The origin of Ireland’s Ordnance Survey

Land Surveying in Ireland, 1690–1830

Finnian Ó Cionnaith

Ireland's rich history of manuscript and printed maps is testament to the information that earlier generations sought from the environment around them. Although…

Mapping, measurement and metropolis

How land surveyors shaped eighteenth-century Dublin

Finnian Ó Cionnaith

This comprehensively illustrated book charts the exceptional impact that a small group of land surveyors had on the development of Dublin city during the eighte…

Exercise of authority

Surveyor Thomas Owen and the paving, cleansing and lighting of Georgian Dublin

Finnian Ó Cionnaith

The Dublin Paving Board (founded 1744) was a controversial organization that attempted to bring order to Dublin’s streets during the late eighteenth century. Gr…

The building site in eighteenth-century Ireland

by Arthur Gibney

Livia Hurley & Edward McParland, editors

This study by the late Arthur Gibney takes you among labourers, craftspeople, contractors, builders and designers as they populate the building sites of eightee…

The early residential buildings of Trinity College Dublin

Architecture, financing, people

R.A. Somerville

This book contains a history of the early buildings of Trinity College, from the Elizabethan Quadrangle up to the residential ranges of the early eighteenth cen…

The Museum Building of Trinity College Dublin

A model of Victorian craftsmanship

Christine Casey & Patrick N. Wyse Jackson, editors

This volume addresses the most influential Victorian building in the city of Dublin and explores the new standard which it set in the use of Irish decorative st…

Medieval Irish buildings, 1100–1600

Tadhg O'Keeffe

The Irish landscape is dotted with thousands of medieval buildings, most of them in ruins. They are an invaluable resource, individually and collectively, for m…

Medieval ecclesiastical buildings in Ireland, 1789–1915

Building on the past

Niamh NicGhabhann

This is the first full-length study of the perception and treatment of Gothic architecture in Ireland in the period between 1789 and 1915. It considers three ma…

A catalogue of the maps of the estates of the Archbishops of Dublin, 1654–1850

Raymond Refaussé & Mary Clark

The manuscript maps of the estates of the archbishops of Dublin are rare survivals for most of the Church of Ireland's cartographical collections were destroyed…

Dublin from 1970 to 1990

The City Transformed

Joseph Brady

Dublin’s footprint grew steadily during the 1970s with housing transforming the landscape of the west of the city, especially in Tallaght, Clondalkin and Blanch…

Dublin, 1910–1940

Shaping the city and suburbs

Ruth McManus

Between 1910 and 1940 Dublin's suburbs grew considerably. For the first time, planned suburbanization of the working classes became a stated policy, with new an…