History
In 1769, Isaac Ambrose Eccles leased a parcel of land on the north side of Eccles Street to Daniel Goodwin, a carpenter. This became the site of numbers 6–8 Eccles Street. John Darley, a stone-cutter, leased the adjoining land, the site of numbers 1–5. The two men seem to have collaborated in building a row of houses, each 20 feet (6.1 m) wide, with three storeys above a basement. Margaret Reed acquired the property at 7 Eccles Street from Goodwin on 29 April 1771, along with Numbers 6 and 8 (the entire premises measuring 60 feet fronting Eccles Street with 200 feet to the rear). [a]
From the mid-19th century the wealthier residents of Dublin began to move further from the city centre, and the houses in the area often had multiple occupancy. Before World War I (1914–18) the street was still part of a quiet, respectable middle-class neighbourhood. In 1904, the house was not occupied, so Joyce was able to make it Bloom's home. 7 Eccles Street was designated "Tenements" in Thom's Directory in 1937, indicating a very poor condition. In 1958, the building was occupied by seven very poor families. Flora H. Mitchell painted the house in the 1960s. Anthony Burgess spent three days in February 1965 with a film crew to make part of a BBC television programme on Joyce. The building was abandoned, with holes in the roof and windows at the rear gutted.
The house at 7 Eccles Street, now owned by the Dominican College, was demolished in April 1967. In July 1975 the property and others beside it were sold to the Mater Hospital Pools Society.
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The Mater Private Hospital is a private hospital business. Its main hospital is located just to the east of the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital in Dublin, Ireland. In addition to the main hospital in Dublin, the business has a hospital in Cork, cancer treatment centres in Limerick and Liverpool and various out-patient clinics.
The James Joyce Centre is a museum and cultural centre in Dublin, Ireland, dedicated to promoting an understanding of the life and works of James Joyce. It opened to the public in June 1996.
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John Ryan (1925–1992) was an Irish artist, broadcaster, publisher, critic, editor, and publican.
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Dick's Coffee House was a significant Irish coffeehouse in the 17th and 18th century.
South Great George's Street is a street in south-central Dublin, Ireland.
Eccles Street is a street in Dublin, Ireland.
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Achmet Borumborad, Achmet Borumbadad was the assumed name of an eccentric medical con-artist, or quack, operating in late 18th-century Dublin, Ireland. He succeeded in gathering financial support for the construction of a Turkish bath on the banks of the River Liffey in the city. Purportedly a doctor, Borumborad claimed to have been born in Constantinople (Istanbul) from which he had subsequently fled. In reality, he was the fictitious creation of one Patrick Joyce of Kilkenny, or possibly a William Cairns, or Kearns, of Dublin. Adopting the persona of a native Turk, his unusual dress style, turban, and exotic affectations attracted much attention in the city at the time, and he was noted as "the first Turk who had ever walked the streets of Dublin in his native costume."
