Research Project: Georgian Dublin: Architecture and the Built Environment
The School of Art History & Cultural Policy has completed two digitized image databases as part of the Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA) project.
Drawn from its extensive collection of 35mm slides, the digital collections focus on Dublin's eighteenth-century domestic, civic and ecclesiastical architecture.
- The Civic and Ecclesiastical Architecture of Georgian Dublin Collection comprises examples of the civic and ecclesiastical architecture of eighteenth-century Dublin, including the former Parliament House at College Green, the Four Courts and Custom House, St George, Hardwicke Place, and St Catherine, Mary Street.
- The Domestic Architecture of Georgian Dublin Collection focuses on the city's eighteenth-century domestic architecture, and extends to images of important individual houses, significant decorative interiors, and general views of Dublin?s Georgian fabric.
As a record of buildings and interiors photographed over a period of approximately 25 years, this collection is intended to represent an important resource for research devoted to architecture and the built environment, as well as broader interdisciplinary studies related to political, economic and cultural geographies.
The Georgian Dublin: Architecture and the Built Environment project was developed and coordinated by Dr Conor Lucey. The research was funded through the Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA), a component of the UCD Humanities Institute of Ireland, which is funded by the Higher Education Authority (HEA) through the Programme for Research in Third-Level Institutions (PRTLI). See http://ivrla.ucd.ie for further details.
