what’s in a name?

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    • January 15, 2001 at 8:42 am #704938
      MG
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      Shelbourne to change
      DUBLIN’S Shelbourne Hotel is to lose its name within months. The 196-room, five-star, city-centre hotel, which has been a feature of Dublin life for the past 182 years, is to be renamed the Meridian (Dublin) by its owners, the British Granada group. The move is part of the chain’s decision to rename 300 hotels worldwide to Meridian.

      So whats in a name? is losing the name THE SHELBOURNE detrimental to the history and ciltural fabric of Dublin?

    • January 15, 2001 at 1:55 pm #715471
      JL
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      one hand: no, change is part of the cultural fabric

      other hand: yes, doesn’t globalisation suck

    • January 15, 2001 at 7:30 pm #715472
      dc3
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      Dont worry.
      One more turn of the economic merry-go-round and the suits in Meridian, will divest or deaquisition and it can revert to the Shelbourne name again.

      How many names have been associated with the Belfast Europa?

    • January 17, 2001 at 10:16 am #715473
      GregF
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      It would be very sad to lose it’s name but it’s all part of capitalism and our new found wealth. Things change!

    • January 18, 2001 at 11:20 am #715474
      Anonymous
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      i don’t think people will stop calling it the shelbourne, i won’t anyway.

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