'Oh, you mean the fireplace site?'

The Nicholas street/St. Peter's Street site is known locally as 'the fireplace site' due to the discovery in the late 1990s of a Medieval fireplace high up in one of the walls (pictured above). The traditional practice of history has ascribed value to that artifact, and many of the people we spoke to regarding the site mentioned that the, to them, the rest of the remains are of 'no historical significance'. We take umbrage to this phrase as we feel that there can be no one, definitive 'history', and so it is not possible to ascribe more value to one artifact than to another. There are several other fireplaces extant within the wall, which led us to develop our thinking regarding the rituals of domesticity, and will perhaps form part of any scheme(s) we produce.

Treaty Café

Treaty

1. a. The treating of a subject in speech or writing; (literary) treatment; discussion. Obs.
2. The treating of matters with a view to settlement; discussion of terms, conference, negotiations. Now rare or Obs. exc. in phr. in treaty.
3. a. A settlement or arrangement arrived at by treating or negotiation; an agreement, covenant, compact, contract. Obs. exc. as in b and in phr. private treaty: see PRIVATE a. 7f.
4. Entreaty, persuasion, request. Obs.
5. Treatment, usage; behaviour. Obs. rare.
6. attrib. and Comb., as treaty-ally, -breaker, -money, -right, skill, -stipulation; treaty-breaking, -making ns. and adjs.; treaty-bound, -sealed adjs.; treaty coast, shore, a coast on or along which some foreign nation has certain rights guaranteed by treaty; treaty Indian N. Amer. (now chiefly Canad.), an Indian whose tribe or band has signed a treaty with the Government; a ward of the Government; treaty-port, a port opened to foreign commerce by a treaty (esp. applied to certain ports in China, Japan, and Korea, in relation to commerce with European nations); Treaty stone, the stone on which the Treaty of Limerick (3 Oct. 1691) was reputedly signed (see quot. 1866).

Café

1. A coffee-house, a restaurant; strictly a French term, but in the late 19th c. introduced into the English-speaking countries for the name of a class of restaurant.