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<strong>FW75</strong> ExHIBITION I am trying, Joyce wrote, … to give people some kind of intellectual pleasure or spiritual enjoyment by converting the bread of everyday life into something that has a permanent artistic life of its own... for their mental, moral, and spiritual uplift. A PROUDSEYE VIEW OF DUBLIN Nicholas Proud, Bindon Blood Stoney and John Purser Griffith The Bird’s Eye View of Dublin was created by Mr Brewer with the aid of a hot air balloon tethered at Roe’s distillery, James’ Street, Mr Roe having recently given generous support to the refurbishment of Christchurch Cathedral of building of the Synod Hall. It is estimated that Roe’s gift to Christchurcch would amount to over €20m in today’s terms. The Bird’s Eye View was created to show the restored Christchurch as the jewel in a tiara comprising the other public buildings of Dublin. The backdrop bears a remarkable resemblance to the opening lines of Finnegans Wake: Riverrun, past Eve an Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, takes us by a commodious vicus of recirculation, back past Howth Castle and Environs Brewer even seems to have captured in his image the eternal (and thus Viconian) cycle of aquaeus alluviation, evaporation, condensation and precipitation! 4
SOME EMINENT VICTORIANS Dublin towards the end of the Nineteenth Century is captured in the Bird’s Eye View, published by the London-based Graphic Newspaper in December 1890 when James Joyce was nearly nine. In the Bird’s Eye view, the line of the river is clearly captured, showing the influence on the city of three men in particular: Nicholas Proud was the Secretary or Chief Executive Officer of the Dublin Port & Docks Board. He was appointed at its inception in 1867, when it replaced the old Dublin Ballast Board (with its headquarters still in the Ballast Office). He served until just two weeks before his death in 1921. Both Bindon Blood Stoney and John Purser Griffith were appointed Chief Engineer by the Secretary, By Order, Nicholas Proud (FW12). Hence when the clouds rolled by Jamey, a proudseye view is enjoyable of our mounding’s mass (FW7-8) Bindon Blood Stoney, Executive Engineer, to the Dublin Ballast Board and, from 1867, Chief Engineer at Dublin Port. He designed the quay walls at the River Liffey, making it a deepwater port. He designed Grattan Bridge, O'Connell Bridge, and the original Butt Bridge [replaced in 1932]. He invented a diving bell, which can be seen to this day on Sir John Rogerson’s Quay and the means to use pre-cast concrete. His brother, the physicist George Johnstone Stoney coined the term ‘electron’ for the fundamental unit of electricity. John Purser Griffith served a two-year apprenticeship under Bindon Blood Stoney at the Dublin Port and Docks. In 1871, he was appointed Dr. Stoney's assistant, becoming the Chief Engineer in 1898. His achievements included substantial rebuilding of the quays and the deepening the approaches. His North Quay extension involved the use of the great concrete blocks, each containing more than 5,000 cubic feet of masonry, weighing about 360 tons. These were built above high-water level, and when sufficiently set were set were lifted and transported by a floating shears crane and deposited on a bed provided by steam dredging, and levelled by men working in a diving bell. When he retired in 1913, His son, John William Griffith, succeeded him. In 1936, he was awarded the honorary freedom of the city of Dublin. He died on 21 October 1938. 5
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