Architecture

The Uí Chellaig lords of Uí Maine and Tír Maine

An archaeological and landscape exploration of a later medieval inland Gaelic lordship

Daniel Patrick Curley

The Ó Cellaig (O’Kelly) lordship of Uí Maine and Tír Maine was a substantial political territory and influential cultural power in later medieval Connacht. This…

Visitors to the Country House in Ireland and Britain

Welcome and Unwelcome

Terence Dooley & Christopher Ridgway, editors

Country houses have always been magnets for visitors. In early days individuals with the correct social credentials could gain entry, while visitors such as roy…

Spectral Mansions

The making of a Dublin tenement, 1800–1914

Timothy Murtagh

In 1800, Dublin was one of the largest and most impressive cities in Europe. The city’s town houses and squares represented the pinnacle of Georgian elegance. H…

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…

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…

Ireland Encastellated, AD 950–1550

Insular castle-building in its European context

Tadhg O'Keeffe

Despite an ever-expanding literature on Irish castles, the relationships between the castle-building tradition in Ireland and those of contemporary Europe have …

The Best Address in Town

Henrietta Street, Dublin and Its First Residents, 1720-80

Melanie Hayes

Once Dublin’s most exclusive residential street, throughout the eighteenth century Henrietta Street was home to the country’s foremost figures from church, mili…

Irish houses and castles, 1400–1740

Rolf Loeber

This volume assembles Rolf Loeber’s groundbreaking articles on Irish houses and castles from the late medieval period to the mid eighteenth century. Read togeth…

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…

More than concrete blocks: vol. II, 1940–72

Dublin city's twentieth-century buildings and their stories

Ellen Rowley, editor

More than Concrete Blocks: Dublin City’s twentieth-century buildings is a three-volume series of architectural history books which are richly illustrated and wr…

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…

Dublin in the 1950s and 1960s

Cars, shops and suburbs

Joseph Brady

After the relative gloom of the 1950s, there was a rapid economic pick-up in the early 1960s. Car ownership increased as standards of living improved and Dublin…