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sheilscharity.ie

"Around 25 years ago, sadly the original Sheils buildings in Dublin had fallen into disrepair and were not up to standard.

A developer bought over the original buildings and constructed 27 new houses and apartments, fully up to modern standards."

…and a splendid bicycle! 😀👍

Built in 1868 per the DIA.

Today's word is Ruskinian.

dia.ie

Also at Archiseek www.archiseek.com

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The Sheils' Institution comprised of 24 self contained almshouses built circa 1869 by Charles Sheils Almshouses Charity for poor ladies. A wealthy merchant from County Down, Sheils devoted his life and money into helping the elderly particularly women after the death of his own wife.

Evidently originally called Exchequer Street ...

... In October 1837, property owners on the eastern end of Exchequer Street petitioned the Wide Streets Commission to rename their section of the street, aiming to shed the area's longstanding poor reputation that deterred high-quality tenants. The Commission granted the request, officially designating the eastern portion towards Grafton Street as Wicklow Street; the origin of the name "Wicklow" lacks clear documentation but may derive from the nearby County Wicklow ... "

And ...

"... At Nos. 6-8, the Wicklow Hotel—later known as Glendenning House—served as an early 20th-century hospitality venue, extensively remodelled circa 1907 by architect George O'Connor into a seven-bay four-storey structure with commercial elements.[21] Further alterations in the 1940s and 1950s, including a 1945 front wall rebuild by Thomas McNamara with concrete dressings and a circa 1950 partial reconstruction, adapted it for mixed retail and pub use while retaining its carriage archway. The site held cultural significance, hosting Dublin publisher Fergus O'Connor, who operated from there, producing nationalist postcards, early writings by Seán O'Casey, and related materials amid Ireland's independence struggles; O'Connor's imprisonment post-Easter Rising highlights its ties to nationalist circles. ...

More at - grokipedia.com/page/wicklow_street

Streetview.

maps.app.goo.gl/Vos2zNtgEciM9tEM7

Crikey! ...

"The Wicklow Hotel was a regular meeting point and place of leisure for Michael Collins and his associates who frequented the hotel for midday dinner or evening drinks, where all the staff knew them.
On the 28th of January 1921, the head porter of the Wicklow Hotel was shot dead in the hallway of the hotel. All eye witness statements led to Collins and his men being behind the execution.
But why would Collins be involved in the shooting of head porter Doran? Because Collins and his men had been informed that Doran was also working as a spy for the British, providing information to the Deputy Chief of British Intelligence in Ireland, Colonel Hill Dillon."

From - marysbar.ie/our-history/

Edit: Via Trove the porter was called William Doran - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/23515885
Could he be the man in the doorway ?!

www.dia.ie/works/view/39202/building/CO.+DUBLIN%2C+DUBLIN...

The dia confirms 1907 remodelling, and this is the 7 bay result, so after 1907. Does not look new here, but the lady at left looks like prewar fashion...

I’d say he’s getting it ready for some bowling.

Somewhere near the Marine Hotel, Sutton Cross ?? Googlesphere - goo.gl/maps/26jpzKbqMNveNq6J7 Satellite 3D - www.google.com/maps/@53.3892929,-6.1132911,71a,35y,123.65...

"The Hotel was built in 1897 in what was a sleepy outlying area of Dublin City. The Hotel was then known as the Golfers Hotel later becoming the Strand Hotel and finally in 1913 the Marine Hotel. It was one of the first businesses to have a telephone, its number being “Sutton 25”. The Gerarty sisters owned and managed the Hotel until 1959 when it was purchased by Oswald Johnson who built a seawater indoor swimming pool, a most unique feature at the time. ..." From - www.marinehotel.ie/en/the-hotel/ [possibly a wild goose chase]

The 25" map calls it the "Strand Hotel". The 1901 tram to Howth would be visible in the photo if it was built, so possibly before 1901. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_of_Howth_Tramway

Gardens for a very newly built row of houses, by the looks of it.