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Moving Dublin explores the everyday world of movement in Dublin and its vast sprawling suburbs spreading out west from the coastal city. We look at how far the contemporary world of the Dublin commuter has strayed from the civic realm it constituted when Joyce wrote the Wandering Rocks chapter of Ulysses.

Moving Dublin is to be published in the form of a book and DVD in March 2009 by Gandon Editions

Moving Dublin has been commissioned by South Dublin County Council through In Context 3 and funded under the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government’s Per Cent for Art Scheme.

Iron Quay. Extract 01’09”.

In 1675 Jonathan Amory was granted his lease for “that part of the Strand on the north side of the Liffey situate betwixte the wall of the Pill - and the water mill lately built by Mr Gilbert Mabbott”.[...] The city recorded its ownership of this small area of land in 1733, noting that it was bounded “on the south by the river Anna Liffey and on the north [by] the land granted to Jonathan Amory”. At that time, they then used this small area to build a protected quay which was named as The Iron Quay; and they clearly showed themselves continuing their ownership of the Old Ferry landing place close by.

John W. de Courcy.

Bluffs, Bays and Pools in the medieval Liffey at Dublin