Proposed street name

A name proposed, but not adopted, for O’Connell Avenue when it was being renamed in 1884. Gerald Griffin was a novelist from Limerick. His most successful work was The Collegians (1829), which gave the world the name Myles na Coppaleen, and was adapted for the stage as the Colleen Bawn, by Boucicault. However, Griffin took…

‘Plantation Road’ was the name originally proposed by the Dublin Artisans’ Dwellings Company for ‘Halliday Road‘, Stonybatter.