Selection of 35mm slides from the collection of the School of Art History and Cultural Policy, focusing on the architecture of Dublin from the middle ages to the 20th century. The collection features images of significant buildings, houses, and decorative interiors throughout the city, with a particular focus on views of the city’s Georgian fabric.

O'Connell Street, No. 42: façade

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.

Lombard Street: general view

Lombard Street: façade of derelict house

Lombard Street: general view

Blackhall Place: general view of west side

Mountjoy Square: derelict house on west side

Blue Coat School (Law Society of Ireland), Blackhall Place: view from Blackhall Street

Blue Coat School (Law Society of Ireland): view from Blackhall Street

The only surviving examples of this particular early C18 house type.

General streetscape including early C18 building fabric.

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. Much demolition along the west and south sides of Mountjoy Square in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. Since rebuilt.

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. Much demolition along the west and south sides of Mountjoy Square in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. Since rebuilt.

Capel Street laid out after 1678 by Sir Humphrey Jervis. Façade since rebuilt.

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.

Fownes Street: general view

Fownes Street, Nos. 3-4: facades

Mountjoy Square: general view of dereliction on west side

Duke of Gloucester Chapel, Sean MacDermott Street: façade

Blue Coat School (Law Society of Ireland), Blackhall Place: view from Blackhall Street

Blue Coat School (Law Society of Ireland), Blackhall Place: view from Blackhall Street

The only surviving examples of this particular early C18 house type.