Eden Quay Dublin

Named after a former Chief Secretary to Ireland William Eden, who asked John Beresford to name a street or a square after him if their combined plans for the improvement of Dublin ever came into being. In a letter to Beresford he wrote: “If our great plans should ever go into execution for the improvement of Dublin, I beg that you will contrive to edge my name into some street or into some square, opening to a bridge, the bank or the four courts.”

1820s – Northumberland Hotel (Liberty Hall), Eden Quay, Dublin

Originally built in the 1820s as the Northumberland Hotel, with a coffee house and hotel.

1829 – Dublin Steam Packet Building, Eden Quay, Dublin

A terrace with original Wide Street Commissioners shopfronts at ground level,

1892 – Mercantile Seaman Office, Eden Quay, Dublin

Architect: J. Howard Pentland

A stern stone-faced building both in material and aspect,

1917 – No.3 Eden Quay, Dublin

Architect: O’Callaghan & Webb

Former public house rebuilt after the Easter Rising of 1916.

1920 – Former Screen Cinema, Eden Quay, Dublin

Architect: T.F. McNamara / Jones & Kelly

Originally rebuilt after the 1916 destruction of this part of Dublin,

1921 – Former Astor Cinema, Eden Quay, Dublin

Architect: Frederick W. Higginbotham

Replacing two buildings destroyed in the 1916 Rising,

1921 – No.2 Eden Quay, Dublin

Architect: T.J. Cullen

A good early 20th century building dating from after the destruction of the area in the 1916 Rising.

1921 – Seamens Institute, Eden Quay, Dublin

Architect: W.M. Mitchell & Sons

The Seamens Institute on the corner of Marlborough Street and Eden Quay is another early 20th century building after the area was decimated during the 1916 Rising.

1922 – No.1 Lower O’Connell Street, Dublin