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Bram Stoker’s Dublin
Page updated 30 October 2012
The ornate facade, second from the left above, and the pink building to the right,
7, St.Stephen’s Green - house a Topshop today. In 1877, Bram Stoker lived above the ground floor grocery and wine shop located in 7, St. Stephen’s Green.
The Shelbourne Hotel, St. Stephen’s Green, elegant today, elegant yesterday....
where in 1876 Bram Stoker and Henry Irving began a lifelong friendship.
Sackville Street
Pictured in 1878, the year Bram Stoker married Florence Balcombe, and moved to London.
Horse-drawn bathing box, of the type which was common on the beach at Clontarf. This photo was taken in the late 1800’s.
Sackville Street and O’Connell Bridge
College Green, 1890’s
The Ireland of Bram's youth was a place of leprechauns, selkies, faeries, banshees, and ....bloodsuckers.
Considering his family’s Sligo heritage, it is easy to imagine that Bram Stoker was familiar with this Abbey of Sligo. Although it certainly looks the part, we have seen nothing to definitively link this Sligo landmark to Dracula.
Photo from The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland ca. 1841
Bram’s Dublin Tour Bram's Birthplace Bram’s Family Bram’s Dublin Journal
Bram’s Bookshelf Bram Stoker Obituary Bram Stoker Centenary 2012 Dracula Serial Reviews of Dracula
Dracula, Ballets, Musicals, Stageplays Project Dracula Dacre Stoker
© 2011-2012 Bram Stoker LLC for Bram Stoker Estate
BRAM'S BROTHERS, RICHARD AND GEORGE STOKER BOTH GRADUATED FROM
KING AND QUEEN'S COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS IN IRELAND, 6 KILDARE STREET,
KNOWN AFTER 1890 AS ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF IRELAND
The Four Courts of Dublin on the River Liffey, 1846 engraving
courtesy of Albion Prints www.albion-prints.com
Artane Lodge
Bram's family moved to Killester and Artane Lodge,
after leaving the Clontarf house when Bram was two years old.
St. Stephen's Green, ca 1890
Grafton Street
National Library Ireland Collection
Image (c) Marsh's Library
Gate to Archbishop Marsh's Library, Ireland's first public library (1701), and the record of books checked out by
Bram Stoker on Friday the 13th of July, 1866.
