Tara Street is a major traffic route in

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, partly due to the current one-way traffic flow in the city centre.Draft Georges Quay Plan
December 2008, p. 31

Location

It links

Pearse Street Pearse Street () (formerly Great Brunswick Street) is a major street in Dublin. It runs from College Street in the west to MacMahon Bridge in the east, and is one of the city's longest streets. It has several different types of residential and c ...

to the northern side of the city via

Butt Bridge The Butt Bridge () is a road bridge in Dublin, Ireland which spans the River Liffey and joins Georges Quay to Beresford Place and the north quays at Liberty Hall. The original bridge on this site was a structural steel swing bridge, designed b ...

- traffic flows to the north. The street gives its name to

Tara Street railway station Tara Street ( ga, Sráid na Teamhrach) is a railway station in central Dublin, Ireland. It is adjacent to Loopline Bridge on George's Quay. It mainly services light rail DART trains and longer distance commuter trains. Commuter services op ...

, which is around the corner on Georges Quay, near the northern end of Tara Street.

History

It was developed as a completely new street in 1885 replacing Shoe Lane, part of which was called Stocking Lane, Fleet Market, and George's Street. The street was named after Tara, the home of the ancient high kings of Ireland. It was the home of Tara Street Baths, opened in 1886, and demolished in 1986 when it was replaced by the

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Pool. In April 1907

Dublin Fire Brigade The Dublin Fire Brigade (DFB; ga, Briogáid Dóiteáin Átha Cliath) is the local authority fire and rescue service and ambulance service for Dublin City and the majority of the Greater Dublin Area. It is a branch of Dublin City Council. T ...

opened its headquarters at the new fire station at the corner of Tara Street and

.Dublin Fire Brigade a History

This would be the headquarters of the Fire Brigade until a new headquarters was opened in Townsend Street in 1998. The brick watch tower at the intersection of the two streets is now a protected structure. During the Easter Rising, British artillery shelled

Liberty Hall Liberty Hall ( ga, Halla na Saoirse), in Dublin, Ireland, is the headquarters of the Services, Industrial, Professional, and Technical Union (SIPTU). Designed by Desmond Rea O'Kelly, it was completed in 1965. It was for a time the tallest b ...

from Tara Street, though the road surface made it difficult.Easter Rising 1916
by Michael McNally and Peter Dennis, p.68. Tara Street was widened in 1932 after

was changed from a swing bridge to a three span fixed structure. In October 2006, ''

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'' moved to new headquarters in Tara Street.Over €25 million for headquarters of The Irish Times
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Irish Independent Previously, it had been based on

D'Olier Street D'Olier Street ( ) is a street in the southern city-centre of Dublin, the capital of Ireland. It and Westmoreland Street are two broad streets whose northern ends meet at the southern end of O'Connell Bridge over the River Liffey. Its southern ...

Literary connection

Leopold Bloom Leopold Bloom is the fictional protagonist and hero of James Joyce's 1922 novel '' Ulysses''. His peregrinations and encounters in Dublin on 16 June 1904 mirror, on a more mundane and intimate scale, those of Ulysses/ Odysseus in Homer's epic ...

thinks about using the Tara Street public baths in the Calypso section of the novel Ulysses.Ask About Ireland - Pages in History feature - Mentions public baths

References

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