Ailesbury Court is a bit of a mystery. It’s definitely a three-storey building clad in red brick. It’s at the...
Lisa Cassidy
Shop – 1930s
Available now: A self-guided walking tour around some of Dublin’s 1930s highlights.
Tiles, Cork Street, Dublin 8+
If you wander through Dublin’s remaining pockets of industrial buildings, it starts to seem like every factory and warehouse that...
Pharmacy, George’s Street Upper, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin+
O’Mahony & Ennis Pharmacy, sitting at the junction with Marine Road, has a symmetrical shopfront with a recessed entrance. The...
Balcony, Department of Industry and Commerce, 23 Kildare Street, Dublin 2+
23 Kildare Street was built for the Department of Industry and Commerce, which now the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and...
Clock, 123 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2+
Below a keystone depicting a distracted-looking Hippocrates, the entrance to the College of Surgeons at 123 St Stephen’s Green has...
House, Richmond Place, Rathmines, Dublin 6+
Boyd Cody Architects’ corner house on Richmond Place was built on the site of a cottage, at the end of...
Shopfront, 4 South Leinster Street, Dublin 2+
The Science Gallery opened MAKESHOP on South Leinster Street this month – a pop-up shop and workshop space, open until...
Jesus statue, O’Connell Street taxi rank, Dublin 1+
At the northern end of the taxi rank on O’Connell Street, a glass case holds a statue of Jesus with...
Signage, 54 George’s Street Lower, Dun Laoghaire+
Corr’s looks like it stood still while Dun Laoghaire passed through decades of change. The signboard is concave, with horizontal...
Gallery, Royal Hibernian Academy, Ely Place, Dublin 2+
The Royal Hibernian Academy’s gallery underwent substantial reorganisation in 2008, transforming much of what we see from the street. The...