Shelbourne Hotel
The Shelbourne Hotel is a well-known hotel in a historic building on the north side of St. Stephen's Green in Dublin , the capital of the Republic of Ireland . It is operated by the American hotel group Marriott International and has a total of 265 rooms. After an eighteen month renovation, it reopened in March 2007.
John McCurdy designed the hotel and MM Barbezet's studio in Paris designed the four external statues, two Nubian princesses and their slaves.
history
The hotel was founded in 1824 by Martin Burke , born in Tipperary , after buying three adjoining townhouses overlooking Dublin's St. Stephen's Green. Burke named his new hotel The Shelbourne, after William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne . William Makepeace Thackeray was an early guest at the hotel in 1842. He paid tribute to the hotel in his Irish Sketch Book (1843).
In the early 1900s, Alois Hitler Jr. , Adolf Hitler's older half-brother , worked at the hotel during his stay in Dublin.
During the Easter Rising in 1916, the hotel was occupied by 40 members of the British troops under Captain Andrews. Their goal was to repel the Irish Citizen Army and volunteer forces under Michael Mallin.
In 1922 the Irish constitution was drafted in room 112. In November and December 2018, UEFA selected the hotel as the venue to match clubs and national teams in several tournaments.
Art reference
The hotel has been the subject of two novels; the first by Elizabeth Bowen (1951) and the second by Michael O'Sullivan's The Shelbourne and Its People (with Bernadine O'Neill).
The novel Ulysses by James Joyce also contains a reference to the hotel (U 15.2994).
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- ^ Hans Christian Oeser: Dublin a travel companion. Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 84.
- ↑ paddy-bridget-and-uncle-adolf-meet-the-irish-hitlers-. www. paddy-bridget-and-uncle-adolf-meet-the-irish-hitlers-, accessed September 19, 2019 .