Aungier Street
Aungier Street /ˈeɪndʒər/ is a street on the southside of Dublin, Ireland. It runs north-south as a continuation of South Great George's Street.
Businesses on Aungier Street | |
Native name | Sráid Aungier (Irish) |
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Namesake | Francis Aungier, 1st Baron Aungier of Longford and family |
Length | 350 m (1,150 ft) |
Width | 18 metres (59 ft) |
Location | Dublin, Ireland |
Postal code | D02 |
Coordinates | 53.339856°N 6.265806°W |
north end | South Great George's Street, Stephen Street |
south end | Bishop Street, Redmond's Hill, Digges Street Upper |
Construction | |
Inauguration | 1661 |
Other | |
Known for | Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church, Dublin Business School, cafés, pubs, shops |
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.[1][2]
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."[3] When the street was opened in 1661, it was 70 feet (21 m) wide, the widest in the city.[4][5]
Edward Lovett Pearce designed a theatre for the street, built 1733–34 and merged with the Smock Alley Theatre in 1743.[6][7][8]
St. Peter's Church (Church of Ireland) opened in 1685; it closed 1950 and was demolished in 1983.[9]
The poet Thomas Moore was born at 12 Aungier Street in 1779.[10][11]
In 1829, Aungier Street was the site of the first meeting-room of what would become the Plymouth Brethren.[12]
The Irish republican Simon Donnelly was born on Aungier Street in 1891.[13]
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.[14]
Cultural depictions
In 1851, Sheridan Le Fanu wrote a ghost story, "An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street."[15]
Aungier Street appears twice in the work of James Joyce: it is mentioned in "Ivy Day in the Committee Room;"[16] while Leopold Bloom's blinds were purchased at 16 Aungier Street in Ulysses.[17]
See also
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References
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- "Irish Place and Street names". www.fionasplace.net.
- Walsh, Kayla (March 29, 2017). "Seven Dublin place names people ALWAYS get wrong". DublinLive.
- Casey, Christine (September 6, 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. (March 13, 2012). Protestant Dublin, 1660-1760: Architecture and Iconography. Springer. ISBN 9780230362161 – via Google Books.
- "Irish Builder and Engineer". Howard MacGarvey & Sons. September 6, 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. (September 6, 1993). The Dublin Stage, 1720-1745: A Calendar of Plays, Entertainments, and Afterpieces. Lehigh University Press. ISBN 9780934223225 – via Google Books.
- Report (4 November 1907), "History of St. Peter's Parish Church", The Irish Times, p. 7
- Moore, Thomas (September 6, 1879). "The poetical works of Thomas Moore, ed. with mem. and notes by C. Kent. Centenary ed" – via Google Books.
- Gwynn, Stephen Lucius (September 6, 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 (September 21, 2012). A City in Turmoil – Dublin 1919–1921: The War of Independence. Gill & Macmillan Ltd. ISBN 9780717154630 – via Google Books.
- Fanu, Joseph Sheridan le (October 21, 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.