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Welcome to Streets Broad and Narrow. You can read about the site here, and see the most recent posts below.

• Charleville Mall
  On the Royal Canal, running from Newcomen Bridge to Clarke’s Bridge, Charleville Mall was laid out in the 1820s. By 1829…
• Foster Street – Ballybough Road
  Foster Street was the name given, until the 1890s, to different parts of Ballybough Road. M’Cready gives 1849 as the date,…
• I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls
  The recent anniversary of the death of Michael William Balfe, on 20 October, prompted me to look into the history of…
• Pitt Street
  The original name of Balfe Street, for which see.
• Balfe Street
  Formerly ‘Pitt Street’, this is one of two streets in Dublin named for Michael William Balfe (1808–70), composer and musician, best…
• A Joycean name for a very old street
  The entry for James Joyce Street took a while to write. Apart from the two changes in the name of the…
• Corporation Street
  One of two previous names for James Joyce Street, renamed from Mabbot Street in 1911, the name derived from “Corporation Buildings”,…
• Mabbot Street
  One of two previous names for James Joyce Street. The name derived from Gilbert Mabbot, who built a mill at the…
• From Donegal to Cabra, via Liverpool
  Reviewing some draft posts, I posted the entry for Doon Avenue and some nearby streets in Cabra. The derivation of the…