April 24, 2025

For nearly a century, an elegant hotel built in 1883 on the eastern edge ofDublin by the London and North Western Railway Company served travelers arriving at and departing from its grand terminus at the city’s North Wall Quay. But in the mid-20th century, the fortunes of the station—and the hotel—waned as private automobiles and air travel supplanted passenger rail. And by the late 1970s, this stretch of Ireland’s capital became dangerously rough; the once-majestic hotel left to pigeons and squatters.

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