Pearse Street () is a major street in
Dublin
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. It runs from
College Street in the west to MacMahon Bridge in the east, and is one of the city's longest streets. It has several different types of residential and commercial property along its length.
History
The street is named after the
Irish revolutionaries
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,
Patrick Pearse
Patrick Henry Pearse (also known as Pádraig or Pádraic Pearse; ; 10 November 1879 – 3 May 1916) was an Irish teacher, barrister, Irish poetry, poet, writer, Irish nationalism, nationalist, Irish republicanism, republican political activist a ...
and his brother
William
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. It first appears as Moss Lane,
then Channel Row. It was constructed to connect the city centre to the
Grand Canal Dock
Grand Canal Dock () is a Southside (Dublin), Southside area near the city centre of Dublin, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is located on the border of eastern Dublin 2 and the westernmost part of Ringsend in Dublin 4, surrounding the Grand Cana ...
, primarily for commercial traffic. It was named Great Brunswick Street for the
House of Brunswick, holders of the British and Irish crown from 1714 to 1901.
The Dublin Oil Gas Company was established in 1824 with its main premises on Great Brunswick Street. This eventually became the Academy Cinema. The Brunswick and Shamrock Pneumatic Cycle Factory was at No. 2. The Lyceum Theatre planned to build a new building on Great Brunswick Street at its junction with Tara Street. Plans were submitted in 1884 for a 2,500-capacity venue, but this was later abandoned.
The 1936
Pearse Street fire at number 164, then the Exide Batteries factory, killed three Dublin firefighters. A plaque marks the site of the building.
Properties
The western end of Pearse Street meets College Street near Townsend Street. Here, on the northern side, there is a
Garda station, faced with Leinster granite from Ballybrew and designed by Andrew Robinson in the
Scottish Baronial style
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and featuring "keystone cops" in the form of carved heads of policemen as corbels.
It opened in 1912. This is followed by the old headquarters of the
Dublin Fire Brigade
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at the Central Fire Station, which opened on 13 December 1907. The building was designed by C. J. McCarthy in an Italian-Romanesque style in red brick and cost £21,840. The premises closed in 1988, and was later converted into apartments and a hotel. Office buildings are on the southern side of the street, followed by
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. The offices of the
Department of Social Protection
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are on the site of the
Queen's Theatre, Dublin. Another building of note is O'Neill's Pub, at No. 37, which dates from the 1850s and was still in the same ownership as of the 2000s.
St. Mark's church was constructed in 1729 in a classical style. It was purchased by Trinity College in 1971 and used as an additional library premise. It was sold to the
Assemblies of God
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in 1987 and was renovated in the early 21st century as part of a
FÁS
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-backed youth training scheme. It is the oldest building on the street.
The
DART crosses Pearse street beside St. Mark's, and east of that is the former Antient Concert Rooms where
W. B. Yeats
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's play ''
The Countess Cathleen
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'' was first performed on 8 May 1899 and
James Joyce
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won an award for singing at the
Feis Ceoil
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16 May 1904. No. 43 is the former
Erasmus Smith Commercial and Civil Service School, a bank and pub bracket the junction with Lombard Street, with
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and the
railway station
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and Goldsmith Hall opposite each other on
Westland Row
Westland Row () is a street on the Southside, Dublin, Southside of Dublin, Ireland.
Location
The street runs along the east end of Trinity College Dublin.
History
Westland Row first appeared on maps in 1776. It was originally known ...
.
St Andrew's Resource Centre is at Nos. 114-116 and provides various
adult education
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programmes and daycare for the elderly. It originally opened as a Roman Catholic school in 1897, accommodating 1,200 children. The school closed in 1972 and reopened in its current form in 1989.
Further east along the street is the Pearse Street Public Library at Nos. 138-144, which has supported the Gilbert Library, a research facility, and the City Archives, on its first floor since 2003. The building was designed by C. J. McCarthy and opened in 1909. It is constructed from Mount Charles sandstone and Ballinasloe limestone and built in a classical style. The building has been modified several times and was extensively redesigned internally to support the City Archives.
Beyond the library, the street becomes residential. The Winter Garden is a set of apartments on the corner of Pearse Street and Erne Street. It was designed by Paul O'Dwyer and opened in 1999 and designed around a glazed internal street. Shortly beyond this is
Pearse Square (formerly Queen Square). The square was constructed in 1839 but was slow to develop; there is still an undeveloped plot at the south-east end by Pearse Street.
The eastern extent of Pearse Street holds the Gallery Quay apartments and MacMahon Bridge at
Grand Canal Dock
Grand Canal Dock () is a Southside (Dublin), Southside area near the city centre of Dublin, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is located on the border of eastern Dublin 2 and the westernmost part of Ringsend in Dublin 4, surrounding the Grand Cana ...
, where numerous high-tech offices and high-rise apartment buildings can be found, in an area sometimes dubbed
Silicon Docks
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. The street becomes Ringsend Road, and later Bridge Street around
Ringsend Bridge
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, on its continuation into
Dublin 4
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.
The Cuban embassy is located on this street within the Westland Square premises at number 32.
The Royal Irish Yacht Club had premises on Clarendon Buildings, Great Brunswick Street from the early 1830s prior to their move to Kingstown.
People
Patrick Pearse
Patrick Henry Pearse (also known as Pádraig or Pádraic Pearse; ; 10 November 1879 – 3 May 1916) was an Irish teacher, barrister, Irish poetry, poet, writer, Irish nationalism, nationalist, Irish republicanism, republican political activist a ...
(also known as Padraig), one of the executed leaders of the
1916 Rising
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, was born at No. 27 Great Brunswick Street on 10 November 1879. His father James established an ecclesiastical architecture and sculpture firm (fashioning stone and marble altars and gravestones) at the site. The original house still stands as a memorial, while the Trinity City Hotel occupies the back garden.
Architect
Thomas Francis McNamara
Thomas Francis McNamara, RIAI, RIBA(1867–1947) was an Irish Roman Catholic ecclesiastical architect active throughout the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century in Ireland who designed many hospitals and Roman Catholic churches. He st ...
had offices at No. 192 Great Brunswick Street from 1911 to 1927.
["MCNAMARA, THOMAS FRANCI]
''Irish Architectural Archive, Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720-1940.''
(accessed 18 Nov 2010)
Oscar Wilde
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was baptised at St Mark's in 1854.
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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External links
Link with details of St. Marks' ChurchViews critical of TCDs' maintenance of part of Pearse Street
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