Iveagh Markets

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The '''Iveagh Markets''' {{IPAc-en|ˈ|ai|v|iː}} is a former indoor market built in the Victorian style on Francis Street and John Dillon Street in The Liberties neighbourhood of Dublin, Ireland, that was open from 1906 until the 1990s.

As of 2024, the site remains derelict despite attempts to restore the site to market use.

==History== Until the creation by The 1st Baron Iveagh, as he then was, of the park north of St. Patrick's Cathedral in 1901, hundreds of street traders had stalls in the neighbourhood. Lord Iveagh (who was later advanced in the peerage as The 1st Viscount Iveagh, in 1905, and as The 1st Earl of Iveagh, in 1919) obtained an Act of Parliament<ref>{{cite web |title=Irish Statute Book |url=https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/isbc/blp1901.html |website=www.irishstatutebook.ie |access-date=25 September 2023}}</ref> to build and gift the markets, subject to the condition that they be run by Dublin Corporation as public markets or the title would revert to his heirs.<ref>Dublin Corporation (Markets etc.) Act, 1901</ref> A site was chosen on the old Sweetman's brewery which had earlier been acquired by Lord Iveagh. The site was cleared by 1900, with the objective of the new indoor market offering local traders a dry place to sell vegetables, fish, and clothes. It was built by the Iveagh Trust, which was initially a component of the Guinness Trust, founded in 1890 by Lord Iveagh.<ref>F.H.A. Aalen, ''The Iveagh Trust: the first hundred years 1890-1990'', Iveagh Trust, 1990. {{ISBN|978-0-9515942-0-9}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/footage-shows-historic-iveagh-markets-21263564 |title=Footage shows historic Iveagh Markets in ruins after lying derelict for over 20 years |first=Aakanksha |last=Surve |work=DublinLive |date=9 August 2021 |accessdate=27 May 2022}}</ref>

The building was designed and built by Frederick G. Hicks. Construction started in 1902 and the market was opened in June 1906 by George William Addison as a representative of the then Viscount Iveagh.<ref name = "casey">{{cite book|last= Casey|first= Christine |year= 2005|title= Dublin: The City Within the Grand and Royal Canals and the Circular Road with the Phoenix Park|publisher= Yale University Press|location= Yale|isbn= 0-300-10923-7 |page= 655}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.excavations.ie/Pages/Details.php?Year=&County=Dublin&id=4536 |title=Excavation report of the site |access-date=24 April 2013 |archive-date=20 November 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071120174439/http://www.excavations.ie/Pages/Details.php?Year=&County=Dublin&id=4536 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Maintenance of the market was entrusted to Dublin Corporation (now Dublin City Council).<ref name="IrishTimes2015">{{cite news |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/consumer/work-to-begin-on-90m-redevelopment-of-iveagh-markets-1.2056798 |title=Work to begin on €90m redevelopment of Iveagh Markets |publisher=Irish Times |first=Olivia |last=Kelly |date=7 January 2015 |accessdate=27 May 2020}}</ref><ref name="IrishTimes2017">{{cite news |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/call-for-iveagh-markets-to-be-returned-to-dublin-city-council-1.3191009 |title=Call for Iveagh Markets to be returned to Dublin City Council |publisher=Irish Times |first=Olivia |last=Kelly |date=19 August 2017 |accessdate=27 May 2020}}</ref><ref name="RTE">{{cite news |url=https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2018/0112/932865-iveagh-market/ |publisher=Raidió Teilifís Éireann |title=Dublin City Council to take possession of Iveagh Market |date=12 January 2018 |accessdate=27 May 2020}}</ref> The market building was built in the Edwardian style.<ref name="IrishTimes2017"/><ref name="RTE"/><ref name="IrishTimes2019"/>

The market was split into a dry market facing Francis Street and a wet market in the rear facing John Dillon Street.<ref name="IrishTimes2015"/><ref name="IrishTimes2017"/> The dry market sold clothes while the wet market sold fish, fruit and vegetables.<ref name="IrishTimes2015"/><ref name="IrishTimes2017"/><ref name="RTE"/>

An adjoining building housed laundry, disinfecting and delousing facilities.<ref name="IrishTimes2015"/><ref name="IrishTimes2017"/> This was an innovation in the Dublin market world, and was influenced by Iveagh's sponsorship of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine in London a decade earlier.

The building was constructed in red brick mainly from the Portmarnock brickworks and granite from Newry. Many of the door and window frames and architraves are of imported Portland stone.

