homes historical dublin

At Nos 80-81 St Stephen's Green is Iveagh House, now the Department of Foreign Affairs, which was presented to the state by the Earl of Iveagh, head of the Guinness family....

No 8 Ely Place is one of the city's finest Georgian mansions, with a magnificent staircase and Adam decoration. The site of Oliver Gogarty's house at No 25 is now occupied by the Royal Hibernian Academy's, now Gallagher Gallery. The RHA has exhibited or given membership to almost every Irish artist of distinction since it was founded a century and a half ago....

Henrietta Street was one of the first Georgian developments in the city and for many years the most fashionable.
Dating from 1720, it was laid out by the first Luke Gardiner, who had his own house here at No 10. Gardiner's residence and No 9 next door are now occupied by a convent.
If you can mentally exclude the parked cars it is easy to imagine this beautiful street as it was in its heyday....

To the north of the Abbey Theatre is Marlborough Street. Tyrone House, built by Richard Cassels in 1742, is now occupied by the Department of Education, and contains fine stuccowork by the Lafrancini brothers....

Off Fitzwilliam Street is Fitzwilliam Square, the smallest, latest and best preserved of Dublin's Georgian squares. The earliest houses date as far back as 1714 but the square was not completed until 1830. Within their unity of style the houses display a constant variety of detail notably in their doorways and fanlights and also in the ornamental ironwork such as doorknockers, boot-scrapers and balconies. The artist Jack Butler Yeats lived at No 18....

Now an award winning shopping centre this palazzo was built for the 4th Viscount Powerscourt, Richard Wingfield, as a family town house. Of magnificent cut stone the design by Robert Mack was built between 1771 and 1774.
The fine rococo plasterwork in the staircase, hall and salon was executed by Irish stuccodores James McCullough and Michael Reynolds. The bill for the plasterwork in the hall presented in 1765 came to IR106.
Unusally the house and its offices were laid out around a...

Newman House consists of two Georgian houses containing examples of Dublin's finest 18th century plasterwork.
Dating to circa 1740, number 85 has recently been fully restored and is a vivid example of the work of the architect Richard Castle and the plasterwork of the Lafrancini brothers.

Number 86 dates to circa 1765 and contains plasterwork in the Irish rococo style. Both houses later became the location of the Catholic University, the original home of UCD.
Cardinal John Henry...

Although located within a few miles of Dublin's advancing urban sprawl, Newbridge House still manages to preserve its character of a secluded eighteenth century gentleman's residence set in a wooded demesne....