NORTH GREAT GEORGE'S STREET

Many Dubliners are unaware that there is a Great George's Street on the North side of the city.

When I was sixteen years of age I was scheduled to attend a job interview with a business in North George's Street . I has assumed that North Georges Street was an extension of South Great George's Street.

I arrived in George's Street South with about an hour to spare and was unable to find the company in question. I asked many people but no one could help and then with about thirty minutes to spare I phoned the company [in those day there were no mobile phones and very few phone kiosks] and asked for directions but they told me not bother turning up as they did not tolerate people who were not on-time even thought I would have been on time if I got a taxi. As my mother said I was better off not working for such an employer.

Composed of grandly scaled brick terraces and overlooked by Belvedere House, North Great George’s Street remains one of the handsomest streets in north Dublin’s ever-diminishing Georgian streetscape. While its eighteenth-century reputation as an enclave of ‘polite’ living is confirmed by property leases which record the names of distinguished former residents – including Emilia, Dowager Viscountess Powerscourt and Valentine Browne, 1 Earl of Kenmare – the history of its development also provides an instructive preĢcis of late eighteenth-century building and decorative practices.




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