Hmmm.
Anyone?
Lines MUST close at 10.50.
Update:
Dawson Street, Dublin
Sibling of Daedalus writes:
The Royal Hibernian Hotel (top), owned by the Besson family, was Dublin’s oldest hotel, dating from the 18th century. it was demolished in 1984 and was replaced by the Royal Hibernian Way (above) in 1987. Congrats to Nobbley, Bellweather and Kerryview.
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Hibernian Hotel Dawson St
Just so, where the Hibernian Mall sits now…
Indeed
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The old Russell hotel on the Green where the Day-Lewis family used to stay in the 60s
It’s a Starbucks now. Probably.
It probably isn’t, any more.
Where the Clarence is now?
The Clarence?
Fawlty towers?
defo the Hibernian Hotel.
North Star hotel on Amiens St?
That was a big improvement, wasn’t it?
Always though that that’s one fugly building …the new one. Sad that that was going on in 1984.
And that’s enuff of ‘that’ for one morning.
I’d agree there, the original looks, to be honest, pretty lovely. The replacement just looks grey, dull and a lot ugly.
It’s always been a soul-less and dull place. Deliberately avoid it when going from Grafton St. to Dawson or vice versa and go via Duke Street instead.
As I recall, there was a competition to think up a name for the new mall/passageway/whatever. There was some sort of glamorous prize.
Imagine the surprise when the winning name of Royal Hibernian Way was suggested by (as I recall) the wife of a member of the development team. Such imagination!
At the last naming of a new building for a commission that I was at, the people who built the building actually won it. So it’s not unusual for that to happen.
Ha
At least the old hotel is memorialised
I remember my dad talking about this place. Apparently it had a friendly ghost.