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The Buildings of Ireland - Dublin
Christine Casey
(2005)
Hardcover - 800 pages
Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300109237
Synopsis by publisher:
A uniquely comprehensive guide to the buildings of central Dublin. Churches, public buildings and streets are described for every district, each full of new discoveries and lively detail. The entire area within the canals is covered, along with the Phoenix Park. The grand eighteenth-century set-pieces - Custom House, Four Courts, Bank of Ireland - are offset by a graceful Georgian cityscape, much of which remains intact. The rewardingly complex buildings of Trinity College and Dublin Castle are explored in full, and the astonishingly rich and varied house interiors are also described, many for the first time. Civic and commercial Victorian architecture features in strength, together with the highs and lows of post-war building, which culminate in some sensitive and resourceful buildings by a new generation of Irish architects. Two fine Gothic cathedrals remain from the medieval city, whose history is traced in a scholarly introduction that runs down to the present day. Sculpture, monuments and public art - the greatest such concentration in all Ireland - also feature in strength.
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Living in Dublin
Robert O'Byrne
(2003)
Hardcover - 208 pages
Thames and Hudson
ISBN: 0500511322
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
With its literary history and Georgian architecture, its modern art galleries and classic pubs, Dublin has become both an international tourist destination and a place for stylish, sophisticated lifestyles. This book explores a city that both embodies urban life in a previous century and represents European style in the new millennium. Dublin's social tradition is represented in the hotels and parks, shops and racecourses - all alive with the resurgent excitement of the city. The book also explores the city's relationship with the literary life, from Jonathan Swift to Roddy Doyle - not to mention Shaw, Yeats, Wilde, Joyce, O'Casey and Beckett. It is completed by listings of places to stay and eat and a guide to the sights of the city.
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Landscape Design in Eighteenth-Century Ireland: Mixing Foreign Trees with the Natives
Finola O'Kane
(2005)
Hardcover - 288 pages
Cork University Press
ISBN: 185918362X
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
Within the walls of the demesne, the Anglo-Irish ascendancy constructed their vision of an Irish Utopia. Ideal landscapes were designed and planted out with standard temperate trees and newly introduced exotics from the Americas. Ideal cottages were built, paternalistic estate management structures developed, and complex planning and design theories indulged. Masques and plays, morally suspect in the strict Protestant ethos of the time, flourished within the enclosed world of the demesne. Robert Molesworth's radical Whig landscape influenced both Jonathan Swift and the Earl of Shaftesbury's political and aesthetic ideas. The women of Carton and Castletown employed the theatrical tradition of French gardens to explore controversial lifestyles. This book seeks to explore how and why the landscapes were designed, who designed them, who used them, and for what purpose. Detailed studies of selected and connected gardens were used to explore these questions, and the smaller compass is hopefully countered by a more detailed context. Some of the gardens recreated retain much valuable evidence on the ground, while others have been pieced together from documentary sources, in particular the copious personal letters which survive. The existing gardens themselves are constantly in flux, as the source material grows and dies, or is more commonly axed by development. The disciplines of art history, architecture, engineering and planning are hauled informally together, to examine the role these disciplines have played, and should play, in creating and protecting the designed environment.
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