Shelbourne Hotel
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Ireland
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. Currently operated by Marriott International
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, the hotel has 265 rooms in total and reopened in March 2006 after undergoing an eighteen-month refurbishment.
John McCurdy designed the hotel and the studio of M. M. Barbezet of Paris cast the four external statues, two Nubian Princesses and their shackled slave girls.
History
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne
William Petty-FitzMaurice, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, KG, PC , known as The Earl of Shelburne between 1761 and 1784, by which title he is generally known to history, was an Irish-born British Whig statesman who was the first Home Secretary in 1782 and then Prime Minister 1782–1783 during the final...
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In the early 1900s, Alois Hitler, Jr, the half brother of Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler
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, worked in the hotel while in Dublin.
In 1922, the hotel played a very important part in the founding of the Irish nation when the Irish Constitution was drafted in room 112, now known as The Constitution Room.
See also
- St. Stephen's GreenSt. Stephen's GreenSt Stephen's Green is a city centre public park in Dublin, Ireland. The park is adjacent to one of Dublin's main shopping streets, Grafton Street, and to a shopping centre named for it, while on its surrounding streets are the offices of a number of public bodies and the city terminus of one of...
The hotel has been the subject of two histories, the first by Elizabeth Bowen and the second 'The Shelbourne and Its People'by Michael O'Sullivan (with Bernardine O'Neill) Blackwater Press Dublin 1999.