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Opening day of the Square in Tallaght, October 1990
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The interior of Tomangos nightclub in Portmarnock in the 1980s
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The new 634 bed Clink Hostel (Clink i Lár) on Abbey Street Upper. 5,355 square metres, 11 floors.
So large it has brought down the price of hostels, hotels and Airbnbs across the city
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163 - 167 James Street, Dublin in 1960, 1995, 2004 and 2011 showing the degradation over time
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Christchurch Cathedral, Dublin before and after its 1878 refurbishment and partial rebuilding by George Edmund Street
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Another school that have moved out of the city...
Wesley College on St Stephen's Green in Dublin (1879) a gothic red brick Victorian structure which was ultimately demolished for low-grade offices in 1972.
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The interiors of the top floor of the Central Bank on Dame Street in 1979
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View of 31-33 College Green. The premised of Atkinson & Company poplin at 31-32 and a post office at 33. All demolished to make way for the current Ulster Bank offices
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Old postcard for the Tara Tower Hotel in Dublin, 1975
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Dublin in 1984.
The city centre had depopulated, containerisation had hollowed out the industrial core and much of the retail and industrial buildings had been simply demolished.
Many smaller North American cities still look like this.
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The Dublin equivalent to this was 30 Herbert Street completed in 1996 by Treasury Holdings and designed by Arthur Gibney & Partners as the headquarters of the law firm Matheson (then Matheson Orsmby Prentice)
Postmodern ~ neoclassical, the stone looks great in the right light
Brand new building in Budapest
Beauty and craftsmanship is making a comeback
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I don't believe any building in Ireland captured the zeitgeist of the Celtic Tiger years as much as the neo-Palladian Powerscourt Hotel in County Wicklow, developed by Treasury Holdings as a Ritz-Carlton hotel in 2007 at a cost of around €200m and constructed by John Sisk & Sons
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Daly's Club on College Green in Dublin designed by Francis Johnston and completed in 1790. A significant portion of the main body of the building is still intact from front to back
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Photo of Heuston Station, Dublin (1844) caught by the winter sun in late December
With thanks to
@gerrylynch
for the photo
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The slender residential East wharf tower on the corner of the Tolka, East Wall and Alfie Byrne Road just topped out on the 15th and final floor slab.
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Longford Street, Dublin as it once was, it contained some of the last gabled houses in the city in the Dutch style.
So called 'Dutch billies'
Not a single structure built prior to the 1980s remains
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€15m Braodstone bus Depot Renovations now nearly complete - still some work to do on the Grangegorman gate area
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City Arts Centre, City Quay, Dublin 2 - back when it was maintained (but not even refurbished) with the absolute bare minimum of funding.
Home truth: Any building looks terrible after 18 years of dereliction
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A plan of Merrion Street and the adjacent neigbourhood by Ionath Barker (1762) - just before the building boom in Georgian houses took off
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Rare photo of College Green (Pre 1865) showing Daly's Club as it once was in its original form.
A gift from the Weston family to the Getty museum
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Permission granted for a €20m retail park in Drogheda. Its sad to see this happening when there is so much empty retail stock in the town, the policy of expanding out-of-town retail parks has hollowed out Drogheda as it has done to Limerick and resulted in increased dereliction
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A few CGIs of the Guinness and St.James Gate redevelopment submission just lodged by Ballymore and designed by Faulkner Brown
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Ormond Quay Presbyterian Church - an illustration from an American tourists guide to Dublin.
Constructed in 1847, it burned down in the 1960s although part of the ground floor remains and can be seen incorporated into an office building.
