History Behind 19 South Anne Street

19 SOUTH ANNE STREET, DUBLIN 2 IS NOW HOME TO DEIRDRE O’DONNELL CONTEMPORARY JEWELLERY BUT THE BUILDING ITSELF IS STEEPED IN HISTORY DATING BACK TO 1845 AND EVEN GETTING A MENTION IN JAMES JOYCE ULYSSES

South Anne Street in the 1960s

History timeline of 19 South Anne St occupants: 

1845                                       John Lund, Vintner

1855                                       Michael Redmond, Vintner

1860-1877                            York Hotel

1878                                       John Rogers, Vintner

1879-1880                            Vacant

1881                                       Edward Neary, Merchant Tailor/Michael Cullinan, Bootmaker

1884                                       Edward Neary, Merchant Tailor/John Murray, Bootmaker

1885                                       Edward Neary, Merchant Tailor/ * Charles Moulang, Jeweller

1886                                     Edward Neary, Merchant Tailor/ * Charles Moulang, Jeweller/  M.E. Moulang, Dressmaker

1888-1889                           Charles Moulang, Jeweller

Today, the ‘Irish Moulang’ Family, who lived in Dublin, no longer exist, originally named MOULIN. By 1765 members of the Irish Moulin family were known as ‘MOULANG’. From the start of the 19th century the silversmith craft of ‘watchcase makers’ (Goldsmith Company, Dublin Ire.) was passed from generation to generation in the MOULANG Family. From the small beginnings in 1710 the ‘Irish Moulangs’ thrive in Dublin for the next 200 or so years, living and working in the old city centre – mostly in the streets adjoining the banks of the river Liffey and later in the Temple Bar precinct, Dublin. We also know, thanks to James Joyce’s epic ‘Ulysses’, that by 1904 the family business has a more ‘retail’ focus run by Daniel Moulang (Jeweller and pipe importer); Joyce’s character Bloom is walking along Wellington Quay (south bank of the River Liffey) and he notes ‘Moulangs Pipes’.

1890                                       Vacant

1891                                       Robert Morrison, Bootmaker

1892-1922                            Nicholas Mulvey, Bootmaker

1923                                       Ellen Kelly, Newsagent

1929                                       M. Deegan, Newsagent

2017                                       Deirdre O’Donnell Contemporary Jewellery

It is a fitting location for a creative jewellery studio to set up shop where the former Moulang family of jewellers once operated from from 1885 to 1888. The integrity of the building is fully maintained and the Deegan family even lived above the newsagent shop from 1929.

There is a full team of Irish goldsmiths behind the facade of Deirdre O’Donnell‘s studio. Deirdre herself has been a member of the Irish Design Council for 35 years. They ship all items to America and will hand make any piece of bespoke jewellery at your request. The level of quality is superior and in many pieces you even find a rare transparent enamel. All the enamel is made in house by the team in a kiln.

If you have any metals you would like remodeled into a new piece of jewellery, Deirdre and her team will help you with the design process all the way, turning something old into something new.