05 March 2021
Remembering Thomas Bryan
14 Henrietta Street is delighted to welcome historian Donal Fallon to write a series of blog posts about the building and its rich and varie...
08 February 2021
Teatime Talk: ‘From Mud Huts to Garden Suburbs: Workers’ Housing in the Docklands’
This talk will examine how workers housing in the Dublin docklands evolved
27 January 2021
Our playground was the street
A topic that often comes up when we speak to people is the memory of football as an important, often joyful part of life in tenement times.
14 January 2021
Join us for our February Teatime Talk: The makings of the people's game - Football in Dublin
For our February Teatime Talk, we’re delighted to invite Gerard Farrell of the Bohemian Foundation to give an online talk about the history ...
28 October 2020
Kevin Barry and Henrietta Street
14 Henrietta Street is delighted to welcome historian Donal Fallon to write a series of blog posts about the building and its rich and varie...
14 September 2020
The memory of Alderman Joseph Meade
The decline of Henrietta Street - and Dublin more broadly - was a more gradual event in the aftermath of the Act of Union than often present...
16 June 2020
Moving to the suburbs
It must have felt like a million miles away when people headed to their new homes in the suburbs of Dublin - the country as some would call ...
09 June 2020
5 Henrietta Street and Uinseann MacEoin
Opposite 14 Henrietta Street is James Bryson House, the name bestowed upon 5 Henrietta Street by Uinseann MacEoin, who together with his wif...
04 June 2020
Henrietta House and Herbert Simms
14 Henrietta Street is delighted to welcome historian Donal Fallon to write a series of blog posts about the building and it’s rich and vari...
22 May 2020
Working life in the tenements
You might look at the people of tenement Dublin and think they were poor and you might even feel sorry for them but in most cases you would...
11 May 2020
The Games We Played
Street games and children playing together was an important, fun, part of tenement life in Dublin and it’s something that former residents o...
19 February 2020
Lily Butterworth (née Dowling)
There is a room in 14 Henrietta Street called Mrs. Dowling’s room.
It’s the last room on the tour and it’s not uncommon to hear in the cha...