TODAY MARKS the newest chapter in the storied history of Dublin’s oldest surviving charity. The Sick and Indigent Roomkeepers Society is probably also the one with the oddest name.
Today the society – which was established in 1790 – is moving up in the world, sort of, as it changes location from 34 Lower to 74 Upper Leeson Street.
In reality, the change, which moves them farther from the city centre, is necessary for the organisation’s survival. Put simply, it can no longer afford the rent during a time when donations are scarcer and requests for help more frequent.
So yesterday, paintings came down, mementos were taken off the shelves and hundreds of years of Dublin city’s history was packed into boxes to be moved to a new home across the Grand Canal. – The Irish Times
We learn today that the The Sick and Indigent Roomkeepers Society is moving address once again. Before Leeson Street, they were based on Palace Street (Dublin’s shortest street with only two addresses) from 1855 to 1992. Here they left one of Dublin’s best loved Ghost Signs.
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Donal
Ciarán
Sam
Come Here To Me! 
Which for years I thought read “The Sick and Indignant Roomkeepers Society”
And I spent many fruitless years searching for digs run by sick & indecent roomkeepers. They are out there.
[…] two addresses. No.1 is the French restaurant Chez Max and No.2 was the building that hosted the The Sick and Indigent Roomkeepers Society from 1855 to 1992. Nos 1 and 2 Palace Street on the left of the picture. Share […]