It seems like the only real way to see the Milltown transformer station is from above. Unless you’re with the...
1930s
Shop – 1930s
Available now: A self-guided walking tour around some of Dublin’s 1930s highlights.
Drumcondra Library, Millmount Avenue, Dublin 9+
The public library in Drumcondra is a freestanding building, surrounded by a lawn and facing onto the southern end of...
Ghost sign (Lennox Chemicals), 3/4 Leinster Street South, Dublin 2+
Among Dublin’s many wonderful ghost signs, the ones from the former Lennox Chemicals premises on South Leinster Street might be...
On Seeing Only Totally New Things, Gavin Murphy+
Dublin’s IMCO complex was located on Merrion Road for about 35 years. It was built in phases, though the most...
Former Player Wills Factory, South Circular Road, Dublin 8+
Built in 1935 as a factory for Player Wills tobacco, the building remained in use until European restructuring moved manufacturing...
Rathmines Post Office, Upper Rathmines Road, Dublin 6+
On the lower edge of Rathmines Road Upper, the post office maintains a neat, composed presence on the street. It...
Lamp post, College Street, Dublin 2+
Between developments in lighting technologies and changes in street furniture models, Dublin’s streets have gone through many lamp post styles....
Former Classic Cinema, Rathfarnham Road+
The (first) former Classic Cinema in Terenure isn’t terribly attractive when you take it as a whole, but it’s memorable...
Brick, Sandwith Street Upper, Dublin 2+
One of Dublin’s buildings with the greatest tactile appeal is tucked up against the railway bridge on Upper Sandwith Street....
Former Rialto cinema, South Circular Road, Dublin 8+
The 1600-seat cinema at Rialto opened in November 1936, with the Irish premiere of Everything is Rhythm as its first feature....