Dublin : The City Within the Grand and Royal Canals and the Circular Road, with the Phoenix Park

by Christine Casey

• ISBN13: 9780300109238
• ISBN10: 0300109237
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2006-02-28
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

In this uniquely comprehensive guide to the buildings of central Dublin, the city's churches, public buildings, and streets are described for every district in lively detail. The entire area within the canals is covered as well, along with the Phoenix Park. Illustrations include numerous maps, plans, and new color photographs. Dublin's grand eighteenth-century set-piecesCustom House, Four Courts, Bank of Irelandare offset by a graceful Georgian cityscape, much of which remains intact. Rich and varied house interiors are also treated in full, many for the first time. The book features civic and commercial Victorian architecture, post-war buildings, and the buildings of a new generation of Irish architects. Two fine Gothic cathedrals remain from the medieval city, the full history of which is traced in an introduction to the volume. For all who share an interest in the fabric of Dublinarchitect or historian, tourist or armchair travellerthis is the essential work.

Author Biography

Christine Casey is a lecturer in the History of Art Department, University College Dublin.

Table of Contents

List of Text Figures and Maps	ix
Photographic Acknowledgements	xii
Abbreviations and Lists of Architects	xiii
Foreword	xiv
Acknowledgements	xviii
Introduction
Building Materials	2	(8)
The Early Development of Dublin	10	(9)
Howard B. Clarke
Medieval Architecture	19	(3)
Expansion 1600--1720	22	(4)
Public Buildings 1700--1760	26	(6)
Domestic Architecture 1700--1830	32	(7)
Plasterwork and Painted Decoration to the Mid Nineteenth Century	39	(4)
Expansion and City Planning 1720--1800	43	(4)
Public Buildings 1760--1820	47	(3)
Public Buildings from the Act of Union to Independence (1800--1920)	50	(3)
Religious Buildings 1800--1920	53	(6)
Monuments and Sculpture c. 1600--1914	59	(3)
Stained Glass	62	(2)
Commercial and Industrial Architecture 1800--1920	64	(6)
Domestic Architecture 1830--1920	70	(4)
Architecture after Independence	74	(2)
Architecture Since 1950	76	(4)
Further Reading	80	(3)
Dublin City
North	83	(230)
Markets Area	83	(32)
Gardiner Estate and Environs	115	(120)
Oxmantown	235	(38)
Phibsborough	273	(14)
The Phoenix Park	287	(26)
South	313	(386)
The Medieval City	313	(64)
College Green	377	(48)
Temple Bar	425	(22)
South Lotts	447	(18)
St Stephen's Green and Environs	465	(90)
Pembroke Estate	555	(42)
The Liberties and Environs	597	(76)
Royal Hospital, Kilmainham and Environs	673	(18)
Liffey Bridges	691	(8)
Glossary	699	(22)
Index of Artists, Architects, Patrons, Residents and Visitors	721	(18)
Index of Streets, Buildings and Monuments	739