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Marino Crescent () is a Georgian crescent of 26 houses at the junction of Marino, Fairview and Clontarf in Dublin 3, Ireland. It is the only Georgian crescent in Dublin.
The originally private ''Marino Crescent Park'' garden square in front of the crescent is now a public park having been acquired by Dublin corporation in the 1980s. It was officially renamed ''Bram Stoker Park'' by Dublin City Council in the 2010s but retains its private feel due to a wall and trees surrounding most of the park with the original Georgian fencing surrounding the remainder facing the houses.
Closing times range from an earliest of 16.30 in December and January to a latest of 21.30 in June and July.
Marino Crescent () is a Georgian crescent of 26 houses at the junction of Marino, Fairview and Clontarf in Dublin 3, Ireland. It is the only Georgian crescent in Dublin.
History
The crescent was built by Charles Ffolliott in 1792 as aspite wall
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to block the view of Dublin Bay from the now demolished Marino House and its better known folly, the Casino at Marino, which was much coveted by its owner, James Caulfeild, 1st Earl of Charlemont . The terrace was built with red brick front finishes in a similar method to Mountjoy Square and Merrion Square however, owing to the fashion of the time the fronts were plastered over during the Regency period and all of the facades remain in the same state as of 2020.
All of the houses are three-storey over basement properties and all are two bay with the exception of the two largest central houses, numbers 13 and 14, which are three bay.
Number 26 was demolished in the 1980s to make way for a faux Georgian block of apartments known as ''Crescent House''. The remaining 25 houses on the terrace are listed on the Record of Protected Structures.
Notable residents
*Florence Balcombe
Florence Balcombe (17 July 1858 – 25 May 1937) was the wife and literary executor of Bram Stoker. She is remembered for her legal dispute with the makers of ''Nosferatu'', an unauthorized film based on her husband's novel ''Dracula''.
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, Bram Stoker's future wife, lived at number 1.
*Harry Boland
Harry Boland (27 April 1887 – 1 August 1922) was an Irish republican politician who served as President of the Irish Republican Brotherhood from 1919 to 1920. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1918 to 1922.
He was elected at the 1918 ...
lived at 5 Marino Crescent and for a short time at number 15. While living there he used the chimney to store a small portion of the Russian Crown Jewels. The jewels were given as security for a loan of $20,000 given by an Irish government delegation (part of the first Dáil Éireann
Dáil Éireann ( , ; ) is the lower house, and principal chamber, of the Oireachtas (Irish legislature), which also includes the President of Ireland and Seanad Éireann (the upper house).Article 15.1.2º of the Constitution of Ireland reads: ...
) to Ludwig Martens
Ludwig Christian Alexander Karl Martens (or Ludwig Karlovich Martens; russian: Людвиг Карлович Мартенс; – 19 October 1948) was a Russian Marxist revolutionary, Soviet diplomat and engineer.
Biography Early years
Ludwig Mar ...
, the new Soviet government representative in New York. Number 15 was also used to store guns as part of the Howth gun-running
The Howth gun-running ( ) involved the delivery of 1,500 Mauser rifles to the Irish Volunteers at Howth harbour in Ireland on 26 July 1914. The unloading of guns from a private yacht during daylight hours attracted a crowd, and the authorities or ...
.
* William Carleton, the Poor Scholar, lived at number 3.
*Charles Ffolliott lived at number 10.
* Martin Haverty, historian, lived at number 21.
*Bram Stoker
Abraham Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish author who is celebrated for his 1897 Gothic horror novel ''Dracula''. During his lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistant of actor Sir Henry Irving and busines ...
lived at number 15 for a period during his childhood, as did his brother, Thornley Stoker
Sir William Thornley Stoker, 1st Baronet (6 March 1845 – July 1912), was an Irish medical writer, anatomist and surgeon. He served as chair of anatomy and president of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, president of the Royal Academ ...
.
Bram Stoker Park
The originally private ''Marino Crescent Park'' garden square in front of the crescent is now a public park having been acquired by Dublin corporation in the 1980s. It was officially renamed ''Bram Stoker Park'' by Dublin City Council in the 2010s but retains its private feel due to a wall and trees surrounding most of the park with the original Georgian fencing surrounding the remainder facing the houses.
Closing times range from an earliest of 16.30 in December and January to a latest of 21.30 in June and July.
See also
*Royal Crescent
The Royal Crescent is a row of 30 terraced houses laid out in a sweeping crescent in the city of Bath, England. Designed by the architect John Wood, the Younger and built between 1767 and 1774, it is among the greatest examples of Georgian ...
, Bath, England
*The Crescent, Limerick
The Crescent ( ga, An Corrán) is a street in Limerick, Ireland and is one of the highlights of Georgian Limerick.
The area takes its name from the shape of the terraced buildings on both sides. The two sides combined give the street a distin ...
References
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