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MONTAGUE STREET AND LANE

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CONNECTING HARCOURT STREET AND WEXFORD STREET

DUBLIN SOUTHSIDE

Montague Street is a short street in Dublin 2, Ireland, located between Camden Street (and Wexford Street) and Harcourt Street. The immediate area is well known for restaurants, bars, and shops, and is also home to a number of businesses and offices.

Montague Street was laid out in 1770 and named after George Montague Dunk, 3rd Earl of Halifax, 1716 – 1771. Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. However, according to some historians, this only applied to the western end of the current street.

NOT FAR FROM BOLTON STREET COLLEGE

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BOLTON STREET – HENRIETTA PLACE – CAPEL STREET – RYDERS ROW

I live across the street from Bolton Street College – or to be more accurate my front door is across the street from the building as my address is Henrietta Place rather than Bolton Street.

Bolton Street College in Dublin was a technical college that existed from 1911 to 1992. It was founded by the Dublin Corporation and was originally located on Bolton Street, Dublin 1. The college later moved to its current campus on Grangegorman Road, Dublin 7.

Bolton Street College offered a wide range of courses, including engineering, architecture, building, and the built environment. It was one of the leading technical colleges in Ireland, and its graduates went on to work in a wide range of industries.

The college was also a center for research and development. It had its own research laboratories, and its staff were involved in a number of important research projects.

Bolton Street College closed in 1992, when it merged with other technical colleges in Dublin to form the Dublin Institute of Technology. However, the Bolton Street campus remains an important part of the DIT, and it continues to be a centre for education and research in the built environment.

The Bolton Street campus is a beautiful and historic building. It was designed by CJ McCarthy and was built in 1908. The building is a three-storey neo-classical structure, and it is decorated with plaster representations of artisan figures. The figures are casts from John Henry Foley’s models for figures at the base of the Albert Memorial on Leinster Lawn.

The Bolton Street campus is home to a number of important facilities, including lecture theatres, laboratories, workshops, a library, and a students’ union. The campus is also home to a number of research centres, including the Centre for Architecture, Building and Environment and the Centre for Sustainable Energy.

The legacy of Bolton Street College continues to inspire and motivate people today. The college’s commitment to education and research is still relevant today, and its graduates continue to make a difference in the world.

Here are some notable alumni of Bolton Street College:

Kevin O’Connor, architect and urban planner
Michael Smith, engineer and former CEO of Intel Ireland
Mary O’Brien, engineer and former president of Engineers Ireland
Deirdre Clune, former Minister for Education and Skills

A WALK ALONG WEXFORD STREET AND CAMDEN STREET

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ALSO PHOTOGRAPHED THE BLEEDING HORSE PUBLIC HOUSE

ABOUT THE BLEEDING HOUSE PUBLIC HOUSE

Camden Street links Ranelagh/Rathmines (Dublin 6) to the southern city centre of Dublin via Wexford Street. It is divided into Camden Street Upper (southern end) and Camden Street Lower (northern end).

The name is likely derived from the Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden (1714-94). The fact that the street name first appears on maps in 1778 would rule it out as originating from his son John Pratt, Marquess Camden (1759-1840) who became Lord Lieutenent of Ireland in 1795. An attempt to connect the name to Saint Kevin (Old Irish Cóemgen) is regarded as spurious.

A prominent company located on Upper Camden St for over a century was Earley and Company (1861–1975). They were ecclesiastical furnishings and stained glass manufacturers and retailers. The firm was one of the largest and most prestigious ecclesiastical decorators both in Ireland and the U.K.

An intact Edwardian shop interior existed at number 39, Carvill’s Off Licence until the early 21st century. The Bleeding Horse pub is also a notable building, with a public house sitting on the site since 1648. It is mentioned in the work of Sean O’Casey, and both James Clarence Mangan and Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu were patrons.

