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 Scenes from DUBLIN
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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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