[1][2][3] Dick's was one of Dublin's most famous and long-lasting coffeehouses, established by Richard Pue in the late 17th century,[4] at some point before July 1698.
[1] In February 1708, Joseph Walker, a Dublin goldsmith, bought the site for the considerable sum of £1,010.
[4] Thomas Bacon held auctions in Dick's from the 1760s, and printed his paper the Dublin Gazette from there for a time.
[9] The printer and bookseller, Sarah Cotter, operated from the coffee house from 1751 to 1774, taking over from her brother who worked from there from 1744 until his death in 1751.
[10] In a deed dating from August 1757, a Gentleman named Matthew Walker (who was previously employed as a goldsmith[c] and possibly a son of the aforementioned Joseph Walker) 'released and confirmed' unto a woman named Martha Kane an area of ground south of Skinner Row (and adjacent to Souter's Lane) which had formerly been in the possession of Sarah Cotter, Robert Glanville and Richard Pue (Jnr), amongst others.