Selection of 35mm slides from the collection of the School of Art History and Cultural Policy, focusing on the domestic architecture of eighteenth-century Dublin.

Merrion Square: general view of north side

Merrion Street: general view of east side

Merrion Square: view of south east corner

Merrion Square, No. 12: façade

Henrietta Street, Nos. 11-13: facades

Henrietta Street, No. 10: façade

Henrietta Street, No. 9: facade

Henrietta Street, Nos. 5-6: façade

Merrion Square: view of north side from middle of square

Merrion Square: view of south side looking towards Mount Street Upper

Merrion Square: view of north side

Merrion Square: view of south side from middle of square

Leeson Street Lower: view of north side

Ely Place: view of east side

Mountjoy Square: derelict house on west side

O'Connell Street, No. 42: façade

Mount Street Upper: detail of stepped crescent

Mountjoy Square: view of north side

Mount Street Upper: view towards St. Stephen's Church

Mountjoy Square: general view of dereliction on west side

Pembroke Street Upper: view from Leeson Street Lower

North Great George's Street: view towards Belvedere House

O'Connell Street, No. 42: doorcase

Mountjoy Square: view of north side looking east

Ely Place, Ely House

Development of Fitzwilliam (now Pembroke) estate instigated by 6th Viscount Fitzwilliam from 1752. Fitzwilliam Place developed in tandem with E and S sides of Fitzwilliam Square.

Part of the extensive Gardiner Estate instigated by Luke Gardiner in the 1720s. Mountjoy Square first planned and laid out in 1787. Building began in 1789. Nos. 25-7 built from 1797 by Frederick Darley.

Part of the extensive Gardiner Estate instigated by Luke Gardiner in the 1720s. Mountjoy Square first planned and laid out in 1787. Building began in 1789.

Development of Fitzwilliam (now Pembroke) estate instigated by 6th Viscount Fitzwilliam from 1752. Leases for the south side were issued from 1786.

Part of the Fitzwilliam (now Pembroke) Estate, laid out in the early 1750s. This house is reputedly the birthplace of the 1st Duke of Wellington, son of Garrett, 1st Earl of Mornington who built the house.

The street was laid out by Luke Gardiner in 1729-30. Originally a single five-bay house. Built by Nathaniel Clements for Henry, 8th Earl of Thomond (d.1741). First resident (in 1743) was Brabazon Ponsonby, 1st Earl of Bessborough.

Development of Fitzwilliam (now Pembroke) estate instigated by 6th Viscount Fitzwilliam from 1752. Leases for the south side were issued from 1786.

Development of Fitzwilliam (now Pembroke) estate instigated by 6th Viscount Fitzwilliam from 1752. Leases for the east side were issued from 1786.

Residence of Henry Loftus, 3rd Earl of Ely. Purchased in 1770 from the developer Gustavus Hume.

Development of Fitzwilliam (now Pembroke) estate instigated by 6th Viscount Fitzwilliam from 1752. The relatively homogenous elevations belie the speculative and piecemeal nature of construction.

This was Nathaniel Clement's residence, built between 1739-43. Double-height stair hall.

Begun in 1765 and completed in 1786 for George Augustus Rochfort, 2nd Earl of Belvedere. Belvedere College S.J. is now a private school for boys, founded in 1832. The building on the left, one of the school wings, was built in 1952 in a neo-Georgian style.

Development of Fitzwilliam (now Pembroke) estate instigated by 6th Viscount Fitzwilliam from 1752. The relatively homogenous elevations belie the speculative and piecemeal nature of construction.

Formerly Sackville Street and originally laid out as residential enclave of the Gardiner Estate in 1749. No. 42 is the sole surviving C18 house on the street. Ground leased to Robert Robinson, MD, in 1752. The house appears on John Rocque's map of Dublin published in 1756.

Designed in 1763 by Sir William Chambers as a private residence for the 1st Earl of Charlemont. Forms the centrepiece of the north side of Parnell (formerly Rutland) Square. Remodelled as an art gallery in 1931-3 by City Architect Horace O'Rourke.

Development of Fitzwilliam (now Pembroke) estate instigated by 6th Viscount Fitzwilliam from 1752. Built in 1764-6 for William Brownlow, MP for Lurgan.

Part of the Fitzwilliam (now Pembroke) estate instigated by 6th Viscount Fitzwilliam from 1752. Mount Street Upper laid out c1789, but principally built between 1829-31. The houses here step back forming a type of crude crescent-shaped plan.

Part of the extensive Gardiner Estate instigated by Luke Gardiner in the 1720s. Mountjoy Square first planned and laid out in 1787. Building began in 1789.

Laid out with Hume Street in 1768 by the developer Gustavus Hume. Nos. 9 and 10 built by Nathaniel Callwell in 1811.

Parnell Square East: general view

Plots leased here from 1758.

The street was laid out by Luke Gardiner in 1729-30. Nos. 11 and 12 (at centre of image) were built by Luke Gardiner and leased respectively to Henry Boyle, Earl of Shannon, and William Stewart, 3rd Viscount Mountjoy. No. 12 was substantially re-modelled in 1782. No. 13 (far left) dates to 1740s. The King's Inns Library, designed 1825-8 by Frederick Darley, is just visible at far right.