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From: Dennis Ahern <>
Subject: Re: Excerpts from Irish newspapers
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 17:28:52 +0000 (UTC)


From The Cork Examiner, 1 January 1866 -

THE SHELBOURNE HOTEL.
Upon reference to our advertising columns it will be seen that the
Shelbourne Hotel, Stephen's-green, has been purchased by Messrs.
Jury, of College-green, Dublin ; Cotton, of the Imperial Hotel, Cork ;
and Goodman, of the Railway Hotel, Killarney. These gentlemen are
well acquainted with the management of such establishments, and
know what constitutes a first-class family hotel ; it is pretty certain,
therefore, that under their management the Shelbourne has a future in
store for it hardly contemplated by its late proprietor. The three
gentlemen who have embarked on the undertaking are well known for
their enterprise, and for the success which has marked the other
establishments held by them ; for Cotton's Imperial Hotel, Cork is
acknowledged to be the first in Ireland, whilst Jury's, of Dublin, and
the Imperial, in Belfast, also owned by Mr. Jury, have an almost European
reputation ; and Mr. Goodman, who will personally manage the hotel,
is well known to the nobility and gentry of this country, from his
connection with one of the best clubs in this metropolis, but more
recently from his being the successful manager of the Railway Hotel,
Killarney.
We understand it is the intention of the new proprietors to thoroughly
remodel the house and considerably enlarge it. They do not intend to
spare any expense in this direction, their determination being to make
it a first class hotel, with all the newest improvements introduced into
its arrangements and appointments ; and from what we know of the
gentlemen engaged in it, we are pretty certain that the Shelbourne,
when complete, will prove to be one of the best hotels in the United
Kingdom.--Farmer's Gazette

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