CASSIDY'S BAR Heritage

🏭 Heritage-listed building

Built: c.1790 · NIAH rating: Regional

Westmoreland Street was developed by the Wide Streets Commission, between 1799 and 1805, to create a thoroughfare from O’Connell Bridge to Trinity College. The street facades were prepared by Henry Aaron Baker (1753-1836). This building, a purpose-built retail unit with a mezzanine level and residential accommodation over, was part of Baker’s scheme, and in scale and massing it retains a strong sense of the overall design . It underwent alterations, to designs by Robinson, Moore, Keefe & Donnelly in 1917, to serve as the offices of the Freeman’s Journal. During the nineteenth century, it was the foremost nationalist paper in the country, and until 1916 its offices had been located on Princes Street. The building played an important role in a turbulent era in Irish history, particularly during the War of Independence, when the paper was briefly suppressed. The façade, originally plain brick, was rendered and had stucco detailing applied, differentiating it from its neighbours.

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