===Closure and restoration attempts=== By the 1980s, the market had become rundown.<ref name="IrishTimes2015"/><ref name="IrishTimes2017"/> In 1993, the council announced plans for a IR£1.25 million refurbishment.<ref name="IrishTimes2015"/><ref name="IrishTimes2017"/> Over the following years, the sum was determined to be inadequate and the council announced in 1996 that it was seeking a private developer to redevelop the market.<ref name="IrishTimes2015"/><ref name="IrishTimes2017"/><ref name="RTE"/> In 1997, hotelier Martin Keane secured a 500-year lease with a {{Euro|2 million}} tender.<ref name="IrishTimes2015"/><ref name="IrishTimes2017"/><ref name="RTE"/> In 2007, Keane was granted planning permission to develop the market and an adjacent site into a food market complex with restaurants, a 97-bed hotel, music venue and apartment hotel.<ref name="RTE"/> The planning permission was renewed in 2012, and a {{Euro|90 million}} redevelopment was expected to begin in spring 2015 and finish in 2017.<ref name="IrishTimes2015"/><ref name="IrishTimes2017"/><ref name="RTE"/>

In January 2018, the city council announced that it would repossess the market site and refund Keane's {{Euro|2 million}} tender due to his failure to redevelop the site.<ref name="RTE"/> In September 2019, an architectural condition report commissioned by the city council found that the market was "unsafe" and in an "advanced state of dereliction".<ref name="IrishTimes2019">{{cite news |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/iveagh-markets-unsafe-and-in-advanced-state-of-dereliction-1.4006796 |title=Iveagh Markets ‘unsafe’ and in ‘advanced state of dereliction’ |publisher=Irish Times |first=Olivia |last=Kelly |date=4 September 2019 |accessdate=27 May 2020}}</ref> The report estimated that essential repairs would cost approximately {{Euro|13 million}}, which the city council's head of planning said cannot be covered by the city council's budget.<ref name="IrishTimes2019"/>

On 8 December 2020, it was revealed that the 4th Earl of Iveagh had commissioned a security team to gain occupancy and forcibly repossess the site in the early hours of that morning, citing the provisions in the 1901 Act that ownership would revert to the Guinness family if the site was not actively developed as a market. Lord Iveagh and the Iveagh Trustees Ltd. reported through a spokesman that they intended that the site would be developed "in a manner conforming with the wishes of the 1st Earl".<ref>{{cite news|title=Repossession a new twist in Iveagh Market planning row|url=https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2020/1208/1183071-iveagh-market/|publisher=RTÉ News|first=John|last=Kilraine|date=8 December 2020|accessdate=8 December 2020}}</ref>

In September 2023, it was announced that the government would provide {{Euro|9 million}} in funding for conservation works to the market. <ref>https://www.thejournal.ie/iveagh-markets-funding-conservation-6174746-Sep2023/</ref>

In October 2023, Dublin City Council, Keane and Lord Iveagh all appeared before the High Court claiming ownership of the property.<ref>{{cite news |last= |first= |date=11 October 2023 |title=An Irishman, a Lord or the city council? Court to decide who owns Iveagh Markets |url=https://www.breakingnews.ie/business/an-irishman-a-lord-or-the-city-council-court-to-decide-who-owns-iveagh-markets-1538231.html |work= |location= |access-date=12 October 2023}}</ref>

In December 2024, it was reported that the directors of the company that controlled the site expressed confidence in retaining control of the site for the Keane-controlled company, with redevelopment to proceed once title questions have been resolved.<ref>https://www.irishexaminer.com/business/companies/arid-41545576.html</ref>

==Gallery== <gallery class="center" widths="215" heights="200"> File:DUBLINBIKES DOCKING STATION NUMBER 73 (FRANCIS STREET)-136270.jpg|A Dublinbikes docking station in front of the Iveagh Markets building on Francis Street in 2018 File:The derelict Iveagh Market - geograph.org.uk - 3150302.jpg|Lamb Alley entrance File:Iveagh Market in Lamb Alley - geograph.org.uk - 3150273.jpg|Lamb Alley entrance </gallery>

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== {{Commons category}} *[https://wideandconvenientstreets.wordpress.com/tag/colonel-george-w-addison-r-e/ Iveagh Market Buildings on "Wide and Convenient Streets" website] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20150209181624/http://www.hjlyons.com/Conservation/HJL_Project_Conservation_Iveagh_Pg4.html Archived restoration project] *[https://www.rte.ie/archives/2017/0316/860259-dublin-city-iveagh-market/ RTE video on the possible closure of the market (1962)] *[https://www.rte.ie/archives/2014/0402/605983-iveagh-market-trader-1986/ RTE video of the market (1986)]

Category:Market halls Category:Markets in Dublin (city)