The building was huge, built c. 1900 according to the DIA. You can see the dome on the right in this Eason photo in the nli archive. Another angle:

A wonderful array of hats on show, from toppers to policeman's helmets!

almost no landmarks to go by, but is this the corner goo.gl/maps/hhmvf

The fortified tower of the Dublin Bread Company — a tearoom, cafe and meeting place popular with chess players — was used by rebels to return fire to snipers on the roof of Trinity. It was but a shell by Friday of the Rebellion, and was never reconstructed. A bank was built in its place.

Bang went the sticky buns! =(

Archiseek - have a good picture here

@mogey That's it - just near the corner of O'Connell Street and Abbey Street...

@79549245@N06 It's an interesting discussion on that archiseek page, including the fact that the Dublin Bread Compnay [sic] building was built in 1901, which might help with dating other O'Connell Street photos.

Here is a Photo of a Post Card from "Old Pictures of Dublin" "Photo Shopped" to look like it was taked as the buildings burned. @53851230@N02/4982512070/

@beachcomberaustralia Good Point

Dont Froget this one from @nlireland @w77t/4714418056/in/faves-nlireland/ The piece by @75671375@N05 from James Stephens' An Insurrection in Dublin is worth a read.

What I'd like to know is how long the building stood after shelling on Friday 28 April before demolition...

The DIA says the Grand Central Cinema was on the site, and suffered a fire in December 1933, was altered in 1946 and converted to the Hibernian Bank in 1951. But it doesn't say which year the cinema was built...

"We call it the DBC because they make Damned Bad Cakes" Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's "Ulysses"

The Grand Central Bar is still there!

@56225952@N06 Will add "Damned Bad Cakes" as a tag!

@nlireland The DBC Ruin has been rebuilt (as is today) in this NLI Photo dated August 1922 (upper left Big Arch Window / Entrance) @nlireland/6088554764/

Here's a view from before the Bread Company building was built - you can recognise some of the adjacent buildings in the Archiseek photo linked above @nlireland/7919928868/

@nlireland The American Chambers building on the corner of Abbey Street, also destroyed in 1916, was rebuilt in 1918 www.dia.ie/works/view/37370/building/CO.+DUBLIN,+DUBLIN,+...

It looks like there was a proposal to rebuild it in 1917 which never came to fruition www.dia.ie/works/view/37347/CO.+DUBLIN%2C+DUBLIN%2C+O%27C...

TAKE NOTICE It looks like the earlier versions of our Carol were well aquainted with the DBC @nlireland "Dublin Bakery Company's tearoom. Thoms 1904 directory lists this as the Dublin Bread Company Ltd. with restaurants at 3-4 St. Stephen's Green North, 6-7 Sackville St Lower, 33 Dame St. and the National Library, Kildare St. It is not clear which of these Bloom associates with "gas about our lovely land" though it is at the one in Dame St. that Mulligan and Haines see Parnell's brother, John Howard Parnell, and thus the tearoom near Dublin Castle may be the one Bloom has in mind, or perhaps it is the one near the National Library, because it was frequented by students."

The Grand Central Cinema was built in 1921. Sculptural work by Charles Harrison and Sons, who worked on the Kildare Street Club and are thus responsible for our billiard playing monkeys!. P.J. Munden was the architect. (Great, though long article here about Sackville Street/O'Connell Street from the Irish Arts Review.)

@79549245@N06 That's mad, Ted! Had never realised we had a tea room back then. Wondering where it was exactly?

From Seá¡n McLoughlin - the boy commandant of 1916 During the night, McLoughlin clambered onto the roof of the building and was awestruck at the spectacle that met his eyes. The whole Sackville Street area, it seemed, was a raging inferno. The Dublin Bread Company building, Reis stores, Hoyte’s oil works, Clery’s, the Imperial Hotel and many other buildings were being swallowed whole by the blaze. McLoughlin feared that Republican hopes of victory were being similarly consumed

Another angle on the same scene... Photo probably taken by my great-grandfather.

@nlireland Mrs Carol: You'll have some tea (in our DBC Tea Rooms)... are you sure you don't want any? Aw go on, you'll have some. Go on go on go on go on go on go on go on go on GO ON!

@79549245@N06 I've emailed a long-standing (and -sitting) member of staff who knows more about the library's history than anyone ever had hot dinners at DBC to ask about the restaurant/tea rooms...

@nlireland I propose that from now on all Virtual Sticky Buns issued by you should be manufactured by the DBC (virtually) at their Kildare Street Branch.

farm9.staticflickr.com/8234/8492213340_d8fc331669_b.jpg A Then and Now Pic

I want one or two Tomorrow @nlireland National Sticky Bun Day is celebrated on February 21 in the United States. It marks the celebration of sticky buns, a breakfast sweet bread PS - This is actually True!!!!

Demolition? Croke Park Perhaps? The GAA’s first effort at modernisation was the construction of a terrace area at the northern end of the ground, in what is now Dineen-Hill 16. This was created in 1917 using the rubble from O’Connell Street in Dublin, which had been destroyed in the 1916 Rising.

Brilliant Carol, great shot!

Some movie footage of the destruction and demolition, www.britishpathe.com/video/war-in-ireland-easter-rebellio...

