Talk:Kildare Street Club

A fact from Kildare Street Club appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 February 2011 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that Dublin's former Kildare Street Club is adorned by whimsical beasts, such as monkeys playing billiards (pictured)? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2011/February.

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The article states that the joining fee for the club was set at £26.10.00, and refers to Samuel Lewis' "A topographical dictionary of Ireland" of 1840 for confirmation of this. However, note that entrance (joining) fees for clubs tended to be set in guineas, not pounds sterling. £26.10.00 is not a round number of guineas. The most likely explanation is that the entrance fee for the club was gn.25, which would be £26.05.00. Whilst I do not wish to change the article's text without appropriate documentary evidence, I would encourage interested editors with access to the original club records to verify the 1840 entrance fee from a primary source, rather than relying on Lewis. RomanSpa (talk) 22:11, 11 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]