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Grand Canal Harbour (not Grand Canal Dock) as it once was. A veritable little Venice until it was filled in around 1975
View today (pending development):
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Santry house and demesne - circa 1703 to 1959. A portion of the grounds now make up Santry park, one of Dublin's nicest parks
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For the day thats in it.... the US embassy in Dublin in the 1960s
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CGIs of new bridge from Ringsend to Grand Canal Dock
Likely early planners sketch rather than a real plan for the bridge but gives a good indication of the changes to come in the area connecting up the Docks, Docklands, Three arena and tunnel to Grand Canal Docks area
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I drafted up a very quick Wikipedia page on one Ireland's most interesting early Georgian Houses - Mount Ievers Court near Sixmilebridge in County Clare
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Kinsaley House - a 6 bed early Georgian home in the Dublin suburbs with mature gardens on sale for €695k. The original interior appears intact - pine staircase and floors, doors, most windows, lugged architraves, corner fireplaces, pine floors..
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Photo of Drumcondra Village in the 1850s by Sir John Joscelyn Coghill
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Ormond Quay in 1966 by Evelyn Hoffer
Much the same today
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The Yellow House bar, Rathfarnham, South County Dublin (1885) - there aren't many like it in Ireland
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378 photos of Dublin buildings from 1974 courtesy of the DePaul University Chicago digital library.
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New infill apartments at Percy Place, Dublin 2. Thoughts and analysis?
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St. Werburgh's Church, built c1719 at a cost of £8,000, The tower and spire seem to have been added around 1768.
Everything above the red line was later removed in 1810 for fear a sniper could use the tower to attack Dublin Castle, the photo on the right is the church today
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Georgian House on the corner of Buckingham Street and Summerhill. The top floor has been lopped off, windows have been blocked up and it has been pebbledashed over but most of the historic fabric is still there and it can still be easily returned to residential use again
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Rare illustration of Morrison's Hotel. Located at the corner of Dawson Street and Nassau Street where Morrison's Chambers is located today. It was the most notable hotel in Dublin in its day and Charles Dickens stayed there in 1858 on his tour of Ireland.
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Rare image of St. Michan's park just after the demolition of Newgate Prison in 1895 where a band stand had been erected. In 1903 a statue of Erin was erected to mark the United Irishmen who were hanged at the prison after the 1798 rebellion
View today:
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Metropole Hotel, O'Connell Street, Dublin - taken around 1900
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The derelict shell of the Sentinel building in Sandyford has just been granted permission to convert it to 110 apartments, 13+ years after the frame was finished.
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For Bloomsday... It is little known that James Joyce opened Dublin's first cinema, the Volta Electric Theatre at 45 Mary Street in December 1909. It was closed in 1948 and the builidng was later demolished to make way for an extension of Penneys (Primark) headquarters.
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Tudenham Park House, County Westmeath on the shore of Lough Ennell is currently for sale for around €1.2m. Completed in 1746 to a design by Richard Cassels.
In need of a wealthy local Mullingar saviour to restore it to residential use (@ MichaelO'Leary)
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The Baring family at the Edwin Lutyens designed Lambay house at Lambay Island off the coast of Dublin.
The Baring family lost most of their fortune during the 1995 collapse of Barings Bank (as depicted in the film Rogue Trader with Ewan McGregor) but have held on to the island.
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Parnell Square c1950s before the Garden of Remembrance. It would be great to see the remaining portion of the square returned to park use (bar the original hospital and theatre) at some stage.
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A few photos of inner city Dublin from an unknown photographer c1960s
2 of the locations are instantly recognizable but the third is a bit more difficult
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The beautiful bow back of the Catholic University School (CUS) on Leeson Street in Dublin. One of the few schools remaining in its original city campus - most moved out to the suburbs by the 70s which contributed significantly towards the deterioration of the city
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The basement and foundations and part of the ground floor of Molyneux House (1711) on the corner of Peter Street and Bride Street, now demolished to make way for a budget hotel
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The ceramic tiled bar at the newly opened Leinster Hotel on Lower Mount Street, Dublin 2. It echoes the only remaining exterior part of the former Howl at the Moon/Odwyer's pub which was originally a c1890 Victorian arcaded shopfront.
