Thorney Toll, which is 3½ miles west, and a portion of Wisbech St. Mary, with nearly the whole of Wisbech Fen."
Ringsend Wesleyan Methodist Church: Records exist at the Cambridge Record Office for baptisms 1869-1923.
The Guyhirn and Ringsend War Memorial has been transcribed and researched.
www.genuki.org.uk /big/eng/CAM/GuyhirnwithRingsend   (436 words)

  
 Stock Photos of Ringsend on Guidescapes.com
Ringsend is famous for its quaint houses with a variety of colourful brick facades, and has come to represent that very Irish inner-city suburb, making it popular with film and TV ads.
The occupants of these homes have decorated their houses in their own style, and one can sense a community spirit, as streets are lined with decorations and flags during major sports events or during the festive season.
Looming over the suburb is a giant gas ring of iron, a relic from the now extinct gasworks nearby, but still an important landmark in the area.
www.guidescapes.com /dublin/album.asp?id=23   (122 words)

  
 RTE News - Block of Ringsend plant plans threatened   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Yesterday RTÉ News revealed the Ringsend Plant was to be significantly expanded, just two years after it opened.
Separately, the Green Party Chairman, John Gormley, raised the matter in the Dáil that sludge from Ringsend was questionably being sent to a facility in Tullow County Carlow which did not have proper storage.
However, Dublin City Council has disputed this saying the material, called sludge cake, was being transported to farms for spreading directly on to the land, and this was in accordance with national regulations.
www.rte.ie /news/2005/0420/ringsend.html   (326 words)

  
 Anti bin tax protest in Ringsend   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The corporation's announcement that non-collection would start today in Ringsend appears to have been a lie.
Bin workers collected bins as usual and a great local protest approached them and, since they were collecting all the bins, we merely talked to them for 15 minutes to exchange information and let them go about their jobs.
This morning the council announced that they would begin implementing non-collection of bins in the Ringsend area of the city.
struggle.ws /wsm/news/2003/ringsendSEPT16.html   (520 words)

  
 LEFT OFF THE DIAL - Album Reviews - Ringsend: Vertigo
This is to be expected, as Harveys made a name for himself over the past few years by sitting in with bands such as River and Agents of Good Roots.
Ringsends Richmond peers have returned the favor: JC Kuhl plays saxophone on one track and bass player Stewart Myers mixed the album.
Musically, Ringsend has a refreshingly cool sound, and with a little work on the vocal melodies, the band could end up being a force to be reckoned with, perhaps turning into another powerhouse Virginia band.
www.leftoffthedial.com /Ringsend_Vertigo.htm   (397 words)

  
 The Shipwright Guesthouse and Bar, Ringsend, Dublin, Ireland
Ringsend and Irishtown is one of the oldest areas of Dublin, steeped in history and maritime tradition and made famous in the song "The Waxies' Dargle" and in Flann O'Brien's novel "At Swim-Two-Birds".
To the south lies Sandymount Strand with its pleasant beach walks just 15 minute away, while Shelbourne Park Greyhound Stadium and Lansdowne Road football ground are both less than ten minutes from The Shipwright.
Ringsend is right beside the business districts of Dublin 2 and 4 and for those preferring to walk, the city centre is only 20-30 minutes (1½ miles) away.
www.dublin-hotels.net /shipwright-guesthouse   (217 words)

  
 Raised on Songs and Stories
Their tiny cottage was the first in a line of cottages newly built on reclaimed land which formed part of the sea wall where the rivers Dodder and the Liffy flowed in to the Irish Sea.
Anyway, the book mentions that the guns at Ringsend Fort were turned round and trained on the fields of Clontarf on that day, so you see they really were exciting places.
She was by now a widow, and had given up her house in Ringsend to her son Joe and his wife, and was living with her daughter Julia, in Tullow.
stories.michaelocc.com   (16041 words)

  
 Splendid Magazine reviews Ringsend: Sunday Brunch at the Gentlemen's Club
You could listen to Sunday Brunch at the Gentlemen's Club thirty times through and never suspect that there was some substance bubbling beneath it all if you didn't stop and let the lyrics' stories play out in your mind.
This is largely due to the fact that Ringsend sounds like some sort of stock background music for homey barbecue joints and sparsely-populated blues clubs.
Doubt bubbles over in "Photograph Love" and "Piety Thieves", and by the album's end, multiple common human experiences are touched on and given a fresh voicing.
www.splendidezine.com /review.html?reviewid=1061665507153781   (362 words)

