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  • Balfe Street

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    Formerly ‘Pitt Street’, this is one of two streets in Dublin named for Michael William Balfe (1808–70), composer and musician, best known for his opera ‘The Bohemian Girl’, and the aria ‘I dreamt I dwelt in Marble Halls’. (The other is Balfe Road, Walkinstown.) Originally part of Harry Street,1 it became its own street, as…

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    Griffith Avenue

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    One of the grandest roads on the north side, Griffith Avenue was laid out in the 1920s as part of the Marino Housing scheme, linking the Malahide Road (and the Howth Road if you include Copeland Avenue) to Ballymun Road. Originally referred to as the ‘100 foot road’, it was named Griffith Avenue in April…