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Cattle being driven up Sheriff Street towards Dublin Port - taken from the Sheriff Street Lifting Bridge at Spencer Dock
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Leinster Market off D'Olier Street, Dublin 2
From the Fr Browne collection
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Photos of a decaying Hardwicke Street in Dublin in the c1950s from the Boston College
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Portobello Harbour - filled-in in later years as a public square
Ideally I would like to see what is left of it turned back into a canal basin and water amenity rather than as a concrete/granite square. The battery factory shown closed in 1984. Photos are from 1952/53
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Slum Clearances on Lower Dominick Street, November 1958.
Georgian houses dating from the 1750s when it was Dublin's finest street
Replaced in the early 1960s with Dublin Corporation flats which are now also to be replaced.
View today:
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3 photos of tenements on Fade Street in Dublin 2.
The first with the woman and girl in the doorway is from circa 1879, the second is the opposite side of the street facing in the same direction. The two later images are likely from around 1900.
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Detailed fire insurance map from 1885 showing the maze of streets, alleys, laneways and yards around Parnell Street and Moore Street.... all have since disappeared. It must have felt Dickensian to walk through the area
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Nothing says museum like demolishing half of what you are supposed to be showing off in the first place.
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Lock 4 of the grand canal at Baggot Street bridge in 1969.
From left to right, Victorian red brick buildings, modest Georgian townhouses and Bord Failte headquarters (1962) have all now been demolished.
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Hibernian Dining Rooms at 138 Capel Street and 31 South Great Georges Street.
The Capel street building dates from c1730 and is still there today albeit it has seen better days.
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In 1885 Charles Goad made some incredibly detailed fire insurance maps of the city of Dublin. Every single building in the entire city is detailed including a split out of the internal usage. Access to all maps below...
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There were a few posts recently about Mountjoy Square on various forums incorrectly assuming that the fascimile Georgian housing on the South side of the square was original, in reality only 3 true Georgian houses remain on that side. Nos 39, 46 and 47 all built circa 1795
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What lies beneath: New lease of life for 24 Fenian Street, Dublin 2 - dodgy windowless mansard and dodgy double roofline apart it looks good
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The corner of Usher's Quay and St Augustine Street in 1988.
The remains of arcaded and rusticated shopfronts and houses now all demolished and replaced with apartments.
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Home's Royal Arcade on College Green, Dublin 2 (1818-1837). A popular leisure destination in its day which extended from College Green to Suffolk Street, it was destroyed in a fire which engulfed it and surrounding buildings on 25 April 1837.
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Now demolished curved corner building at the corner of Patrick Street and Kevin Street upper/Dean Street
It was for a period Mckenna's, Quinn's and Nash's pub. It is now trades as the Fourth Corner from an inferior 2000's built block.
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Blackrock Village, Dublin c1965 from an American universities archive
Almost identical today except with more cars and bigger cars
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Postcard of offices of the White Star Line shipping company, owner of the Titanic, at 1 & 2 Eden Quay, building constructed c 1917.
Unit now operating as a Daybreak newsagents with insensitive signage and advertising.
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IS Varian & Co brush manufacturers - 91/92 Talbot Street, Dublin.
Demolished around 1978 to make way for the Irish Life centre
View today:
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Looking up Molesworth Street towards Leinster House c1900
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A monster of an application has gone in for 702 apartments as part of a larger overall development by Glenveagh property at Castleforbes Business Park, East Wall, Dublin 1 (554 apartments have already been granted permission)
- 18 floors at its tallest
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Twin doors with single pediment at 7 Ship Street Great, Dublin around 1908. Are there any other like it in Ireland?
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Deanery House on Fishamble Street, Dublin (1733-1880s?)
Designed by Edward Lovett Pearce
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The old West front of Trinity College Dublin facing on to College Green.
Built c1697 and replaced with the current west front around 1759. Illustration here is from Charles Brooking's map of Dublin in 1728.