There were two cinemas on the street: The Camden Cinema and the Theatre De Luxe. The Camden Cinema was located at 55 Upper Camden St., where the headquarters of Concern Worldwide is now located. It closed around 1912. The Theatre De Luxe was opened in 1912 by Maurice Elliman, a Jew who escaped the pogroms in Eastern Europe. The first building was designed by Frederick Hayes, MRIAI, and built by George Squire & Co. It was enlarged and rebuilt in 1920. The exterior was remodelled in Art deco style in 1934. It closed in 1975. The building is now a hotel, Hotel De Luxe, and a night-club.

CHARLEMONT SQUARE 26 MARCH 2023

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CHARLEMONT STREET REGENERATION PROJECT

This was my first time to visit this new complex.

Charlemont Square is the second phase of the transformative Charlemont Street regeneration placemaking project in the heart of Dublin 2. This €210 million mixed-use development involved the reimaging of c.13,000m2 – mostly derelict – space on a logistically challenging site close to the city centre. The creation of a focal point for the local community was a key ambition of this development, which commenced in January 2018 and was completed in December 2022.

Works consisted of the demolition and site clearance of four existing residential blocks, including specialist asbestos removal, prior to the construction of six multi-storey blocks.

This phase of regeneration delivered 96 apartments, 355,000ft² of Grade A office space and 30,000ft² of retail space for the local area.

The residential portion of this project comprises a unique collection of one, two and three-bed apartments, designed and delivered to a high quality.

The office incorporates Grade 2 basement over two levels, cast in-situ RC frame with bespoke curtain walling and glazing with large areas of brick and stone cladding. Internally, the accommodation provides efficient floor plates with suspended ceilings with 650mm void, 150mm raised access floors and minimised internal columns with 12m clear spans. Roof terraces and tenant facilities including secure basement car parking and bicycle spaces, showers and drying facilities are also provided. The scheme has a WireScore rating of Platinum, LEED Gold, and an A3 BER rating.

At street level, the retail space incorporates convenience retail, food and beverage uses and an art studio, complementing the residential and office accommodation.

[March 2014] The Charlemont Street flat complex near Ranelagh was to have been redeveloped as a public-private partnership scheme including shops, restaurants, offices, as well as 260 new apartments. However, despite beginning demolition, including razing Scott’s 1944 building Ffrench Mullen House, the council had been unable to finalise a deal on the regeneration project. Independent city councillor Mannix Flynn sought to save Ffrench Mullen House, because its demolition was ethically wrong given the block was a “one-off social housing unit, designed by Michael Scott in 1944 during the Emergency”, and that it should be reused. Ffrench Mullen House was named after Madeline Ffrench Mullen who developed the nearby St Ultan’s Hospital for Women and Infants in 1919 in response to the dire socioeconomic conditions in Dublin.

SOUTH WILLIAM STREET

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FEBRUARY 2023

South William Street, runs from the junction with Exchequer Street, Wicklow Street, and St. Andrew’s Street on its northeastern end to the junction of Johnson Place and Stephen Street on its southwestern end.

The street was laid out in 1676 by William Williams and was part of Dublin’s 17th-century expansion beyond its medieval walls. The street has one of the largest and most complete groups of 18th century merchants’ houses in the city. However, M’Cready claims the street is named after King William III.

In 2012, the street was rebranded as being the centre of Dublin’s “Creative Quarter”, an area noted for its “independent design stores, fashion outlets and cafes”. The UK’s Academy of Urbanism has noted that the street has transformed “from the bustling heart of the rag trade to a well-known spot for retail entrepreneurs, start-ups and those in search of a good night out”.

The street is dominated by Powerscourt House, the former Dublin townhouse of Viscount Powerscourt. It was constructed in the 18th century for Richard Wingfield, 3rd Viscount Powerscourt, a member of the Irish House of Lords. The townhouse was the Wingfield family’s urban residence when they were visiting from the Powerscourt Estate in Enniskerry, County Wicklow.

Designed by Robert Mack, it dates from between 1771 and 1774. The court at the rear of the building was created with the addition of three brown-brick office buildings from 1809 to 1811. The townhouse was purchased and redeveloped as a shopping centre between 1978 and 1981 and is now known as the Powerscourt Townhouse Centre.

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