Story?

22 thoughts on “Story?”

1. This might help a little – http://comeheretome.com/2011/01/19/220-years-of-history-the-sick-and-indigent-roomkeepers-society/

   • Oh, thank you!

2. I used to listen to a great band called The Sick & Indigent Song Club, they were Dublin based.

3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sick_and_Indigent_Roomkeepers'_Society

   Wikipedia is a start. I’ve been in it once. A family lives/lived there. It’s a pretty outstanding building inside. And of course, next door to the lovely Chez Max.

4. http://bit.ly/RYONwt

5. the story of it is written on the building. buy another pair of glasses.

6. Wikipedia has a bit about it

7. Here’s the Roomkeepers’ website.

   http://roomkeepers.com/

8. Also.. one other interesting fact about the building… before the Roomkeepers took it over it housed the family of the State Physician. Who happened to be Robert Emmet’s dad.

   http://www.dublincastle.ie/HistoryEducation/History/Chapter13The1798Rebellion/

9. Anyone remember the private member’s club there? The House, set up by Lu Thornley around 2002 and I think it lasted a year or two…. Good times.

   • I think it was more like 2000 or 2001. I was at a few parties there

   • My most cherished possession for a while was the black card with the mushroom they gave you so that you could get in no questions asked. Closest I ever came to being cool. Good times indeed.

10. .features several times in Finnegans Wake including: … FW006.04….hopes and the strupithump of his ville’s indigenous romekeepers…

11. Don’t kill people.

12. My bike was stolen from right outside. The pole it was stolen from is gone now (since the recent pedestrianisation).

    • I get the impression you’re a bit of a single-issue campaigner.

    • Don’t tell me the pole was also stolen. Sounds like a risky spot!

13. That house produced Maud Reardon of http://maudincahoots.com. Very talented. I think her dad was an actor. But they own it anyway…

14. Is an actor, surely? Or was that a ghost in Green Street in Green Street?

    • The actor and broadcaster Danny Reardon lives there. Prior to that, it was briefly a rather debauched private members’ club called “The House” run by a bunch of English trustafarian types. I recall some wild nights there circa-2002 but it didn’t work out and they went back to London I think.

15. I find it rather ironic that the Wiki page credits one of the founders of a charity to help the sick and the poor being of the name James Reilly…… Maybe our more recent Dr. Reilly could learn a thing or two…..

16. Thanks for posting the Tweet here guys, and for all of the info that followed. Interesting Irishman’s Diary here on the charity, and a little about the building, from Hugh Oram:

    http://www.alliancesupport.org/news/archives/000255.html