Pearse Street
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.
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People
Architect Thomas Francis McNamara had offices at No. 192 Great Brunswick Street from 1911 to 1927.[9]
- Frederick Saunders, Chief Pump Monitor, the Dublin Water Department 1931-1942
See also
References
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- ↑ "MCNAMARA, THOMAS FRANCIS"Irish Architectural Archive, Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720-1940. (accessed 18 Nov 2010)
External links
- Map of Pearse Street
- Link with details of St. Marks' Church
- Views critical of TCDs' maintenance of part of Pearse Street
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