[3] In June 1969, one of the earliest battles to preserve Georgian Dublin took place at the corner of the street and St Stephen's Green.

The Minister for Local Government, Kevin Boland, had overridden the decision of Dublin Corporation, and given permission for the demolition.

However, a crew of demolition men entered the buildings during the night and destroyed the roofs and interiors.

[4][5][6] In the 1950s an apartment in the street served as the workplace of backstreet abortionist Mamie Cadden.

Five years later one of her patients, Helen O'Reilly, died of an air embolism during a procedure to abort a fetus in the fifth month.