Aungier Street is a street on the south side of
Dublin,
Ireland. It runs north-south as a continuation of
South Great George's Street
South Great George's Street is a street in south-central Dublin, Ireland.
History
Early history and naming
The area is associated with Early Scandinavian Dublin. Four burials excavated near South Great George's Street were also associated ...
.
It is the location of both a
Technological University Dublin and a
Dublin Business School campus.
History
Formerly this area was waste ground near the Dublin Carmelite Friary. After the
Dissolution of the Monasteries, the monastery's lands were granted to the Aungier family.
The street was named after the family of
Francis Aungier, 1st Baron Aungier of Longford who developed the street. His name is French and is correctly pronounced , but modern Dubliners pronounce the street name to rhyme with "danger." When the street was opened in 1661, it was wide, the widest in the city.
Edward Lovett Pearce designed a
theatre for the street, built 1733–34 and merged with the
Smock Alley Theatre in 1743.
(
Church of Ireland) opened in 1685; it closed in 1950 and was demolished in 1983.
The poet
Thomas Moore
Thomas Moore (28 May 1779 – 25 February 1852) was an Irish writer, poet, and lyricist celebrated for his ''Irish Melodies''. Their setting of English-language verse to old Irish tunes marked the transition in popular Irish culture from Irish ...
was born at 12 Aungier Street in 1779.
In 1829, Aungier Street was the site of the first meeting room of what would become the
Plymouth Brethren
The Plymouth Brethren or Assemblies of Brethren are a low church and non-conformist Christian movement whose history can be traced back to Dublin, Ireland, in the mid to late 1820s, where they originated from Anglicanism. The group emphasizes ...
.
The
Irish republican
Irish republicanism ( ga, poblachtánachas Éireannach) is the political movement for the unity and independence of Ireland under a republic. Irish republicans view British rule in any part of Ireland as inherently illegitimate.
The develop ...
Simon Donnelly was born on Aungier Street in 1891.
During the
Irish War of Independence
The Irish War of Independence () or Anglo-Irish War was a guerrilla war fought in Ireland from 1919 to 1921 between the Irish Republican Army (IRA, the army of the Irish Republic) and British forces: the British Army, along with the quasi-mil ...
, it was suggested that Aungier Street (and several others) would be joined to form ''Cahirmore Road'', named for the legendary king
Cathair Mór.
Cultural depictions
In 1851,
Sheridan Le Fanu wrote a
ghost story
A ghost story is any piece of fiction, or drama, that includes a ghost, or simply takes as a premise the possibility of ghosts or characters' belief in them."Ghost Stories" in Margaret Drabble (ed.), ''Oxford Companion to English Literature'' ...
, "An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street."
Aungier Street appears twice in the work of
James Joyce: it is mentioned in "
Ivy Day in the Committee Room
''Hedera'', commonly called ivy (plural ivies), is a genus of 12–15 species of evergreen climbing or ground-creeping woody plants in the family Araliaceae, native to western, central and southern Europe, Macaronesia, northwestern Africa and ...
;"
while
Leopold Bloom's
blinds were purchased at 16 Aungier Street in
''Ulysses''.
See also
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List of streets and squares in Dublin
This is a list of notable streets and squares in Dublin, Ireland.
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References Notes
Sources
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External linksStreetnames of DublinaArchiseekArchitecture of Ireland— English-Irish list of Dublin street names aLeathanach baile Sh ...
References
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Streets in Dublin (city)
1661 establishments in Ireland