Visiting Dublin in June, I pulled out three loose bricks from the mixed fill
of a c. 1970 parking lot then being excavated for something new. The lot is
the exact site of the c. 1780 rowhouse of the Irish patriot Robert Emmet ("Let
no man write my epitaph..."). Bu the bricks may be extraneous fill, or push-
in fill from the Emmet rowhouse, demolished for the parking lot ("Let no man
write my parking ticket ...") c. 1970.
Is there a brick specialist who dates bricks?*
Signed, Christopher Gray (married to an Emmet)
(*Can't tell whether these bricks are male or female, gay or straight.)