One of several former names for Railway Street. In 1761/2 the street was named ‘Mecklenburgh Street’, in honour, as M’Cready says, of Princess Sophia Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz,2 who in 1761 married King George III. She went on to become the United Kingdom’s longest serving Queen Consort, and to be played by Helen Mirren. (The gone-but-not-forgotten Charlotte…
On the North Strand, North Clarence Street is dated by M’Cready to 1796, although the IHTA’s earliest entry is from 1824. M’Cready’s explanation of the name is that it’s for William IV, who was Duke of Clarence from 1789, until he ascended the throne in 1830. That seems likely. See also the nearby North William…
For a small, residential street in Dublin 1, Railway Street has had more names than most streets in the city. Mecklenburgh Street Originally know as Martin’s Lane or Great Martin’s Lane,1 the street originally consisted of two stretches, the ‘upper’ part from Marlborough Street to Gardiner Street, and the ‘lower’ part from from there to…
