Bride Street appears in a 1465 map of Dublin as "Synt Bryd stret". The St Bride's Church for which the street is named is first mentioned in 1178.[2] This church was demolished in the late 1800s to make way for the Iveagh Trust housing scheme.[3]Adelaide Hospital was originally located at 42 Bride Street until 1846.[4][5]
Many of the older buildings on Bride Street were demolished during the 1960s to widen the road for increased vehicular traffic.[6] Before this, it was one of the streets illustrated by Flora Mitchell for her book Vanishing Dublin. It depicts the store owned by a noted Dublin character, Johnny Foxes.[7]
Molyneux House sits on the corner of Bride Street and Peter Street. Molyneux House is a converted church and modern office extension that was once the offices of the architect Sam Stephenson who also designed the conversion and extension in 1973.[8] It is built on the site of the old Bird Market, and Stephenson provided the traders with a walled side garden from which they continued to trade.[9]
There is a plaque to John Field on the corner of Bride Street and Golden Lane.[10] Some of the series of plaques created by artist Chris Reid are on Bride Street, with quotes from local residents of the area.[11]