Mecklenburgh Street to Railway Street – evil reputations and new names
Listening recently to a episode from the Napoleonic Wars Podcast about Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz prompted me to write up the entry for Railway Street, Mecklenburgh Street being one of its previous names.
It turned out to be more complicated than I expected, but the history of the name of the street is the history of tenement Dublin, and in particular the Monto area, in miniature.
The impetus for people to change the name of the street may sometimes seem frivolous, but there were/are real-life consequences for people if the area they live in gains an ‘evil reputation’.