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Bewley's Opens as a Dublin Tea Dealer
The Bewley family began dealing tea in Dublin in 1840, having broken the East India Company's grip on the trade by shipping direct from China, and the cafés followed. The Grafton Street room, with its Harry Clarke windows and open fires, became the city's front parlour.
- In 1840 Samuel Bewley and his son Charles began importing tea directly from China.[1]
- Joshua Bewley's China Tea Company, on Sycamore Street, dealt in tea, sugar and some coffee.[1]
- Ernest Bewley refurbished the former Whyte's Academy on Grafton Street, which opened in 1927.[1]
- It was rebuilt in 1926 to Miller and Symes's design, with Egyptian-style mosaics, and six Harry Clarke windows from 1927.[2]
- Whyte's Academy had educated Wellington and Robert Emmet.[1]