Courting The Dame

Some of the articles over the next couple of months will include

The Story of Sam's Barbers

The Stags Head History

The Moira Hotel

The Exchequer Hotel

The Sugar House

The History of the Mercantile

Dame Street and the lotteries

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The Moira Hotel, 15 Trinity Street & 1 / 2 Dame Lane

The Moira Hotel, 15 Trinity Street & 1&2 Dame Lane Today as you turn the corner from Trinity Street onto Dame Lane opposite the Bankers Pub you will find two great businesses, The Pichet Restaurant, a modern Irish restaurant with a French twist opened for over a decade and one of the few remaining Dry Cleaners in this modern city Excel Dry Cleaning. But they were not always there and in days of old one of Dublin’s most famous hotels was located there, The Moira. This is its story. Sean O’Casey dined here and James Joyce featured it in Chapter 6 of his renowned book Ulysess but its history stretches way back into the 1700’s when a hotel opened first here as the Ulster Hotel later to become known as the St. George Hotel. By the mid-19 th century the hotel was purchased by the Crosbie family who originally owned the name the Moira Hotel when it was located on Sackville Street, now O’Connell Street dating back to 1754. In 1890 owner was Miss B Kelly r...

Kinahan's -The Whiskey That Conquered The Empire

I recently wrote about The Bankers pub on the corner of Trinity Street and Dame Lane and some readers have asked me about the Kinahan Distillery and its Whiskey. Daniel Kinahan was born in the Dublin suburb, then the countryside of Goatstown in 1756. He would create one of the early global successes of Irish business ‘Kinahan’s Whiskey’ and in particular ‘Kinahan’s LL Whiskey’. The Kinahan story begins in 1779 on Trinity Street where today the Bankers public house now stands. He opened his business originally known as ‘Kinahan and Gregg’ and quickly expanded when they purchased the entire stock of wines and spirits from Messers Beatty on Andrew Street. As a grocer he took full advantage of the nearby Sugar House on Dame Court and began to distil whiskey and port. It was an instant success and became a favourite of the Lord Lieutenant in Ireland, the Royal representative in Ireland. By 1807 Charles Lennox, the then Lord Lieutenant was so impressed with their whiskey that L.L. (Lo...

Murder in Dame Lane

Throughout the 1920’s the newspapers reported deaths and murders primarily of a political nature whether inflicted by the Irish on the British forces or visa versa but occasionally a traditional murder, a murder investigation and trial took place in those turbulent times. One such fatal occurrence took place in the early hours of October 27 th 1920. The previous night had seen serious disturbances in the Dame Street and a British military curfew enforced to clear the streets. Depending on the newspaper report in competing publications either the cries of a desperate woman alerted a passing policeman or a phone call to Great Brunswick Street police station (now Pearse Street Garda station) from a local directed the police to Dame Lane. When Sergeant John Nelson arrived in Dame Lane at 2.15am he found the body of thirty one year old Elizabeth Carberry. Known locally as Bessie, the unmarried Ms. Carberry lived at 8 Vicar Street and her lifeless body showed signs of a violent assaul...

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