Wolfe Tone Street Dublin

Wolfe Tone Street was formerly Stafford Street after the Earl of Stafford – William Wentworth, but is now named after the patriot Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763-1798) who lived at No.44 as a child. The park alongside was originally the churchyard of St Mary’s Church by Sir William Robinson. An architectural competition was held in 1998 to redevelop the space as a public plaza.

1865 – Axa Insurance, Mary Street, Dublin

Architect: William G. Murray

Designed as a warehouse for a local merchant Patrick Beakey,

1998 – Wolfe Tone Square, Jervis Street, Dublin

Architect: Peter Cody

The parish of St. Mary’s was large and wealthy and the graveyard became so overcrowded by the mid-nineteenth-century that ‘in order to make room for others,

Wolfe Tone Street Dublin

1865 – Axa Insurance, Mary Street, Dublin

1998 – Wolfe Tone Square, Jervis Street, Dublin

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