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Massive red and yellow brick malthouse in Newmarket/Wards Hill, Dublin 8. Likely built around 1906 to a design by Frederick Hicks.
Demolished in the 1980s or 1990s. The site now contains apartments.
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Dominic Hall apartments on Dominic Street.
Seems like a fairly large missed opportunity to make a more pleasant public realm by the Luas stop and set the apartments back further from the street line and include street trees.
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The original city basin near St James' hospital was originally fed by the Poddle when it was constructed from 1721-24. It was a fasionable resort and park with an ornamental arched gateway as well. It was later fed by the Grand Canal.
Work at St James Linear Park uncovers some fabulous archaeology, thought to be an early basin along what was the original Grand Canal alignment.
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Caffrey's College, 109 St Stephen's Green near the corner with Cuffe Street, the building was later demolished along with around 10 other Georgian and Victorian buildings and is now the site of the Ardilaun Centre (1981) adjacent to the Unitarian Church
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A harpist and a violinist photographed in the 1940s by Bill Brandt and Lee Miller.
Regular Dublin street performers around the Grafton Street area at the time.
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12+ years on and the refurbishment of the lamps on Ballsbridge is nearing completion.
@DubCityCouncil
‘s longest running project…
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"Map" of Dublin (early 1700s i'm guessing), name all the churches and spires left to right
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Illustration of the front of the Smock Alley Theatre from the Gentleman's Magazine (1789). Constructed in 1735 to a design by Michael Wills, it was later mostly replaced with the current gothic catholic church facade and structure in around 1815
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James Street, Dublin c1880 from the National Library of Ireland uploaded to Flickr this morning
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The Church of Ireland's dedicated database of architectural drawings and images is at the link below and features c 9,700 items.
I had never come across it before today but is very easy to navigate
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Views of Tara Street looking towards Butt Bridge.
The swing bridge was replaced with the current concrete structure in 1932
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How not to design a street, planning gone in for a further extension to the Clayton Hotel on Macken Street creating a dark sheer glass and steel wind-tunnel
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Langford House on Mary Street - located where the entrance to the Jervis Centre is today on Mary Street but it was set back from the street line. Constructed c1700. In 1765 Robert Adam redesigned the interior and in 1809 it was re-clad in brick and made to look Georgian.
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Dublin's first Electric tram - the beginning of light rail - May 17th 1896
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1850s photo by Sir John Joscelyn Coghill of Belvidere House in Drumcondra. In its original form built around 1660.
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The Duke of Abercorn pleasure steamer berthed at Georges Quay beside Tara Street Station. (There appears to have been a few pleasure steamers called the Duke of Abercorn)
The sole surviving building in this view being Kennedy's pub (The Workshop) and the loop line bridge itself
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A bird's eye view of the church street housing scheme in 1915
24 - 4 Room houses
94 - 3 Room houses
28 - 2 Room houses
Today:
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Carlow is one of the only places you will see a jail converted into a shopping centre.
You can even still see the gibbet and trap door that were used for executions
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€1.2m for a Georgian house on one of our finest squares, let us hope it gets a shot at sensitive redemption
Parnell Square has been damaged in recent years by the addition of a low grade budget hotel out of keeping in height and materials in this sensitive area.
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Now that the dust has settled (literally) on the Herbert Park debacle. Let's focus the mind on a significantly more important property from an Irish republican, cultural, artistic and architectural standpoint - 30 North Frederick Street (An Stad)
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House on Ardee Street, Dublin 8 - demolished in the early 1900s
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The Barne Estate near Clonmel, County Tipperary on the market for €13.5m. One of Ireland's oldest continuously inhabited houses for sale in a bucolic setting on 750 acres. It was likely constructed in its current form sometime in the 1600s.
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Looking up Mount Street Upper in August 1969 - you will not find a nicer vista in Dublin (via J Sutton on
@Geograph
) (Looking up Hardwice Street to St. George's church might give it a run)
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