 For much of the eighteenth century the society met in public houses – "the Rose and Bottle or Phoenix Tavern or Power's Inn or Jude's Hotel", as James Joyce recounts in "Finnegans Wake".In 1783 the society was partially subsumed by the newly formed Dublin Chamber of Commerce, whose meetings generally took place in the Commercial Buildings on College Green.A stone plaque commemorating the society can still be seen above the doorway of No.