The Best Address in Town: Henrietta Street, Dublin and its first residents (1720-1780)
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Hayes, M., The Best Address in Town: Henrietta Street, Dublin and its first residents (1720-1780), Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2020, 312 ppDownload Item:
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Abstract:
In the early years of the 1730s two major building projects were taking place in Dublin city, one in
the public sphere, the other in the domestic arena. Both stood as very visible manifestations of the wealth and
ambition of Ireland’s governing elite. Both looked to the latest imported architectural models and fashionable
tastes of London’s beau monde and both involved the same close knit group of architects, builders,
developers and occupants. The first of these was Edward Lovett Pearce’s Parliament House at College
Green, a pioneering and virtuoso exercise in neo-Palladian design, the other, Luke Gardiner’s similarly
pioneering domestic development at Henrietta Street – palatial scale pieds-à-terre built to house the most
influential power brokers from church, military and state. These lofty dwelling houses were more than bricks
and mortar, more than the judicious disposition of rooms, a finely finished facade or an elegant interior: they
served as symbols of success and social status, as spaces for living in and the settings for life. Looking
behind the red-brick facades of these once grand Georgian town houses at the people who populated these
spaces we can still catch a glimpse of life when Henrietta Street was the best address in town.
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Author: Hayes, Melanie
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Creative Arts Practice , Making Ireland , Architecture History , Biography , Built Environment , DUBLIN , Dublin's History & Archaeology , Early Modern Britain and Ireland , Early Modern Irish and British History , Early modern Anglo-Irish relations , European Architecture , History of Architecture , History of Dublin , Irish History , Irish and British History 1500-1800 , Irish biography , Irish urban history, Dublin and Cork , cultural biographyISBN:
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