Lost Dublin: Glamourous Club On O'Connell Street Featured Tearooms & Smoking Parlour

'The Dublin Bread Company' was the place to be in Dublin at the turn of the century.

The decadent three story restaurant featured tea rooms and a smoking parlour.

The 1916 Rising saw the club destroyed.

Unfortunately it has become one of many iconic buildings in the city that has been, 'lost'.

A new book has captured many lost buildings around the country.

 

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'Lost Ireland' by Orla Fitzpatrick is out now.

Orla spoke to Rachael on The Saturday Social.

She revealed other iconic Dublin buildings which have disappeared:

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