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TWO FAMOUS LANDMARKS in Dublin’s city centre were in the news last week, for different reasons.
Tuesday saw the the unveiling of the restored Clerys clock, the staple in Irish culture that has long been synonymous as a meeting place for couples.
Just a few metres away, The Spire celebrated its 20th birthday as a landmark that has divided Irish people since its completion in 2003.
They are just two of hundreds of famous landmarks located in and around the capital – but how well do you know them?
1/10. The culchie is strong in me
Strictly speaking, I don’t think it was Grafton St that the Molly Malone statue was on. It was the street that curves around to become Nassau St. College St, perhaps? Anyway it’s the R138 on Maps
@Scott Kincaid: All those buildings from the Irish Whiskey Museum down have Grafton St. addresses so the question is probably correct.
@Longlin: Correct, Grafton St runs from Stephens Green all the way to College Green (the wide bit in front of the front gate of Trinity), so the Whiskey museum building is at the end of Grafton St.
@Scott Kincaid: yeah that’s grafton st, the tcd provost’s house across the road from where it was is 1 grafton st
@Longlin: Or the answer is. One of them is anyway….
Jases I thought I was a dub 3/10.
9 out of 10. Which isn’t to bad considering I do not live in dublin.
Thankyou for this one actually. Entertaining and educational. Jonathan Swift buried in St Patrick’s? That’s something.
It would have been nice to see a question about the Phill Lynott statue (excuse my woeful spelling).
“Staple in Irish culture”? That’s not even Dublin-centric nonsense.
The spire was nicknamed the needle
10/10 but admittedly I guessed the GPO reopening.
@Sean Ryan: And you just knew all the rest??? Sure!
8/10
Could have been worse I suppose
@Nollaig Kelly: Like a 7/10
@Alan Rothwell: Or a 6/10 even, God help us…
Im just going to put my hand up here and say i got 6. Because i don’t live there. But if i did id be ashamed if i didn’t ger them all
@Tom Collins: In my defence I have to say that the U2 question was a music question, while the dates of Clery’s clock and the GPO opening are not obvious to the average Dubliner. I got the others.
@Rob Goodbody: I missed the GPO and how many people cross the bridge, I’d love if my bosses would give me the day off to count them!
8/10. Got the reopening of the GPO nd the U2 video wrong. But surely that one is a music question?
Ow ye… Top Dog! 10 outa 10
9/10, not bad for a Limerick culchie.
10/10
@Soupy Gargler: Any lucky guesses?
@sean o’dhubhghaill: only 7 or 8….
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