O Buachalla Domhnall. Joined the Mynooth Company of the Irish Volunteers, the Company number about 40 to 50 in number, at the Split all but 14 went with the Redmond National Volunteers, the instructor was an ex-British Army man named O’Toole. 14men of the Maynooth mobilised and proceeded to Dublin to join the Rising. He fought at the Exchange Hotel in Parliament Street, sniped from the glass turret/dome of Arnott’s on Henry Street, sniped on Trinity Collage from the Dublin Bread Company and was involved in the retreat from the G.P.O. He did not go to Moore Street with the rest of the Volunteers and after wandering around Dublin for some time he was arrested at Broadstone Station on the Saturday morning. He was taken to Richmond Barracks on the Sunday morning before being transferred to Richmond Barracks and then to Knutsford Jail in England. He was transferred to Frongoch where he was held until a few days before Christmas 1916. He served as the last Governor General of Ireland. Interesting read on O'Buachalla from Wikipedia - and his relationship with De Valera

O’Kelly Fergus F. 2nd Battalion Dublin Brigade Irish Volunteers. Joined the Irish Volunteers at the Rotunda Meeting. Lived in Howth at the time and was posted to the 2nd Battalion headquarters at Fairview (Croydon Park) and attached to the Signalling Company and received instruction in Morse code and semaphore. A receiving radio was constructed in order to receive a signal from the Aud or the submarine in which Casement was travelling in. His main activity during Easter Week was to get the transmitting and receiving radio in the Wireless School working, the radio apparatus at the School had been disconnected at the outbreak of WW1. Along with six other Volunteers which included Sean O’Connor who was an electrician, Arthur Shields the well know Abbey actor and David Burk who was to be radio operator the Wireless School was occupied along with Reid’s Shop. The roof of the Wireless School was dominated by the tower of the D.B.C. (Dublin Bread Company) Luncheon Rooms restaurant, at 6-7 Lower Sackville Street (now Lower O'Connell Street). O’Kelly sent word to the G.P.O. that the D.B.C. would have to be occupied in order to ensure safe operation of the radio, a company of Volunteers was dispatched under the command of Captain Weafer, Weafer was Killed in Action while taking these buildings. It was not possible to set up a receiving radio but a transmitting radio was successfully put into operation, although it was not possible to communicate directly with anyone it was possible to broadcast messages on the airways. Fergus O’Kelly stated that as far as he could remember the first message broadcast was to announce the Proclamation of the Irish Republic and the taking over of Dublin by the Republican Army. The radio was kept in operation until the Wednesday afternoon when shell-fire from the Helga became so intense the position of the Radio was no longer viable. Attempts were made to bring the Radio apparatus to the G.P.O. but owing to the weight of some of the equipment this proved impossible.

Dublin 1916: The Siege of the GPO By Clair Wills There is a transcript of an order from James Connolly to the Officer in Charge of Reis's and the DBC in the above book. The main purpose of your post is to protect our wireless station. Its secondary purpose is to observe Lower Abbey Street and Lower O'Connell Street. Commandeer in the D.B.C. (restaurant) whatever food and utensils you require. Make sure of a plentiful supply of water wherever your men are. Break all glass in the windows of the rooms occupied by you for righting purposes. Establish a connection between your forces in the D.B.C. and in Reis's building. Be sure that the stairways lead- ing immediately to your rooms are well barricaded. We have a post in the house at the corner of Bachelor's Walk, in the Hotel Metropole, in the Imperial Hotel, and in the Post Office. The directions from which you are likely to be attacked are from the Custom House and from the far side of the river, D J Olier Street, or Westmoreland Street. We believe there is a sniper in McBirney's on the far side of the river. JAMES CONNOLLY, Commander General.

And here's how the reality of this photo is transcribed in the 1918 Thom's Dublin Directory...

@79549245@N06/ I still quietly commemorate my late grandmother's birthday on this day, though she's now seven years gone. Henceforth I'll do it with sticky buns!

what an incredibly resource this is. amazing work you guys.

The standing building with the double arched window - I'm pretty sure that's a Burger King now, windows are still a feature.

@concorps I see where you a comming from, but the BK is on the other side of O'Connell St.

Plaque - Still there today - Re Captain Weafer as mentioned above. "that the D.B.C. would have to be occupied in order to ensure safe operation of the radio, a company of Volunteers was dispatched under the command of Captain Weafer, Weafer was Killed in Action while taking these buildings". @echidna/4025967985/ by @81853222@N00 The following from www.comeheretome.com Captain Thomas Weafer ( The plaque reads Wafer, however as you will see below Weafer is more commonly found when discussing him) was shot and killed on Wednesday April 26 1916 while occupying the Hibernian Bank on the corner of Lower Abbey Street and Sackville Street. The strategic importance of the building is clear. It allowed Weafer and his men to control access to the street from Amiens Street Station for example, and members of the the GPO Garrison were occupying a number of buildings on each side of Sackville Street.

I have just added this photo to our 50,000+ Views Album. [https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/sets/72157651136879037]

DBC received £18500 in compensation from Property Losses Committee centenaries.nationalarchives.ie/centenaries/plic/results....

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/91549360@N03] I expect they kneeded the dough.

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/91549360@N03] That's over €1.25M inflation adjusted. [https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia] That's very funny.

Crumbs! The buns were glazing whilst the guns were blazing. [Risking a lifetime sentence to The Pun Bin]