  
 BreakingNews.ie: Ringsend locals 'ignored' by Govt as odour persists
Hurricane Rita ploughed into the Gulf Coast early today, lashing Texas and Louisiana with driving rain, igniting the pre-dawn sky with exploding transformers and threatening to flood the low-lying region.
Grimsby were rewarded for their Carling Cup giantkilling exploits with a third-round home tie against Newcastle.
The Local Environment Group claims that they have appealed to the Department of the Environment to find a solution to the smells emanating from a sewerage treatment plant for the past two years.
www.breakingnews.ie /2005/09/24/story222320.html   (263 words)

  
 Junior Certificate, Leaving Certificate, Further Education, PLC, Literacy courses, Ringsend Technical Institute, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Ringsend Technical Institute is a CDVEC college offering Junior Certificate, Leaving Certificate and Repeat Leaving Certificate Programmes.
Ringsend Technical Institute is a modern, highly equipped college built in 1981.
Situated on the Liffey by the East Link, it offes easy access by Dart or a short bus ride from the city centre.
www.daycourses.com /profiles/ringsend   (222 words)

  
 Ringsend Fights the Bin tax - Indymedia Ireland
In spite of the freezing cold over forty residents from the New Houses in Ringsend met at a street meeting organized by the Ringsend campaign against the bin Tax last Monday evening.
Phone calls were made to other parts of Irishtown and Ringsend confirming that collections were delayed elsewhere.
One protestor phoned up the council to find out what time the council would be down to collect the waste and was told 11.58 am, exactly.
www.indymedia.ie /article/74061   (715 words)

  
 Archiseek - St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Ringsend
You might try Ashlin Coleman Healin, who were responsible for many churches in Dublin of this type and vintage.
Interesting that it should be Fuller; he was the District Architect 1862-1870 for the Irish Ecclesiastical Commissioners.
Fuller does not mention any church in Ringsend in his autobiography (Omniana), but then he mentions very little about architecture, only a couple of pages in total and some oblique references when telling anecdotes.
www.archiseek.com /content/printthread.php?t=3825   (734 words)

  
 RTE News - South Wharf bid for Ringsend site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Earlier this year the company was refused permission to use the former glass-making plant for warehousing.
The area occupied by the Ringsend site has been rezoned to permit commercial, residential and retail use.
A statement from South Wharf said it had been advised that it was entitled to seek full ownership under the relevant provisions of the Landlord and Tenant Acts.
www.rte.ie /news/2005/0718/southwharf.html   (215 words)

  
 Anti bin tax protest in Ringsend - Indymedia Ireland
The outcome of the meeting in Teachers club was; (bearing in mind fairly big differences in stratedgy and the low turn out at the meeting)
Chekov's report makes it clear that the bin workers in Ringsend were collecting all bins because they had not received orders to implement non-collection.
Opinions are those of the contributors and are not necessarily endorsed by Independent Media Centre Ireland.
www.indymedia.ie /newswire.php?story_id=61121   (4772 words)

  
 LEFT OFF THE DIAL - Ringsend
The project gained momentum with the addition of Chris Tully, a young bassist from the New York punk and ska scenes, and solidified in the fall of 2000 with the advent of Washington, D.C. drummer Anthony Allen.
Guitarist Chris Edwards favors his 1966 Guild hollowbody electric guitar, producing a warm, jazzy tone, while Josh plays the part of the mad scientist - switching between four keyboards: a Clavinova piano, Hammond organ, Clavinet, and Moog synthesizer.
Please contact LOTD if you have reviews, links, tour-dates or comments to add to the Ringsend page.
www.leftoffthedial.com /Ringsend.htm   (216 words)

  
 Dubliners
It was noon when we reached the quays and as all the labourers seemed to be eating their lunches, we bought two big currant buns and sat down to eat them on some metal piping beside the river.
We pleased ourselves with the spectacle of Dublin's commerce--the barges signalled from far away by their curls of woolly smoke, the brown fishing fleet beyond Ringsend, the big white sailingvessel which was being discharged on the opposite quay.
Mahony said it would be right skit to run away to sea on one of those big ships and even I, looking at the high masts, saw, or imagined, the geography which had been scantily dosed to me at school gradually taking substance under my eyes.
books.onelang.com /Dubliners   (21870 words)

  
 GREENPEACE | Defending the Deep : Episode III : Esperanza / NORTH WEST ATLANTIC 2005: November 2004 Archives
The Espy must be the most happening ship on the Irish Sea.
But back to Sunday morning - I'm standing out on the port bridge wing of the Esperanza looking into a thick fog, trying to make out the twin chimneys of Ringsend power station.
I can't see anything, except the occasional navigation buoy, a few gregarious birds, and a lone seal.
weblog.greenpeace.org /deepsea/archives/2004/11/index.html   (8916 words)

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