| Name
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Address
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Founded
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Ended
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Notes
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| Daly's
|
3 College Green (from 1790); previously 1-3 Dame Street
|
c.1750
|
1820s
|
Founded as a coffeehouse by Patrick Daly. Popular with members of the Parliament of Ireland, who funded a new clubhouse next door to the Irish Houses of Parliament. It declined after the Acts of Union 1800 abolished the Parliament, being eclipsed by the Kildare Street Club.
|
| Kildare Street Club
|
2-3 Kildare Street (1952-76)
1-3 Kildare Street (1860-1952)
5-6 Kildare Street (1782-1860)
|
1782
|
1976 (merged with University Club)
|
Pre-eminent club of the Protestant Ascendancy, especially the landed gentry and the Dublin Castle administration.
|
| Sackville Street Club
|
Sackville Street (now O'Connell Street)
|
1795
|
1920s
|
Regarded as more staunchly Unionist and Protestant than the Kildare Street Club; it closed after the Irish Free State was founded.
|
| Stephen's Green Club
|
9 St. Stephen's Green
|
1840
|
2004 (Merged with Hibernian United Services Club)
|
Nicknamed "Whigs on the Green"'; Daniel O'Connell was a founder member. Regarded as more conciliatory to Irish nationalists and Catholics than the Kildare Street Club.
|
| Catholic Commercial Club
|
42 Upper Sackville Street
|
1882
|
1954
|
Founded by Irish Parliamentary Party supporters among the rising Catholic middle classes
|
| Dublin University Club
|
17 St. Stephen's Green
|
1850
|
1976 (Merged with the Kildare Street Club)
|
For graduates of Dublin University.
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| Ulster Club
|
|
|
|
|
| Friendly Brothers of St. Patrick
|
22 St Stephen's Green (from 1885); Sackville Street (from 18??);
|
1750
|
2000s
|
The "Grand Knot" (central lodge) of a national (and international) organisation, the "Ancient and Most Benevolent Order of the Friendly Brothers of St. Patrick." Most other "knots" were defunct by the 1970s.
|
| Hibernian United Services Club
|
8 St Stephen's Green
|
1832
|
2003 (Merged with Stephen's Green Club)
|
Originally for veterans and members of the British Armed Forces; allowed broader membership after 1922.
|
| Kildare Street and University Club
|
17 St Stephen's Green
|
1976
|
Extant
|
Merger of Kildare Street Club and University Club
|
| Stephen's Green Hibernian Club
|
9 St Stephen's Green
|
2003
|
Extant
|
Merger of Stephen's Green Club and Hibernian United Services Club
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