Afternoon Tea at the Gresham anyone?
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Apart from the parking outside and the street furniture not much has changed at the Gresham Hotel in Dublin's O'Connell Street! A neat line of cars along the kerb with small trees in the centre of the roadway are probably going to help date this image more than anything else?
Photographer: Fergus O’Connor
Collection: Fergus O'Connor Collection
Date: a long time ago?
NLI Ref: OCO 228
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Photographer: Fergus O’Connor
Collection: Fergus O'Connor Collection
Date: a long time ago?
NLI Ref: OCO 228
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
"Rebuilt 1927" according to this 1949 advert https://www.flickr.com/photos/waltzer/7009551591/ via https://www.flickr.com/photos/waltzer/
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The building on the right is not yet there; what and when ... ?
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia Madigans pub is next-door today. A Friend told me!
Niall McAuley
Compare to this 1908ish one - the arched ground floor windows are completely different:
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c. 1960 via https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/27929516691/
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
And in July 2021 with useful history via https://www.flickr.com/photos/historicaltoursireland/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/historicaltoursireland/51302775444/
Niall McAuley
Per the NIAH: after a major conflict between government troops and anti-Treaty forces stationed at the hotel, it was rebuilt to the designs of London architect, Robert Atkinson, beginning in 1925.
Niall McAuley
But the concrete lamp posts are not here yet, before 1936-39.
Rory_Sherlock
To the right is Madigan's (No.19), which the NIAH suggests was built c.1925 (on the site of King's and Irwin's) but which must be a few years later. To the right of that is a 4-storey building (No.18) which was built 1928-9 and which is part of the larger Savoy Cinema at 16-17. www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/50010... Note the fence which extends onto the footpath in the bottom right corner of our photo - this probably relates to the construction of No.18 in 1928-9, giving a good date for the photo and suggesting No.19 was not built c.1925 but sometime from 1929 onwards
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In ruins 1922 via the NLI -
See others - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000237588
Architecture of Dublin
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The Gresham Hotel Porter, Hugh Callaghan, died worth 10,000 pounds (1944) (equivalent to nearly half a million today). Read All About It ! - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/11368885?searchTerm=gr...
Niall McAuley
The DIA hs this nice detail: Name: POWER, ALBERT GEORGE * Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET UPPER, NO. 020-22 (GRESHAM HOTEL) Date: 1926-1929 Nature: Enrichments on facade: coat of arms, urns, sphinxes (modelled on his wife's face). SphinxView
Billy Quinn 1954
suckindeesel
Or should I say 'Hotel Riu Plaza The Gresham Dublin', a bit ponderous I think, will stick with 'The Gresham'
suckindeesel
"But tell me, Gabriel,' said Aunt Kate, with brisk tact. `Of course, you've seen about the room. Gretta was saying... ' --O, the room is all right, replied Gabriel. I've taken one in the Gresham. --To be sure, said Aunt Kate, by far the best thing to do. And the children, Gretta, you're not anxious about them? -- The Dead
Peter Denton
I've been fortunate to stay at the Gresham on many occasions, particularly in the 1970s but as recently as a couple of years ago - and I really have to say that the full-on breakfast there is peerless and for ever memorable. In terms of history, this might be of passing interest: https://www.flickr.com/photos/peterdenton/5213918247/
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catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000643913 Plate presented to Thomas Michael Gresham by the residents of Kingstown for his efforts in opposing the extension of the Kingstown Railway, 6th August 1883]