1820s – Northumberland Hotel (Liberty Hall), Eden Quay, Dublin
Originally built in the 1820s as Northumberland Hotel, with a coffee house and hotel. Later part of the building was converted into a Turkish baths.
Eden Quay Dublin
Named after a former Chief Secretary to Ireland William Eden, who asked John Beresford to name a street or a square after him if their combined plans for the improvement of Dublin ever came into being. In a letter to Beresford he wrote: “If our great plans should ever go into execution for the improvement of Dublin, I beg that you will contrive to edge my name into some street or into some square, opening to a bridge, the bank or the four courts.”
1829 – Dublin Steam Packet Building, Eden Quay, Dublin
A fine terrace of houses with original Wide Street Commissioner shopfronts at ground level, this building remains in good condition although minus its original glazing pattern.
1892 – Mercantile Seaman Office, Eden Quay, Dublin
Architect: J. Howard Pentland
A stern stone-faced building both in material and aspect, the Mercantile Seaman Office is a late 19th century commercial building in very unusual style.
1917 – No.3 Eden Quay, Dublin
Architect: O’Callaghan & Webb
Former public house rebuilt after the Easter Rising of 1916.
1920 – Former Screen Cinema, Eden Quay, Dublin
Architect: T.F. McNamara / Jones & Kelly
Originally rebuilt after the 1916 destruction of this part of Dublin, as the Corinthian Cinema,
1921 – Former Astor Cinema, Eden Quay, Dublin
Architect: Frederick W. Higginbotham
Replacing two buildings destroyed in the 1916 Rising, Nos. 7-8 Eden Quay was re-constructed as a ballroom and commercial premises.
1921 – No.2 Eden Quay, Dublin
Architect: T.J. Cullen
A good early 20th century building dating from after the destruction of the area in the 1916 Rising.
1921 – Seamens Institute, Eden Quay, Dublin
Architect: W.M. Mitchell & Sons
The Seamens Institute on the corner of Marlborough Street and Eden Quay is another early 20th century building after the area was decimated during the 1916 Rising.
1922 – No.1 Lower O’Connell Street, Dublin
Architect: O’Callaghan & Webb
On the corner of O’Connell Street and Eden Quay, the Irish Nationwide building is a large commercial building more noticeable for its signage than its architecture.
1965 – Liberty Hall, Eden Quay, Dublin
Architect: Desmond Ri O’Kelly
Definitely not the most popular building in Dublin but for many years it was the tallest,
