Architecture

Dublin, 1950–1970

Houses, flats and high rise

Joseph Brady

Housing occupies more land than any other urban use and it helps define the character of any city. Dublin continued to expand its footprint during the 1950s and…

More than concrete blocks, vol. I

Dublin City's twentieth-century buildings and their stories: 1900–1940

Ellen Rowley, editor

More than Concrete Blocks: Dublin City’s twentieth-century buildings is a three-volume series of architectural history books which are richly illustrated and wr…

The Dublin Civic Portrait Collection

Patronage, politics and patriotism, 1603–2013

Mary Clark

Nominated for the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History 2017

Beginning in the early 17th century and continuing to the present day, the city of Dubli…

The Three Castles of Dublin

An eclectic history of Dublin through the evolution of the city's Coat of Arms

Michael English

The Three Castles have been the symbol of Dublin since 1230AD, when they first appeared on a city seal as three towers situated around one of the fortified gate…

Exercise of authority

Surveyor Thomas Owen and the paving, cleansing and lighting of Georgian Dublin

Finnian Ó Cionnaith

The Dublin Paving Board (founded 1744) was a controversial organization that attempted to bring order to Dublin’s streets during the late eighteenth century. Gr…

The architectural, landscape and constitutional plans of the Earl of Mar, 1700–32

Margaret Stewart

Politics, architecture, landscapes, city designs and infrastructure planning were the substance of the earl of Mar’s creative thinking before and after the Angl…

Irish demesne landscapes, 1660–1740

Vandra Costello

This book charts the history and development of formal gardening in Ireland in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and in particular the grand …

Bridges of Dublin

The remarkable story of Dublin's Liffey bridges

Annette Black & Michael B. Barry

A vivid history of Dublin unfolds in this exploration of more than one thousand years of bridges over the river Liffey. From the time of the Vikings and their s…

The Mansion House, Dublin

300 years of history and hospitality

Mary Clark, editor

Dublin’s Mansion House is the only mayoral residence in Ireland and is older than any surviving in Great Britain. Originally the town house of merchant and prop…

Medieval Irish buildings, 1100–1600

Tadhg O'Keeffe

The Irish landscape is dotted with thousands of medieval buildings, most of them in ruins. They are an invaluable resource, individually and collectively, for m…

Medieval ecclesiastical buildings in Ireland, 1789–1915

Building on the past

Niamh NicGhabhann

This is the first full-length study of the perception and treatment of Gothic architecture in Ireland in the period between 1789 and 1915. It considers three ma…

The Irish Country House

Its past, present and future

Terence Dooley & Christopher Ridgway, editors

‘In their variety, these essays indicate how very new is serious analysis of the Irish country house and how many avenues remain to be explored’, Irish Times. 
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