Heytesbury Street
53°20′00″N 6°16′07″W / 53.33333°N 6.26861°W / 53.33333; -6.26861
Heytesbury Street (⫽ˈheɪtsbəriː⫽; Irish: Sráid Heytesbury) is a tree-lined inner city street north of the South Circular Road, in Portobello, Dublin, Ireland.
History
The street is named after William à Court, 1st Baron Heytesbury (1789–1860), Lord Lieutenant 1844–46. Built and developed as an artery to join Portobello Harbour about 1820, its current layout dates from the mid-19th century.[1][2]
It is primarily a residential street but also contains a school: Synge Street CBS is officially known as St Paul's Secondary School, Heytesbury Street.
Jonathan Swift had a vegetable garden and a paddock for his horse nearby. The entrance to the Meath Hospital was located on this street. The hospital's foundations were laid by Lord Brabazon in October 1770. The hospital was initially known as The Meath Hospital and County Dublin Infirmary, but was renamed on its move in 1823.
James Clarence Mangan and Brendan Behan were patients in the Meath Hospital and died there. Oliver St John Gogarty (Buck Mulligan in Joyce's Ulysses) was on its staff from 1911 to 1939.
No. 33, Heytesbury Street was the birthplace of Cornelius Ryan, author of The Longest Day, The Last Battle and A Bridge Too Far.
No. 72, Heytesbury Street houses one of Ireland's leading contract bridge clubs, the Civil Service Bridge Club.
Literary references
"There's a bloody big foxy thief beyond by the garrison church at the corner of Chicken lane - old Troy was just giving me a wrinkle about him - lifted any God's quantity of tea and sugar to pay three bob a week said he had a farm in the county Down off a hop-of-my-thumb by the name of Moses Herzog over there near Heytesbury street." Ulysses, Chapter 12, Cyclops episode, James Joyce.
"Of what did bellchime and handtouch and footstep and lonechill remind him? Of companions now in various manners in different places defunct: Percy Apjohn (killed in action, Modder River), Philip Gilligan (phthisis, Jervis Street hospital), Matthew F. Kane (accidental drowning, Dublin Bay), Philip Moisel (pyemia, Heytesbury street), Michael Hart (phthisis, Mater Misericordiae hospital), Patrick Dignam (apoplexy, Sandymount)." Ulysses, Chapter 17, Ithaca episode, James Joyce.
See also
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- Abbey Street
- Amiens Street
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- Summerhill Parade
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- Ailesbury Road
- Anglesea Road
- Aungier Street
- Baggot Street
- Bow Lane West
- Boyne Street
- Bride Street
- Britain Quay
- Bull Alley Street
- Camden Street
- Christchurch Place
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- Clyde Road
- College Green
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- The Coombe
- Coppinger Row
- Cork Street
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- Dame Lane
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- Earlsfort Terrace
- Ely Place
- Eustace Street
- Fenian Street
- Fishamble Street
- Fleet Street
- Fownes Street
- Fumbally Lane
- Georges Quay
- Golden Lane
- Grafton Street
- Harcourt Street
- Harcourt Terrace
- Hawkins Street
- Herbert Park
- Herbert Road
- Heytesbury Street
- High Street
- Hume Street
- James's Street
- Kildare Street
- Lansdowne Road
- Leeson Street
- Lincoln Place
- Marrowbone Lane
- Merrion Road
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- Misery Hill
- Molesworth Street
- Morehampton Road
- Mount Street Lower
- Nassau Street
- Northumberland Road
- Newbridge Avenue
- New Bride Street
- Park Avenue
- Parliament Street
- Patrick Street
- Pearse Street
- Raglan Road
- Sandymount Avenue
- Shelbourne Road
- Shrewsbury Road
- Sir John Rogerson's Quay
- South Circular Road
- South Great George's Street
- South William Street
- St Andrew's Street
- Steeven's Lane
- Stephen Street
- Sydney Parade Avenue
- Tara Street
- Thomas Street
- Tritonville Road
- Werburgh Street
- Westland Row
- Westmoreland Street
- Wexford Street
- Wicklow Street
- Winetavern Street
- Wood Quay
- York Street
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