ISBN: 0300 10923 7
A uniquely comprehensive guide to the buildings of central Dublin. Churches, public buildings and streets are described for every district, each full of new discoveries and lively detail. The entire area within the canals is covered, along with the Phoenix Park. The grand eighteenth-century set-pieces - Custom House, Four Courts, Bank of Ireland - are offset by a graceful Georgian cityscape, much of which remains intact. The rewardingly complex buildings of Trinity College and Dublin Castle are explored in full, and the astonishingly rich and varied house interiors are also described, many for the first time. Civic and commercial Victorian architecture features in strength, together with the highs and lows of post-war building, which culminate in some sensitive and resourceful buildings by a new generation of Irish architects. Two fine Gothic cathedrals remain from the medieval city, whose history is traced in a scholarly introduction that runs down to the present day. Sculpture, monuments and public art - the greatest such concentration in all Ireland - also feature in strength.
