Wynn's Hotel, Dublin
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The entrance of the hotel on Abbey Street
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| General information | |
| Type | Mass concrete |
| Classification |  |
| Location | Dublin, Ireland |
| Address | 36-38 Abbey Street Lower Dublin 1 D01 C9F8 |
| Coordinates | 53°20′54.031″N 6°15′31.277″W / 53.34834194°N 6.25868806°WCoordinates: 53°20′54.031″N 6°15′31.277″W / 53.34834194°N 6.25868806°W |
| Elevation | 4 metres (13 ft) |
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| Destroyed | April 27, 1916 |
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| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 6 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Peter Russell |
| Main contractor | G & T Crampton Ltd. |
| Other information | |
| Parking | Street |
| Website | |
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Wynn's Hotel is a hotel located in Dublin, Ireland which opened in 1845, and played a vital role leading up to the 1916 Easter Rising and other historic events. The three star hotel is a tourist attraction in Dublin city.
The hotel opened in 1845 as a boarding house by Phoebe Wynn. Wynn was well connected with the Church of Ireland, and the establishment was popular with Church of Ireland clergy staying in Dublin. Wynn owned the hotel for only seven years, but the owners after her kept the name. The change of ownership meant, however, that it now became the favoured city haunt of the Catholic clergy. After her subsequent ownership, the boarding house was registered as a hotel on July 10, 1897 and has operated ever since. In early 1897, the hotel's name changed to Telford's but the name changed back to Wynn's when it was acquired by the Clarence Hotel Company in 1898. Wynn's hotel was the venue for a meeting of Irish nationalists, held on November 11, 1913, with a view to forming an armed body. The meeting was arranged by Bulmer Hobson and The O'Rahilly, and chaired by Eoin MacNeill which resulted in the creation of the Irish Volunteers. Within hours of the meeting, the hotel was visited by two detectives who advised the manager not to hold such meetings in future; nonetheless, subsequent meetings of the committee were held at the hotel. A plaque in the hotel bar commemorates the first meeting. On April 2, 1914, Cumann na mBan, a women's auxiliary of the Volunteers, was formed at a meeting of nationalist women in Wynn's, chaired by Agnes O'Farrelly. During the Easter Rising of 1916, Wynn's was burned to the ground. It was set on fire by incendiary bullets hitting a street barricade which was erected outside. Owing to the fighting, firefighters were unable to save the hotel. Guests and staff were accommodated in the Clarence Hotel located on the opposite side of the River Liffey on Wellington Quay. Following the Rising, there was nothing left of the hotel. In 1921, the hotel began being rebuilt using mass concrete, the first building to do so in Dublin at the time. It was re-opened in 1926, ten years after its destruction.
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