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6a. Dublin City Historic Buildings - The architecture of the Four Courts, GPO and Bank of Ireland
The Four Courts on the banks of the River Liffey are still used for its original function. The patched up columns are the result of damage incurred in the 1922 civil war.
The General Post Office in O'Connell Street. The GPO was the centre of the 1916 rising. It was here that James Connolly and Padraig Pearse barricaded themselves inside and issued the Republic proclamation. The GPO, with its imposing ionic portico, was one of the last great buildings of the Georgian boom, but look for the bullet holes in the columns!
The Bank of Ireland near College Green, was the original parliament building. It was the first great Palladian style building in Dublin, designed by Sir Edward Lovett Pearce and built between 1729-1739. Its considered one of the best, perhaps the best? architectural gem of its period, of Dublin City. |
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