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

Rotunda Hospital: Assembly Rooms

Architectural partnership of Pugin and Ashlin formed in 1860.

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.

Replica of early C18 Dutch Billy style house. Moved during early C20 road widening.

Price's Medical Hall: general view

Mountpleasant Square lies south of the grand canal, and was completed by 1830. The principal developers were Solomon Williams and Terence Dolan.

Comprises Nos. 78-81 St Stephen's Green behind a 7-bay Portland Stone façade. No. 80 built in 1736-7 for Robert Clayton, Bishop of Cork and Ross, to designs by Richard Castle. Extended from 1862 by J. F. Fuller and Benjamin Lee Guinness.

Plasterwork by Barthelemij Cramillion 1755-57.

Plasterwork by Barthelemij Cramillion 1755-57.

Plasterwork by Barthelemij Cramillion 1755-57.

Dublin Castle: Upper Castle Yard, Bedford Tower

Begun in 1765 and completed in 1786 for George Augustus Rochfort, 2nd Earl of Belvedere. Designs for the interiors are contained in the Stapleton collection of drawings in the National Library of Ireland.

Development of Fitzwilliam (now Pembroke) estate instigated by 6th Viscount Fitzwilliam from 1752. Probably no. 41 Merrion Square East.

St Catherine (C. of I.): façade (detail)

The street was laid out by Luke Gardiner in 1729-30. It was named after the wife of Charles Paulet, 2nd Duke of Bolton, who was Lord Lieutenant in 1717-21. Regarded as the finest example of early Georgian streetscape in Dublin, it formed part of the extensive Gardiner Estate developed throughout the C18.

University Church: columns

Mountpleasant Square lies south of the grand canal, and was completed by 1830. The principal developers were Solomon Williams and Terence Dolan.

Development of Fitzwilliam (now Pembroke) estate instigated by 6th Viscount Fitzwilliam from 1752.

Plasterwork by Barthelemij Cramillion 1755-57.

Formerly a preaching hall erected by the Plymouth Brethren.

Lombard Street: general view

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.

Nos. 85 and 86 St Stephen's Green together constitute Newman House: they were built in 1738 and 1765 respectively.