The Museum Building of Trinity College Dublin
The Museum Building of Trinity College Dublin

Author: Christine Casey

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781846827891

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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 stone, the employment of native craftsmen and the unprecedented eclecticism of its design. The geology, quarrying, building, carving and architectural design which created this spectacular structure are explored in a series of papers by established scholars and experts in the field. The book is richly illustrated in full colour to capture the sumptuous polychromy of the building and the profuse detail of its carved ornament.

The Architecture of Deane and Woodward
The Architecture of Deane and Woodward

Author: Frederick O'Dwyer

Publisher: Stylus Publishing, LLC.

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 688

ISBN-13: 9780902561854

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The Architecture of Deane and Woodward chronicles the development of one of the nineteenth century¿s most influential architectural practices: from Deane and Woodward¿s first designs for the Irish provincial elite to their world famous buildings in Dublin.

Introducing Palaeontology
Introducing Palaeontology

Author: Patrick Wyse Jackson

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781780460833

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Introducing Palaeontology provides a concise and accessible introduction to the science of palaeontology. The first part explains what a fossil is and how fossils came to be preserved. The second introduces the major fossil groups from algae and plants to the vertebrates and finally to man's ancestors. A glossary is provided.

The Best Address in Town
The Best Address in Town

Author: Melanie Hayes

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781846828478

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Once Dublin's most exclusive residential street, throughout the eighteenth century Henrietta Street was home to the country's foremost figures from church, military and state. Here, in this elegant setting on the north side of the city, peers rubbed shoulders with property tycoons, clerics consorted with social climbers and celebrated military men mixed with the leading lights of the capital's beau monde, establishing one the principle arenas of elite power in Georgian Ireland. Looking behind the red-brick facades of the once-grand Georgian town houses, this richly illustrated volume focuses on the people who originally populated these spaces, delineating the rich social and architectural history of Henrietta Street during the first fifty years of its existence. Commissioned by Dublin City Council Heritage Office in conjunction with the 14 Henrietta Street museum, by weaving the fascinating and often colourful histories of the original residents around the framework of the buildings, in repopulating the houses with their original occupants and offering a window into the lives carried on within, this book presents a captivating portrait of Dublin?s premier Georgian street, when it was the best address in town.

Library of Trinity College, Dublin
Library of Trinity College, Dublin

Author: Helen Shenton

Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications

Published: 2020-06-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 1785512420

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The Library of Trinity College Dublin dates back to the establishment of the College in 1592 and is the largest library in Ireland. Its extensive collection of journals, manuscripts, maps and music reflects over 400 years of academic development and amounts to over 6 million volumes. A Legal Deposit Library since 1801, it receives copies of all material published in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The most famous of its treasures is the Book of Kells, whose rich illuminations are one of the finest examples of medieval art. Together with the Book of Durrow, also in the collection, they represent Ireland's greatest cultural treasure. The Library also bears testament to more recent history, counting letters from Irish WWI soldiers and various artefacts from the Easter Rising - including a bullet fired through the Library roof - among its collection. This selection of objects highlights the diversity of the holdings and illuminates their fascinating history.

The Early Residential Buildings of Trinity College Dublin
The Early Residential Buildings of Trinity College Dublin

Author: R.A. SOMERVILLE

Publisher:

Published: 2021-07-30

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9781846829680

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This book contains a history of the early buildings of Trinity College, from the Elizabethan Quadrangle up to the residential buildings of the early 18th century. Among all those red-brick buildings only the Rubrics remains, albeit much altered, to suggest what Trinity College looked like before the 1750s, when replacement of the early buildings began. Why and when were new buildings added to the College? How were they funded? Who designed them? Where were materials sourced? What can be said about the architecture of the buildings, all of which, apart from the Rubrics, were pulled down in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? Who managed their construction on the College's behalf, and who carried out the building work? How were essential services provided? The book answers all of these questions, and en route it explores an almost forgotten event, the disastrous fire of February 1726/7, in which at least one house in Library Square was destroyed and several more were damaged. The book also explores the community of residents of the early buildings up to the end of the 19th century. The book ends with a personal memoir of the Rubrics in recent times.

A Companion Guide to Architecture in Ireland, 1837-1921
A Companion Guide to Architecture in Ireland, 1837-1921

Author: Jeremy Williams

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13:

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Drawing together the history of Victorian architecture in Ireland, this book is a gazetteer in the traditional sense, a list of entries for individual buildings on a country by country basis, heavily illustrated and prefaced by useful maps; the index at the back contains a valuable list of Irish Victorian architects and their works. The entries cover all types of buildings, large and small, and reveal an encyclopaedic knowledge of Ireland.