D'Olier Street ( ; ) is a street in the southern city-centre of
Dublin
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, the capital of
Ireland
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. It and
Westmoreland Street are two broad streets whose northern ends meet at the southern end of
O'Connell Bridge over the
River Liffey. Its southern end meets
Fleet Street
Fleet Street is a street in Central London, England. It runs west to east from Temple Bar, London, Temple Bar at the boundary of the City of London, Cities of London and City of Westminster, Westminster to Ludgate Circus at the site of the Lo ...
, Townsend Street, College Street and
Pearse Street.
History
The street is named after Jeremiah D'Olier (1745–1817), a
Huguenot goldsmith and a founder of the
Bank of Ireland. D'Olier was the
Sheriff of Dublin City in 1788 and a member of the
Wide Streets Commission. The street was one of the last major interventions in the Dublin city plan to be executed by the Wide Streets Commissioners.
Notable addresses
From 1895 to 2006, ''
Irish Times'' was based in D'Olier Street, leading the paper to be nicknamed ''The Old Lady of D'Olier Street''. The paper is now based in
Tara Street.
is located at 2 D'Olier Street. This office development was extended in 1968, by the same developer as O'Connell Bridge House,
John Byrne. Alongside D'Olier House these modern office blocks surround the former headquarters of the
Dublin Gas Company, a rare surviving
art deco
Art Deco, short for the French (), is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design that first Art Deco in Paris, appeared in Paris in the 1910s just before World War I and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920 ...
building in Dublin, which was also designed by
Desmond FitzGerald. D'Olier House has been leased by the Department of Social Welfare since shortly after its completion.
In 1830,
Samuel Lover was secretary of the Royal Hibernian Academy and lived at number 9 D'Olier Street.
In 1891
James Franklin Fuller designed the D'Olier Chambers building of yellow brick and terracotta for the
Gallaher Tobacco Company.
Manchester United opened a team store on the street in 2000 having signed a 15-year lease at €520,000 per annum.
[ It closed in 2002. The lease expired in August 2015.][
A number of nightclubs have operated on the street, including Club XXI and Redz in the 2000s. Tramline, at number 21, was the only club in operation on the street.
The Dublin central clinic of the Irish Blood Transfusion Service is based on the 2nd Floor of LaFayette House on the street. As of 2013, the IBTS were renting the second and third floors of the building at a fee of €105,000 per annum.][ Developed in the 1890s for the Liverpool and Lancashire Insurance Company and designed by architect ]John Joseph O'Callaghan
John Joseph O'Callaghan (1838 – 2 November 1905) was an Irish architect who designed buildings in both England and Ireland.
Life
O'Callaghan was born in County Cork, Ireland. After training in Cork he came to Dublin to join the practice o ...
, it was described as a " Portland stone baronial exercise with Gothic and Ruskinian leanings."[ It was redeveloped in the late 1990s when the three top floors of the building were converted into 14 apartments. The National Wax Museum Plus has occupied the ground floor since 2017.
]
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Streets in Dublin (city)