Focus on the Georgian North City. The Dublin Arts Festival began in 1970, instigated by a group of university students. The festival grew over the next ten years to become an annual event, highlighting different areas of the city such as the Liberties (1972), the…
READ ARTICLE > July 6th 2015Hengler’s Grand Cirque had a base in Dublin at the Rotunda Gardens, where it performed during the 1880s and 1890s, as well as premises in Glasgow, latterly at Sauchiehall Street. As shown in this 1896 programme from the collections of Dublin City Library and Archive,…
READ ARTICLE > October 14th 2014On 17 July 1784, the Foundation Stone of the New Assembly Rooms, Cavendish Row was laid. These rooms, designed by Richard Johnston, were the last eighteenth century addition to the Rotunda, providing new entertainment space in Dublin. The larger of the two-storey blocks contained a Supper…
READ ARTICLE > July 17th 2014In 1748 Dr. Bartholomew Mosse leased four acres and one rood on the north side of Great Britain Street to erect a new maternity hospital, today’s Rotunda Hospital. He had opened a hospital in George’s Lane in 1745, but this new Lying-in Hospital would be…
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