Land Surveying in Ireland, 1690–1830

Mapping, measurement and metropolis

How land surveyors shaped eighteenth-century Dublin

Finnian Ó Cionnaith

This comprehensively illustrated book charts the exceptional impact that a small group of land surveyors had on the development of Dublin city during the eighte…

Exercise of authority

Surveyor Thomas Owen and the paving, cleansing and lighting of Georgian Dublin

Finnian Ó Cionnaith

The Dublin Paving Board (founded 1744) was a controversial organization that attempted to bring order to Dublin’s streets during the late eighteenth century. Gr…

The building site in eighteenth-century Ireland

by Arthur Gibney

Livia Hurley & Edward McParland, editors

This study by the late Arthur Gibney takes you among labourers, craftspeople, contractors, builders and designers as they populate the building sites of eightee…

The early residential buildings of Trinity College Dublin

Architecture, financing, people

R.A. Somerville

This book contains a history of the early buildings of Trinity College, from the Elizabethan Quadrangle up to the residential ranges of the early eighteenth cen…

The Museum Building of Trinity College Dublin

A model of Victorian craftsmanship

Christine Casey & Patrick N. Wyse Jackson, editors

This volume addresses the most influential Victorian building in the city of Dublin and explores the new standard which it set in the use of Irish decorative st…

Medieval Irish buildings, 1100–1600

Tadhg O'Keeffe

The Irish landscape is dotted with thousands of medieval buildings, most of them in ruins. They are an invaluable resource, individually and collectively, for m…

Medieval ecclesiastical buildings in Ireland, 1789–1915

Building on the past

Niamh NicGhabhann

This is the first full-length study of the perception and treatment of Gothic architecture in Ireland in the period between 1789 and 1915. It considers three ma…