The Hybern House, Prague

The first church and monastery in this place was built by Charles IV. But the monastery did not survive the Hussite revolution.
In the middle of the 17th century a new building was built - the monastery of Irish Franciscans. At that time, Cromwell's revolution was at its peak. Catholic monks in Ireland were persecuted. So they went to the Emperor, to Bohemia. Ireland is in Latin Hibernia. That's why the building is called The Hybern house.
They allegedly were the first to grow potatoes in Bohemia in the early 18th century.
In 1786 Emperor Joseph II. the monastery abolished. The building was used differently. As a customs house, theater, exhibition hall ... At the beginning of the 19th century it was rebuilt in the style of the Empire.
Today there is theater.