Liffey Outfall

The outfall

The Poddle’s journey ends here, flowing out under Wellington Quay into the Liffey through a grating in the quay wall. The Liffey is tidal here, so at high tide the grating disappears under the water.

Wellington Quay

Wellington Quay was the last of the Liffey quays to be built. It is named after the Dublin-born Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, after his victory over Napoleon at Waterloo.

Ulysses

In James Joyce’s Ulysses the outfall is placed, wrongly, at Wood Quay, in words that are unflattering but memorable:

“From its sluice in Wood quay wall under Tom Devan’s office Poddle river hung out in fealty a tongue of liquid sewage.”