1701 – Marsh’s Library, St Patrick’s Close, Dublin
Designed by Sir William Robinson who was also the architect of the Royal Hospital Kilmainham and the Surveyor General from 1670-1700,
Designed by Sir William Robinson who was also the architect of the Royal Hospital Kilmainham and the Surveyor General from 1670-1700,
The old Library of Trinity College (old because of a newer neighbour built by Ahrends Burton Koralak) is Thomas Burgh’s masterpiece.
Fabulous Library building on an awkward sloping corner site by Thomas Cooley, the architect of Dublin’s City Hall which was started just two years earlier.
Former markethouse converted into a public library. Quite a plain two storey building of three bays,
Designed by Frederick Darley in 1827, the Library building of the Kings Inns replaced three of the oldest houses on the street.
A fine symmetrical building by William Deane Butler. It was originally built as a market house and the ground floor is arcaded,
Designed in 1839, and opened in 1851, the library was intended to contain the treasures of a nearby cloister.
Designed by Lanyon, Lynn and Lanyon as a small Gothic Revival church in 1851,
Destroyed during air raids during the Second World War.
From The Building News, January 3, 1862: Three or four months ago the Prince of Wales publicly opened the new JL Library which Mr.