Pearse Street

No. 27 Pearse Street, birthplace of Patrick and Willie Pearse

Pearse Street (Irish: Sráid an Phiarsaigh) is one of the longest streets in Dublin and varies in use along its length. It is named after the Irish revolutionaries, Patrick Pearse and his brother William, who were born there. It was previously called Great Brunswick Street.[1]

Its western end meets College Street near Townsend Street. Here, on the northern side, there is a Garda station, followed by the headquarters of the Dublin Fire Brigade with the Central Fire Station. The Trinity City Hotel is over and beside the fire station. Office buildings are on the southern side of the street, followed by Trinity College, Dublin. These offices of the Department of Social Protection are on the site of the Queen's Theatre, Dublin.

The DART crosses Pearse street beside St. Mark's church, and east of that is the former Antient Concert Rooms[2][3][4] where W. B. Yeats’ play The Countess Cathleen was first performed 8 May 1899[5] and James Joyce won an award for singing at the Feis Ceoil 16 May 1904.[6] No. 43 is the former Erasmus Smith Commercial and Civil Service School,[7][8] a bank and pub bracket the junction with Lombard Street, with Trinity College and the railway station and Goldsmith Hall opposite each other on Westland Row.

Further east along the street is the Pearse Street Public Library, which has the Gilbert Library and the City Archives on its first floor. The street then becomes residential, including Pearse Square, until it reaches McMahon Bridge at Grand Canal Dock, where numerous high-tech offices and high-rise apartment buildings in an area dubbed Silicon Docks can be found. The street is then named Ringsend Road, and later Bridge Street around Ringsend Bridge on its continuation into Dublin 4.

People

Architect Thomas Francis McNamara had offices at No. 192 Great Brunswick Street from 1911 to 1927.[9]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Bardon, Carol and Jonathan (1988). If Ever You Go to Dublin Town. Belfast: The Blackstaff Press. p. 80. ISBN 0-85640-397-0.
  2. ↑ Antient Concert Rooms
  3. ↑ Stephenson, Patrick J. (September–November 1942). "The Antient Concert Rooms". Dublin Historical Record. V (1). Retrieved 23 May 2014.
  4. ↑ Fargnoli & Gillespie, A. Nicholas & Michael Patrick (2006). Critical Companion to James Joyce: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work. Infobase Publishing. p. 241. ISBN 1438108486.
  5. ↑ The James Joyce Centre Dublin. "W B Yeats". On 8 May 1899 Joyce attended the first performance of WB Yeats’ play The Countess Cathleen. Joyce Centre Dublin. Retrieved 23 May 2014.
  6. ↑ Bruce, Stewart. "Joyce, James Augustine Aloysius (1882–1941)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2007. Retrieved 23 May 2014.
  7. ↑ "Clippings". The Irish Times: 2. 11 August 1877. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
  8. ↑ Wallace, W. J. R. (2004). Faithful to our Trust : A history of the Erasmus Smith Trust and the High School, Dublin (PDF). Blackrock, Co. Dublin: Columba Press. pp. 100, 121, 172–3, 272. ISBN 1-85607-4668.
  9. ↑ "MCNAMARA, THOMAS FRANCIS"Irish Architectural Archive, Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720-1940. (accessed 18 Nov 2010)

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Coordinates: 53°20′40″N 6°15′04″W / 53.34444°N 6.25111°W / 53.34444; -6.25111

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