Dominick Street Dublin

This was developed by the Dominick family in the 1750s and for a time was very fashionable with some fine houses being developed. The street went into terminal decline after the Act of Union and most of the houses had become slums before Dublin Corporation flats replaced them. William Rowan Hamilton (1805-65), the mathematician and inventor of quaternions was born in No.36, while the writer Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73) was born at No.45, and Arthur Griffith (1871-1922) was born in No.4.

1750 – Dominick Street, Dublin

This was developed by the Dominick family in the 1750s and for a time was very fashionable with some fine house being developed.

1760 – No. 20 Dominick Street, Dublin

Architect: Robert West

Robert West the stuccodore who designed many of the finest interiors in the city lived at No.

1861 – St Saviour’s Church, Dominick Street, Dublin

Architect: J.J. McCarthy

St Saviour’s Church is perhaps the finest church by J.J. McCarthy in Dublin even though it was never completed as planned.

1884 – Uncompleted designs for St. Saviour’s Priory, Dublin

Architect: John L. Robinson

Design for an priory with enclosed quadrangle adjacent to St. Saviour’s Church. Built in a modified form,

1885 – St. Saviour’s Dominican Convent, Dominick Street, Dublin

Architect: John L. Robinson

Adjacent to the fine St Saviour’s Church by J.J. McCarthy is the monastery designed by John Loftus Robinson in 1885 from the funds that was originally intended to add a tower and spire to the church.

1949 – Hendrons, Dominick St., Dublin

Architect: Václav Gunzl

Former manufacturing plant, now artist studios and light commercial space. Václav Otto Gunzel (1900-1980), born near Pilzen,