Cleary’s Bar & Lounge on Amiens Street is up for sale for a handsome €1.35 million.
The iconic boozer, which was frequented by Michael Collins himself, hits the market as Dessie Hanlon decides to retire. Coldwell Banker Commercial with joint agent, John Younge Auctioneers are offering a wonderful retailing and investment opportunity with the sale of J & M Cleary's Pub.
Cleary’s Bar & Lounge was built in the late 1800s and was originally intended as a boarding house for the workers from Great Drogheda and Northern Railways building Connolly Station. The building became a public house in 1846, then called The Signal House.
The Signal House was mentioned in James Joyce's Ulysses along with the surrounding area which was known as a red light district, or Monto in Ulysses. The pub's original owner, Jim Cleary, was friends with Michael Collins and Harry Boland.
Michael Collins held meetings there during the Irish War of Independence and frequently slept in one of the overhead apartments. To this day, pictures of Collins and other Irish heroes from the time adorn the walls.
In fact, the 1996 film Michael Collins, starring Liam Neeson, Alan Rickman, Julia Roberts, Aidan Quinn, Stephen Rea and Brendan Gleeson, featured scenes which were filmed in Cleary's. Parts of The Commitments were also filmed here.
The film Term of Trial starring Laurence Olivier was also shot in Cleary's as was the 2010 documentary Ireland's Greatest' narrated by Michael McDowell.
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