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The club was named for Lillie Langtry (1853–1929), [9] and the name bordello was intended to evoke the Victorian era, [13] when Grafton Street was a notorious red-light district. It featured plush Victorian red velvet decor, and a " library " area accessible only to VIPs with a special key.
Nassau Street (/ ˈ n æ s ɔː /; Irish: Sráid Thobar Phádraig, meaning 'St. Patrick's Well Street') is a street in central Dublin, running along the south side of Trinity College. It goes from Grafton Street in the west to the junction of South Leinster Street and Kildare Street in the east.
In 1969, the Irish government announced it would be building the largest office block built in Dublin to that date on a plot of land on Kildare Place behind the Shelbourne Hotel. The plan was to build an 8-storey block providing the Department of Agriculture with 4 acres of office space. Named Agriculture House, it was designed by Stephenson ...
Lincoln Place, Nassau Street and Leinster Street South were previously collectively known as St Patrick's Well Lane. The name was derived from the holy well on the ground of Trinity College. In John Rocque 's map of Dublin in the late 1750s, Lincoln Place was marked as St Patricks Lane.
Brian Murphy was born in Dublin, Ireland, to Denis and Mary Murphy and lived in Clonskeagh. [1] In the summer of 2000 he had finished a Post Leaving Certificate course and had a part-time job at the Brown Thomas department store; he had previously attended St Conleth's College, Gonzaga College and Bruce College (a grinds school).
The club has over 1000 registered members and fields teams that compete in football, hurling and camogie at both juvenile and adult levels. A number of their members have been and/or are part of the panel for Dublin teams including Rebecca McDonnell, Kim Flood, Serena Hannon, Rachael Byrne (Senior Ladies), Ella Thirroueiz (Ladies Minor) and Maria O'Dea (U16) with Karl Morgan and Colm O'Briain ...
A collection of 15 Georgian and Victorian buildings were demolished, including the original Elverys Sports corner store [11] and the 1870 McCurdy's Law Club. [12] The new 5-storey t-shaped office block with street-level retail units was designed by Lardner and Partners. [11] The new building, completed in 1967 was called Nassau House.
Kinney's mosaic Cantrell and Cochrane, Nassau Place, Dublin 2 from a trade magazine of c1870. The site was later to become that of the Setanta Centre. In March 1967, Setanta Investments applied for permission for an office development on the former site of C&C Group's factory spanning from Nassau Street to Molesworth Street and from Kildare Street to South Frederick Street.