Genocidal Culture Busker Haircut #12: The Past / gunplay in the historical streets

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Brown St., Dublin: photo by Robert French, between 1865 and 1914 (Lawrence Photographic Collection, National Library of Ireland)

The Past

Who are these people what are they doing here

standing or slouching in the street against an anonymous building

that looms leaning down above them in one corner of the frame

under a dull and featureless gray sky

diminishing at the end of the street into an industrial horizon with tall chimney

in this unreadable picture of the future

The streetcar that was always coming but never arrived

The past that seemed so far off for so long

always rushing slows at last catches up   one minute

here    now it is gone    now you are in it

no one is not in it    fleeting moon entering saturn

through heavy night cloud cover 

over stunned insentient ocean and earth

you can't hold your head up  

Brown St., Dublin: photo by Robert French, between 1865 and 1914 (Lawrence Photographic Collection, National Library of Ireland)

Brown St., Dublin: photo by Robert French, between 1865 and 1914 (Lawrence Photographic Collection, National Library of Ireland)

Slums, Dublin City, Co. Dublin.

You would have to class this as an atypical Lawrence shot, we see very little interest in the camera or the photographer. I notice that the photo is labeled Brown Street, a street which is not immediately familiar to me. I suspect that we will find that not many of the buildings we see have survived over the last 100 years, or have they?

As per the 2014 Streetview, and the incredible insights from today's contributors, only the leftmost building seems to remain. According to the NIAH entry it was once a 'Female Penitent Asylum'. White 'slum' seems a tad harsh to modern ears, this part of Dublin mixed industrial with residential - in a way that zoning laws might preclude today. For example, within 2 streets of this image were multiple tanneries, a piggery, glue works, maltings, and a fertilizer works. And, per the comments below, a 'house of ill fame' :) .... 

-- NLI, 2 June 2017

Viewer comments:

The four-storey terrace on the left corner is still there.

-- beachcomberaustralia, 2 June 2017  

I wonder why all the men are outside that house?

-- NLI, 2 June 2017

It was the Dublin Academy of Corner Boys (DACB). The fellow in the bowler hat is their professor ...  ;-)

-- beachcomberaustralia, 2 June 2017 

**M U R D E R . . K L A X O N**
"Fatal Quarrel on Christmas night" involving soldiers and a "house of ill-fame" in Fulham's Court, off Brown Street ... (1863)
Read All About It ! -
Ed. Transcribed -

FATAL QUARREL ON CHRISTMAS NIGHT.
Several soldiers belonging to the 86th Regt., at present stationed in Dublin, were in a house of ill-fame, in Fulham's-court, off Brown-street, on Christmas night, when two of them, Henry Edwards and John McNamara, had a quarrel. The latter drew a knife, which the other and a woman endeavoured, but in vain, to wrest from him. Edwards soon afterwards left the house, but he was followed by McNamara, when the quarrel was resumed. Edwards ran away into Brown-street; the other pursued him, drew his knife, and stabbed him through the heart. He then tried to escape but he was arrested by the police with the aid of some civilians. It was Saturday morning when this occurred. The deceased was in coloured clothes. He was a waiter at the mess, and is said to have been much respected in the regiment: — A Coroner's jury returned the following verdict: 'That Henry Edwards, a private in the 86th Regt. of Foot, died on the morning of Saturday, the 26th of December, 1863, from the effects of a certain wound inflicted on him the same morning by John McNamara, a private soldier in said regiment, now in custody.' The prisoner was then committed on the Coroner's warrant for trial at the next Commission.

-- beachcomberaustralia, 2 June 2017 

There was a Sunday school in the Dutch Billy across the road.... That building they're standing outside is still there and probably the only Georgian house left on the street. 

The lane next to it is Brickfield Lane. Pity about the Dutch Billy.

-- O Mac, 2 June 2017 

The OSI 25" map shows the tall chimneys "Chy.", see notes.
 
The ladies outside the printing works look ca. 1910 to me - a good deal of ankle and boater hats.

-- beachcomberaustralia, 2 June 2017

Thom`s Official Directory 1919: 1 Brown Street; IRISH CURLED HAIR COMPANY; Phone 1577. Are these men waiting outside?

 
-- beachcomberaustralia, 2 June 2017

Never heard of a Dutch Billy before, fascinating! 

-- NLI, 2 June 2017

Yes, I had to look Dutch Billy up -

 
 -- beachcomberaustralia, 2 June 2017 

All I can say is that this image is crying out for some 'before and after' photographic attention!

 
 -- Peter Denton, 2 June 2017  

Brown Streetview

The NIAH in its appraisal of the tall building on the left says....
 

"An imposing building of considerable size, probably originally built as a pair of houses. It was in use as a 'Female Penitent Asylum' of the Parish of Saint Catherine in the mid-nineteenth century."
 

It probably wasn't used as such after 1875 when the Convent of Mercy on Brickfield Lane opened as a night Refuge for Homeless Females.
 

It would appear from the 1901 census that there was only a solitary person living in that big house. He was manager of a printing works..... 

-- O Mac, 2 June 2017 

 

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