M.J.O'Neill's

[1] It occupies 2 Suffolk Street and adjacent buildings, continuing round the corner into Church Lane.

The part in Church Lane was the site of a printing house, where William Butler published The Volunteers Journal and Irish Herald in 1783, and in 1789 Arthur O’Connor published The Press, supporting Wolfe Tone’s republican views.

The corner structure is a four-storey, vaguely of the Arts and Crafts Movement, red-brick and early twentieth century, with Tudor-style projecting bay windows.

The next-door premises in Church Lane have been added, as a carvery, and the interior has been opened up.

A small snug, immediately inside the Church Lane entrance, was a venue for the “Fabians” of the early 1960s and for later left-wing students from Trinity College, Dublin.