Timeline

• 1733

  The City ordered Iron Quay to be built here with a river frontage of 30 metres. It now lies under the junction of Eden Quay and Marlborough Street.

• 1753

  The Marlborough Bowling Green and Pleasure Gardens host a musical evening with a fireworks display to raise funds to build a wooden bridge over the Liffey, presumably to benefit patrons from south of the river, though no bridge is recorded as having been built.

• 1893
  

  July 25th, Roseanna ‘Rosie’ Hackett is born.

• 1911

  Rosie, having joined the Irish Transport and General Workers’ Union (ITGWU) and working as a messenger in Jacob’s Factory, joins the walk out for better working conditions. She organises 3,000 women in the factory to join her. They succeed.

• 1913

  Rosie joins the Lockout at Jacob’s Factory. She would later lose her job as a result.

• 1916

  Rosie joins the Irish Citizen’s Army and is involved in the printing of the Proclamation of Independence. She is involved in a group that occupies Stephen’s Green and the College of Surgeons.

• 1970

  Rosie is awarded a Gold Badge by the ITGWU in recognition of her 50 years of membership.

• 1976

  Rosie dies aged 84.

• 2009

  July 13th, Planning Permission is granted by An Bord Pleanála.

• 2012
  

  February 2nd, work commences on the new bridge.

• 2013

  April 19th, last submissions for naming the new bridge were made to Dublin City Council.

• 2013

  September 2nd, the City Council votes for the bridge to be named after Rosie Hackett.

• 2014
  

  May 20th, Rosie Hackett Bridge is officially opened.