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History behind choice of room names
To highlight the history of our town we named each office after a historical figure that featured in the evolution of our town.
O'CONNELL ROOM
This office is named after Daniel O'Connell who was hailed in his time as The Liberator, and was the acknowledged political leader of Ireland's Roman Catholic majority in the first half of the 19th century.
GEORGE'S ROOM
This office is named after our town's main street. The combined main street was named after George IV who visited the town in 1821, and changed the town name to Kingstown.
MARCONI ROOM
This office is named after Guglielmo Marconi who carried out the first commercial use of wireless aboard a floating vessel when he transmitted signals of the results of the Kingstown Regatta in July 1898.
TOUTCHER ROOM
This office is named after one of the unsung heroes of the building of the harbour, after the drowning tragedies of two ship sinkings he paid for the stone used in the harbour.
LEE ROOM
Lee's had a department store in Dun Laoghaire and this office is named after the owner was seen as a sympathetic employer when he tried to break the deadlock between employers and unions in the 1913 lockout.
DARGAN ROOM
This office is named after William Dargan, a pioneer of Irish rail and in 1833 he won the contract to construct this country’s first railway from Westland Row (Pearse Station) to Kingstown, as Dún Laoghaire was then known.
ROBINSON ROOM
This office is named after John Loftus Robinson who designed Dún Laoghaire Town Hall in the Lombard Romanesque style, was completed in 1879.