"... The redbrick, white-wood-trim Shelbourne hotel has commanded "the best address in Dublin" from the north side of St. Stephen's Green since 1865. After a major renovation and expansion, it reopened in the fall of 2006; a new restaurant, new lounge bar, and 75 guest rooms constitute a major facelift for most iconic hotel. In 1921 the 's constitution was drafted here, in a first-floor suite. wrote her novel The Hotel about this very place."