Church of Ireland has two - one national and one for diocese - but even John Charles McQuaid couldn’t get a ‘proper’ Catholic one over the line
A site there was bought by the Church in 1930 for the princely sum of £100,000. However, most of the funds collected for the building of a new cathedral at Merrion Square ended up being spent on new churches in the rapidly growing archdiocese.
Following the Easter Rising of 1916 it was even suggested that the burnt-out GPO might be a suitable location for Dublin’s Catholic cathedral, a view supported by W T Cosgrave, then president of the executive council of the Irish Free State.
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