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THE CONFESSION BOX Heritage

88 MARLBOROUGH STREET, Dublin

Address88 MARLBOROUGH STREET
CountyDublin
EircodeD01 X267
Websitec11407968.wixsite.com/ryan
Licence refN1081

🏭 Heritage-listed building

NIAH building record

Built: c.1880 · NIAH rating: Regional

This well-presented licensed premises, with its elaborate late Victorian pub-front, is an excellent example of its type, with the recent decorative leadwork above the coved fascia maintaining this high-quality standard. Dionysius Lardner (1793-1859), editor of "Cabinet Cyclopedia", a popularizer of science in Ireland, was born and lived at a house at this address in the late eighteenth century. He was the father of the playwright, Dion Boucicault (1820-90), who was most well known for his perennially popular play "The Colleen Bawn". During the War of Independence (1919-21), sympathetic...

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Established

Built between c.1880 and c.1900.

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This well-presented licensed premises, with its elaborate late Victorian pub-front, is an excellent example of its type, with the recent decorative leadwork above the coved fascia maintaining this high-quality standard.

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