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Irish architecture history https://www.archiseek.com since 1996, football fan (all strains), drinker of tea (all strains), likes beer (all strains). Also likes strainers.
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Brandon Daily Sun, Aug 26, 1932, reports on 100ft high statue for Dun Laoghaire. Was it to be a larger version of this?

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November 11, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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1978 - Design for St. James Hospital, Dublin
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1978 - Design for St. James Hospital, Dublin - Architecture of Dublin City - Archiseek.com
Architect: Moloney O’Beirne Guy & Hutchinson Locke and Monk The history of St James’s stretches back to 1703 when an Act was passed to build a workhouse
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November 11, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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2025 - Windjammer Hotel Proposal, Ballsbridge, Dublin
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2025 - Windjammer Hotel Proposal, Ballsbridge, Dublin - Architecture of Dublin City, Unbuilt Ireland - Archiseek.com
Architect: Office of David O’Shea Dublin City Council refused planning permission for this six-storey 24-bedroom boutique hotel on a site at Shelbourne
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November 9, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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1974 - Offices, Shelbourne Road, Dublin
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1974 - Offices, Shelbourne Road, Dublin - Architecture of Dublin City, Lost Buildings of Ireland - Archiseek.com
Architect: Stephenson Gibney & Associateshttps://www.archiseek.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_dashboard&_wpnonce=2fa225e53a Speculative office
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November 9, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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1949 - College of Further Education, Ballsbridge, Dublin
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1949 - College of Further Education, Ballsbridge, Dublin - Architecture of Dublin City - Archiseek.com
Architect: Donnelly & Martin Typical of the softer modernism used in educational buildings across Ireland, north and south, this was constructed as a
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November 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Dublin, Then and Then. Busaras being the difference. #dublin
No Busaras Woth Busaras
November 8, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Postcard of the Four Courts, Dublin (after restoration as the publisher is so keen to point out) - note the scaffolding between the columns. #Dublin
November 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Nice stylistic illustration of the Custom House Dublin #dublin
Custom House Dublin
November 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Roecrete advertisement using the disastrous Atlantic Hotel, Kilkee #Ireland

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November 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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1972 - Dublin Corporation Flats, Islandbridge, Dublin
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1972 - Dublin Corporation Flats, Islandbridge, Dublin - Architecture of Dublin City - Archiseek.com
Architect: J McDaid, Dublin City Architects Department Dublin Corporation, now City Council, had several models of public housing. This version, of five
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November 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Was carrying the camera as opposed to phone today, and took the opportunity to take photos of the IKOY Building

Older photos at www.ikoy.com/project/ikoy... #winnipeg #winnipegarchitecture
IKOY Office Building IKOY Office Building IKOY Office Building
November 2, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Visited the Canadian Museum of Human Rights, in Winnipeg, for first time in years. The building is still the star, as i wrote back in 2015 for the RIBA Journal. Design and materials have held up so well, still looks fresh and fantastic #winnipeg #winnipegarchitecture

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Interior ramps of CMFHR
November 2, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Sprawling beside the pyramids of Giza, it is the largest museum in the world dedicated to a single civilization
Irish architect behind Egyptian Museum 'very excited'
More than two decades in the making and, finally, one of the world's largest and most anticipated museums has opened its doors tonight.
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November 1, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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1911 - Unbuilt Chapel, Church of Ireland Training College, Dublin
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1911 - Unbuilt Chapel, Church of Ireland Training College, Dublin - Architecture of Dublin City, Unbuilt Ireland - Archiseek.com
Architect: Thomas Manly Deane Design for small chapel for the Church of Ireland Training College, which was sited in Kildare Place in Dublin. The college
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November 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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1903 - Central Library, Waterford, Co. Waterford
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1903 - Central Library, Waterford, Co. Waterford - Architecture of Waterford - Archiseek.com
Architect: Albert E. Murray Designs for a new free library, funded by Andrew Carnegie, were invited in March 1902. This was the first of Ireland's many
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October 30, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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1967 - Queen's Playing Fields, Malone, Belfast
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1967 - Queen's Playing Fields, Malone, Belfast - Architecture of Belfast, Lost Buildings of Ireland - Archiseek.com
Architect: Munce & Kennedy Pavilions for Queen's playing fields with a distinctive water tower and roofline – the roof being supported in the centre
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October 28, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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1899 - National Bank, Rathmines, Dublin
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1899 - National Bank, Rathmines, Dublin - Architecture of Dublin City - Archiseek.com
Architect: Frederick A. Butler A fine red sandstone bank branch for the National Bank. The bank, started by Daniel O’Connell was later absorbed into the
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October 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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1938 - Nurses Home, Galway
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1938 - Nurses Home, Galway - Architecture of Galway City - Archiseek.com
Architect: T.J. Cullen An impressive Art Deco building built as part of a much larger scheme for Galway Hospital. A lovely example of regionalism in an
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October 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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‘Dictator-for-life vibes’: our architecture critic on Trump’s bulletproof ballroom bling
He has already turned the Oval Office into a wrestler’s changing room. Now the president is building a place so gilded Nero would feel at home. Why did he pick an architect whose speciality is Catholi...
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October 23, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Temporary computer building Trinity 1969 #dublin
Temporary computer building Trinity
October 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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1967 ad for PJ Hegarty featuring O’Flaherty House, Summercove, Kinsale by Robin Walker #cork
October 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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1972 - Dublin Sport Hotel, Kilternan, Co. Dublin
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1972 - Dublin Sport Hotel, Kilternan, Co. Dublin - Architecture of Dun Laoghaire Rathdown, Lost Buildings of Ireland - Archiseek.com
The development began life as Opperman’s Country Club, opened by hotelier brothers Johnny and Willie Opperman in 1972. It's second owner was Pat Quinn,
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October 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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1960 - Courtyard House, Delvin, Co. Westmeath
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1960 - Courtyard House, Delvin, Co. Westmeath - Architecture of Westmeath - Archiseek.com
Architect: David Duignan Modern u-plan house constructed around an internal courtyard. Starkly modern for its time in rural Ireland, the house has large
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October 22, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Just received in the mail, a collection of large format colour negatives taken in Dublin in 1994 by a German photographer, Ulrich Ahrensmeier. Liberty Hall, RHK, Lisneys, Bank of Ireland HQ, Waterways Visitor Centre, Busaras, Beckett Theatre.
Now to find a transparency scanner.
October 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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1972 construction materials adverts - the scary nun trope or trying to look cool but end up looking slightly dazed concept #Ireland #1972
October 22, 2025 at 2:50 PM