F - Fares to Francis Xavier, Chapel of S.

FERRY BOAT.

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Ferryboats cross the Liffey at three or four points below the Swivel-bridge, and form a convenient, if slow, method of passing from side to side on the lower reaches of the river. The fare is 1/2d.

Illustration showing fire damage, Irish Houses of Parliament, Dublin City, Co. Dublin, Ireland

PARLIAMENT HOUSE, DUBLIN, WHEN IN FLAMES, 1792.

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Fire Brigade, The, has its chief station at the corner of Tara-street and Great Brunswick-street (1905-6) [...] Like all large cities, Dublin has been visited in the past, by terrible disasters from fire. [...] In 1792 the House of Commons was burned.

Drawing of the Old Courts of Justice, Dublin, Ireland

OLD COURTS OF JUSTICE (IN 1788).

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Four Courts. [...] In 1744, and again in 1755, considerable sums were expended for repairs ; but the buildings had fallen into so ruinous a state, and were so extremely incommodious, that COOLEY was requested to furnish a design for a new building in a more convenient situation ; the outcome of which proposal was the building of the present Four Courts in 1796.