Established
Built between c.1880 and c.1900.
Pub details
- Address
- 88 MARLBOROUGH STREET
- County
- Dublin
- Eircode
- D01 X267
- Licence reference
- N1081
Building and heritage
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...