| Collection Description | In the early morning hours of Saturday, 27 August 1892, a fire broke out in the South City
Markets, off South Great George’s Street, Dublin. The Markets occupied a neo-Gothic building
constructed ten years previously with frontage to George’s Street east and Fade Street on the
South. A covered Market Arcade bisected the building and ran from George’s Street to Drury
Street. The building was rented to shopkeepers, many of whom lived over their shops; and
space was rented to stallholders who transacted business in the Market Arcade.
The fire was described at the time on the words of Lord Mayor Joseph M. Meade as “… the
most disastrous … that had ever taken place in the city”. In fact, although there was extensive
loss of goods and possessions, there was no loss of life and the building itself, though severely
damaged, was salvaged and restored. The original façade is that which we see today. [DCLA] |
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