Numbers 183 to 187 Pearse Street look like part of a paper-doll townscape – a little uniform set piece popped...
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Shop – 1930s
Available now: A self-guided walking tour around some of Dublin’s 1930s highlights.
St Andrew’s National School, 114-6 Pearse Street, Dublin 2+
The former St. Andrew’s National School faces the open end of Pearse Square, with the traffic along Pearse Street running...
Huguenot Cemetery, Merrion Row, Dublin 2+
One of the most poetic places in Dublin, the Huguenot cemetery sits behind railings on Merrion Row, just off the...
Oriel window, Westmoreland Street, Dublin 2+
One of Westmoreland Street’s unique moments is the stretch of former Educational Building Society buildings at numbers 30-34 on the...
British and Irish Steam Packet Company, Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin 2+
The quay-facing part of the British and Irish Steam Packet Company Building presents the building as one that’s quite tall...
Ivy, 41-43 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2+
The northeastern corner of St Stephen’s Green might be the best one. It’s got a steady flow of pedestrians, but...
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...
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...
Handrails, 4 Kildare Street, Dublin 2+
The variety in the buildings housing the National Library on Kildare Street* is quite charming: the grand spaces of the main...
Granite paving, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2+
It’s not terribly unusual to see letters carved into paving: every patch of wet concrete is at risk of commemorating...