Aungier Street
53°20′23″N 6°15′57″W / 53.339856°N 6.265806°W / 53.339856; -6.265806
Aungier Street /ˈeɪndʒər/ is a street on the south side of Dublin, Ireland. It runs north-south as a continuation of South Great George's Street.
It is the location of both a Technological University Dublin[1] and a Dublin Business School campus.[2]
History
Formerly this area was waste ground near the Dublin Carmelite Friary. After the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the monastery's lands were granted to the Aungier family.[3][4]
The street was named after the family of Francis Aungier, 1st Baron Aungier of Longford who developed the street. His name is French and is correctly pronounced [on.ʒje], but modern Dubliners pronounce the street name to rhyme with "danger."[5] When the street was opened in 1661, it was 70 feet (21 m) wide, the widest in the city.[6][7]
Edward Lovett Pearce designed a theatre for the street, built 1733–34 and merged with the Smock Alley Theatre in 1743.[8][9][10][11] The theatre held the title of theatre royal for a period before it was reclaimed by Smock Alley Theatre shortly after with the Aungier Street Playhouse closing around 1750.
St. Peter's Church (Church of Ireland) opened in 1685; it closed in 1950 and was demolished in 1983.[12]
The poet Thomas Moore was born at 12 Aungier Street in 1779.[13][14]
In 1829, Aungier Street was the site of the first meeting room of what would become the Plymouth Brethren.[15]
The Irish republican Simon Donnelly was born on Aungier Street in 1891.[16]
During the Irish War of Independence, it was suggested that Aungier Street (and several others) would be joined to form Cahirmore Road, named for the legendary king Cathair Mór.[17]
Cultural depictions
In 1851, Sheridan Le Fanu wrote a ghost story, "An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street."[18]
Aungier Street appears twice in the work of James Joyce: it is mentioned in "Ivy Day in the Committee Room;"[19] while Leopold Bloom's blinds were purchased at 16 Aungier Street in Ulysses.[20]
See also
References
- ^ Dublin, T. U. "Our Campuses | TU Dublin". tudublin.ie. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
- ^ "DBS Locations in Dublin City Centre | Dublin Business School". www.dbs.ie. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
- ^ "Dublin Street Names". 20 December 2007.
- ^ "Irish Place and Street names". www.fionasplace.net.
- ^ Walsh, Kayla (29 March 2017). "Seven Dublin place names people ALWAYS get wrong". DublinLive.
- ^ Casey, Christine (6 September 2005). Dublin: The City Within the Grand and Royal Canals and the Circular Road with the Phoenix Park. Yale University Press. ISBN 0300109237 – via Google Books.
- ^ Usher, R. (13 March 2012). Protestant Dublin, 1660-1760: Architecture and Iconography. Springer. ISBN 9780230362161 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Irish Builder and Engineer". Howard MacGarvey & Sons. 6 September 1876 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Aungier Street – Revitalising an Historic Neighbourhood" (PDF). Dublin City Council. 13 August 2013. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
- ^ Greene, John C.; Clark, Gladys L. H. (6 September 1993). The Dublin Stage, 1720-1745: A Calendar of Plays, Entertainments, and Afterpieces. Lehigh University Press. ISBN 9780934223225 – via Google Books.
- ^ "CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, AUNGIER STREET, PLAYHOUSE Dictionary of Irish Architects -". www.dia.ie. Retrieved 22 October 2023.
- ^ Report (4 November 1907), "History of St. Peter's Parish Church", The Irish Times, p. 7
- ^ Moore, Thomas (6 September 1879). "The poetical works of Thomas Moore, ed. with mem. and notes by C. Kent. Centenary ed" – via Google Books.
- ^ Gwynn, Stephen Lucius (6 September 1904). Thomas Moore. Library of Alexandria. ISBN 9781465538840 – via Google Books.
- ^ Carter, G., Anglican Evangelicals: Protestant Secessions from the Via Media, c. 1800 – 1850, pp. 199–200, Oxford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-19-827008-9
- ^ "General Registrar's Office". IrishGenealogy.ie. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
- ^ Yeates, Padraig (21 September 2012). A City in Turmoil – Dublin 1919–1921: The War of Independence. Gill & Macmillan Ltd. ISBN 9780717154630 – via Google Books.
- ^ Fanu, Joseph Sheridan le (21 October 2015). An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street. Read Books Ltd. ISBN 9781473377783 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Dubliners, by James Joyce". gutenberg.org. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
- ^ "The Joyce Project : Ulysses : Aungier Street". m.joyceproject.com.
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