Sandycove
Sandycove
Cuas an Ghainimh | |
|---|---|
Suburb | |
 Sandycove seen from Dun Laoghaire | |
  Sandycove Location in Dublin  Sandycove Sandycove (Ireland) | |
| Coordinates: 53°17′10″N 6°06′58″W / 53.286°N 6.116°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Leinster |
| County | Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown |
| Population (2006) | |
| • Urban | 3,735 |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+1 (IST (WEST)) |
| Eircode (Routing Key) | A96 |
| Area code | 01 (+3531) |
Sandycove (Irish: Cuas an Ghainimh) is a suburb of Dublin, Ireland. It is south east of Dún Laoghaire and Glasthule, and north west of Dalkey. It is a popular seaside resort and is well known for its bathing place, the Forty Foot, which in the past was reserved for men only but is now available for mixed bathing. The locale features in the opening of Ulysses by James Joyce.
History
On 20 December 1940, during World War II, the Luftwaffe bombed the railway station even though Ireland was a neutral country. There were three injuries.[1] See Bombing of Dublin in World War II.
Transport
Sandycove and Glasthule railway station opened on 11 October 1855.[2] Sandycove is also serviced by Dublin Bus numbers 59 and 111, and lies close to Dún Laoghaire harbour.
Culture
The writer James Joyce lived for a week as a young man in the Martello Tower situated beside the Forty Foot bathing place at Sandycove. The opening scene of Joyce's Ulysses is set in this tower. It now hosts a small Joycean museum, open all year round.[3] Bloomsday is celebrated in Sandycove in Joyce's honour on the 16th of June every year.
Near to the tower, on the seafront, is the unique landmark house designed in the Avant Garde style by Michael Scott, the eminent 20th-century architect, who made it his residence.
Lifeboat
The first lifeboat station in Ireland was established at Sandycove in 1803. On 28 December 1821 The lifeboat rescued the crew of the brig Ellen of Liverpool; Four volunteer lifeboatmen drowned.[4]
Notable residents
- Roger Casement was born in Sandycove[citation needed]
- Bernard Farrell, playwright[citation needed]
- Peter Gatenby, Professor and Medical Director for the UN, lived in Sandycove.[5]
- William Monk Gibbon, poet and author[citation needed]
- Oliver St. John Gogarty rented the Martello Tower from 1904 to 1925[citation needed]
- James Joyce stayed briefly in the Martello Tower situated beside the Forty Foot bathing place, as a guest of Oliver St. John Gogarty.[6]
- Lucy Kennedy, broadcaster[citation needed]
- Jason O'Mara was born and raised in Sandycove[citation needed]
- Imogen Stuart, sculptor and Saoi[citation needed]
- Maureen Toal, actress who resided in Sandycove.[7]
See also
External links
References
- ^ The Storm Passed by: Ireland and the Battle of the Atlantic, 1940-41, By Trevor Allen; page 63
- ^ "Sandycove station" (PDF). Railscot - Irish Railways. Retrieved 2007-09-03.
- ^ "About | James Joyce Tower and Museum". jamesjoycetower.com. Retrieved 2016-02-26.
- ^ Gilligan, Henry (1988). Gill and Macmillan. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-7171-1578-5.
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- ^ "Bloomsday". The James Joyce Centre. Retrieved 2016-02-08.
- ^ "'Greatest'actor Maureen Toal dies". Irish Times. 2012-08-25. Retrieved 2012-08-27.
