€6m Gate Theatre development opens
The actors and director of a new production of Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing gathered at the Gate Theatre yesterday morning to start rehearsals in the new rehearsal room of the Dublin theatre. The €6...
View Article1753 – Parnell Square, Dublin
Originally Rutland Square, which referred to the park in the centre and the second earliest of Dublin’s squares. The surrounding streets were known as Charlemont Row, Cavendish Row and Palace Row and...
View Article1748 – Rotunda Hospital, Parnell Square, Dublin
Architect: Richard Cassels The Rotunda Hospital officially the Dublin Lying-in Hospital was the first maternity hospital in Britain or Ireland and was at one time the largest in the world. Really it is...
View Article1763 – Charlemont House, Parnell Square, Dublin
Architect: Sir William Chambers Lord Charlemont had met and befriended Sir William Chambers in Italy while Chambers was studying roman antiquities and Charlemont was on a collecting trip. Years later...
View Article1863 – Findlater’s Church, Parnell Square, Dublin
Architect: Andrew Heiton In the 1860s the growth of the Prebsyterian congregation and a substantial increase in rent on the Mary’s Abbey property made it desirable for the congregation to seek new...
View Article1966 – Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square, Dublin
Architect: Dáithí Hanly The Garden of Remembrance (Irish: An Gairdín Cuimhneacháin) is a memorial garden in Dublin dedicated to the memory of “all those who gave their lives in the cause of Irish...
View Article1762 – Design for Hall Chimney-piece, Charlemont House, Dublin
Architect: Sir William Chambers Lord Charlemont had met and befriended Sir William Chambers in Italy while Chambers was studying roman antiquities and Charlemont was on a collecting trip.
View Article1895 – Auxiliary Hospital, Rotunda Hospital, Parnell Square, Dublin
Architect: Albert E. Murray Constructed as the Auxiliary hospital, later the Thomas Plunket Cairnes wing. The architect Albert E.
View Article1882 – Exhibition of Arts & Manufactures, Rotunda Gardens, Dublin
Architect: George C. Ashlin A smaller exhibition held in the gardens of the Rotunda Hospital. The manufactured good were mainly of the cottage craft industry while the artistic works exhibited were...
View Article1895 – Interiors, No. 4 Parnell Square, Dublin
Architect: William H. Byrne Taken over by the Dublin Catholic Cemeteries Committee in 1894, they had moved in by mid 1895,
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