“On application of the owners, [Owner: Mr J. J. (?) Shillington, two new streets situate off Broadway and Falls Road - Nansen Street and Iveagh Street. Minutes, TIC, 2nd June 1897] your Committee have named two new streets off Broadway and Falls road ‘Nansen Street’ and ‘Iveagh Street’; new streets off Springfield road, Cupar street and Clonard street ‘Aboo street’, ‘Bantry street,’ ‘Benares street’, ‘Bombay street’, ‘Cawnpore street’, ‘Dunmore street’, ‘Dingle street, ‘Lucknow street’, ‘Oranmore street’, ‘Tralee street’, and they have changed the name of ‘Faloon’s court’ to ‘Fleet street place’.” Minutes, Town Improvement Committee, 23 June 1897. Nansen Street named to honour Fridtjof Nansen, (10 October 1861 – 13 May 1930) the Norwegian explorer.