Dick's Coffee House was a significant Irish coffeehouse in the 17th and 18th century. [1] [2] [3]
Dick's was one of Dublin's most famous and long-lasting coffeehouses, established by Richard Pue in the late 17th century, [4] at some point before July 1698. Pue was a bookseller and owned one of Ireland's earliest newspapers, Pue's Occurrences . [5] [6] Dick's was housed in Skinner's Row (now Christchurch Place), on the drawing room floor of Carberry House, which had previously been the home of the Earl of Kildare. [1] In February 1708, Joseph Walker, a Dublin goldsmith, bought the site for the considerable sum of £1,010. In the property deeds, it was described as "the house formerly known or called by the name of Carbery (sic) House and now divided into Two or more Houses or Tenements...". [lower-alpha 1] From the same deed it is also gleaned that the building was "formerly held" by people named Richard Malone, James Malone and James Crompton.
The London bookseller, John Dunton, held auctions in Dick's in 1698. Pue ran his printing workshop from the same premises, printing for a number of Dublin publishing houses. [4] Thomas Bacon held auctions in Dick's from the 1760s, and printed his paper the Dublin Gazette from there for a time. Land and property auctions were also held from Dick's from the 1720s. [lower-alpha 2] [7]
The customers of Dick's were described in 1740: "Ye citizens, gentlemen, lawyers and squires, Who summer and winter surround our great fires, Ye quidnuncs! who frequently come into Pue's, To live upon politicks, coffee, and news." [2] [8]
After Richard Pue's death in 1722, his wife Elizabeth ran the coffee house and printing business, which in turn their son Richard Pue (Junior) took over from her by 1731. The business then passed to Richard's nephew, James Pue and his wife Sarah. [9] The printer and bookseller, Sarah Cotter, operated from the coffee house from 1751 to 1774, taking over from her brother who worked from there from 1744 until his death in 1751. [10]
In a deed dating from August 1757, a Gentleman named Matthew Walker (who was previously employed as a goldsmith [lower-alpha 3] and possibly a son of the aforementioned Joseph Walker) 'released and confirmed' unto a woman named Martha Kane an area of ground south of Skinner Row (and adjacent to Souter's Lane) which had formerly been in the possession of Sarah Cotter, Robert Glanville and Richard Pue (Jnr), amongst others. The property was bounded on the north, partly by the back yard of Carberry House, and partly by an establishment named the 'Ram Ale House'. [lower-alpha 4] It is known that there was a lane named "Ram Alley" in the vicinity, and the name of the ale house may have derived from this. [11]
The coffee house closed around 1780 when Carberry House was demolished. [1]
A coffeehouse, coffee shop, or café, is an establishment that serves various types of coffee, espresso, latte, americano and cappuccino. Some coffeehouses may serve cold beverages, such as iced coffee and iced tea, as well as other non-caffeinated beverages. A coffeehouse may also serve food, such as light snacks, sandwiches, muffins, cakes, breads, donuts or pastries. In continental Europe, some cafés also serve alcoholic beverages. Coffeehouses range from owner-operated small businesses to large multinational corporations. Some coffeehouse chains operate on a franchise business model, with numerous branches across various countries around the world.
Charles Robert Maturin, also known as C. R. Maturin, was an Irish Protestant clergyman and a writer of Gothic plays and novels. His best known work is the novel Melmoth the Wanderer, published in 1820.
Palmerstown is a civil parish and suburb in western Dublin on the banks of the River Liffey. It forms part of the South Dublin local authority and the Dublin Mid-West parliamentary constituency. The area is bordered to the north by the River Liffey and the Strawberry Beds, to the west by Lucan, to the south-west by Clondalkin, to the south by Ballyfermot and to the east by the village of Chapelizod. Palmerstown village is situated near the Liffey Valley Shopping Centre. The area is situated near the major junction of the M50 motorway and the N4. It lies approximately 7 km west of O'Connell Street in Dublin city centre. The Old Lucan Road, once the main route from the city to the west, passes through the centre of Palmerstown village.
Ethna Carbery, born Anna Bella Johnston, was an Irish journalist, writer and poet. She is best known for the ballad Roddy McCorley and the Song of Ciabhán; the latter was set to music by Ivor Gurney. In Belfast in the late 1890s, with Alice Milligan she produced The Shan Van Vocht, a nationalist monthly of literature, history and comment that gained a wide circulation in Ireland and in the Irish diaspora. Her poetry was collected and published after her death under the pen name Ethna Carberry, adopted following her marriage to the poet Seumas MacManus in 1901.
Shelbourne Road is a road in Ballsbridge, in the southeast part of Dublin, Ireland.
Matthew Dubourg was an English violinist, conductor, and composer who spent most of his life in Ireland. Among other achievements, Dubourg led the orchestra at the premiere of Georg Friedrich Handel's great oratorio Messiah.
Richard Crosbie (1755–1824) was the first Irishman to make a manned flight. He flew in a hydrogen air balloon from Ranelagh, on Dublin's southside to Clontarf, on Dublin's northside on 19 January 1785 at the age of 30. His aerial achievement occurred just 14 months after the first-ever manned balloon flight by the Montgolfier Brothers in France and is commemorated by a memorial located at the site of this historic event & commissioned by Dublin City Council.
The Grecian Coffee House was a coffee house, first established in about 1665 at Wapping Old Stairs in London, United Kingdom, by a Greek former mariner called George Constantine.
George Faulkner was one of the most important Irish publishers and booksellers. He forged a publishing relationship with Jonathan Swift and parlayed that fame into an extensive trade. He was also deeply involved with the argument over copyright infringement and piracy, both creating and fighting "Irish editions".
Alexander Nimmo FRSE MRIA MICE HFGS was a Scottish civil engineer and geologist active in early 19th-century Ireland.
Sheriff of Dublin City was a judicial and administrative role in Ireland. Initially, the Sovereign's judicial representative in Dublin, the role was later held by two individuals and concerned with a mix of judicial, political and administrative functions. In origins, an office for a lifetime, assigned by the Sovereign, the Sheriff became an annual appointment following the Provisions of Oxford in 1258.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Dublin, Ireland.
Richard Pue was an Irish newspaper publisher, bookseller, and proprietor of Dick's Coffee House.
7 Eccles Street was a row house in Dublin, Ireland. It was the home of Leopold Bloom, protagonist of the novel Ulysses (1922) by James Joyce. The house was demolished in 1967, and the site is now occupied by the Mater Private Hospital.
Elizabeth Pue was an Irish newspaper publisher, bookseller, and proprietor of Dick's Coffee House.
Sarah Pue was an Irish printer, publisher, patent medicine seller, and proprietor of Dick's Coffee House.
Christchurch Place is a street in central Dublin, Ireland, formerly known as Skinners Row or Skinner's Row, it formed one of the main thoroughfares in medieval Dublin.
The Tholsel was an important building in Dublin, Ireland which combined the function of civic hall, guildhall, court, gaol and even for a period acted as parliament house from 1641-48.
Achmet Borumborad, Achmet Borumbadad, or sometimes simply Dr. Achmet or Mr. Achmet, was the assumed name of an eccentric medical con-artist, or quack, operating in late 18th-century Dublin, who succeeded in gathering financial support for the construction of a Turkish bath on the banks of the River Liffey. Purportedly a doctor, he 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 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."
James Carrique Ponsonby [also recorded as Carrigue, Carigue, Carique and Carrick] was an Irish member of parliament (MP) for two different constituencies, high sheriff, justice of the peace and grand juror of County Kerry and an important Irish landowner.
{{cite book}}
: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)