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.

Part for Hatch Street approved by the Wide Streets Commissioners in 1791. The north side of the street built between 1810-37.

Designed in 1740 by Richard Castle for Marcus Beresford, Viscount Tyrone. Plasterwork in the stair hall is attributed to Lafranchini stuccodores.

Dublin Castle: Chapel Royal doorcase (detail)

Dublin Castle: Upper Castle Yard, Bedford Tower Cupola

Christ Church, Leeson Park: view from Leeson Street Upper

Dublin Castle: Chapel Royal, label stops

St Stephen's Green laid out as residential square by Dublin Corporation in 1664. Largely built during the first half of the C18.

St Audoen (RC): view from Christ Church cathedral

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.

Photograph c.1978.

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.

Restored in 1979-85 by Costello, Murray & Beaumont. Remodelled as the Irish Museum of Modern Art in 1990, by Shay Cleary Architects.

St Stephen's Green laid out as residential square by Dublin Corporation in 1664. Largely built during the first half of the C18. The view includes Nos. 119-120, built to designs of Richard Castle (d.1751) and leased in 1764 (houses shown at far left have since been demolished).

Christ Church, Leeson Park: view from Leeson Street Upper

Founded in 1812 as a home for 'the aged, reduced and industrious tradesman'.

Plasterwork by Barthelemij Cramillion 1755-57.

Dublin Castle: Chapel Royal

Radically rebuilt in 1767-71 under Henry Keene. Converted to museum use by Gilroy McMahon Architects, 1994-1997.

Designed in 1740 by Richard Castle for Marcus Beresford, Viscount Tyrone. Plasterwork in the stair hall is attributed to Lafranchini stuccodores.

Christ Church, Leeson Park: general view

Designed in 1740 by Richard Castle for Marcus Beresford, Viscount Tyrone. Plasterwork in the stair hall is attributed to Lafranchini stuccodores.

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. Fitzwilliam Place developed in tandem with E and S sides of Fitzwilliam Square.

Dublin Castle: Upper Castle Yard, gateway figure of 'Justice'