1901 – Dublin Bread Company, O’Connell St., Dublin
A massively overscaled building on Lower O’Connell Street, and a landmark for only 15 years.
A massively overscaled building on Lower O’Connell Street, and a landmark for only 15 years.
Photographed from Nelson’s Pillar after the Easter Rising, when all that remained was the front facade.
A long drawn out project, the Parnell Monument was designed by Dublin-born American sculptor Augustus Saint Gaudens with the assistance of two architects –
With its giant Ionic order, this former theatre (the Pillar Picture House) is now sadly in use as a fast food restaurant.
Constructed as a cinema after the destruction of the area in the 1916 Easter Rising.
On the corner of O’Connell Street and Middle Abbey Street, Manfield Chambers is a commercial premises with a branch of Clarks on the ground level and various offices above.
Rebuilt after this section of O’Connell Street and North Earl Street were destroyed in fires during the Easter Rising of 1916.
Supposedly built with girders salvaged from the wreck of the GPO, No.3 is part of a cohesive terrace of red brick buildings with a continuous cornice.
Designed by Ralph H. Byrne of W.H. Byrne & Son. Built on the corner of O’Connell Street and Abbey Street to replace a bank building destroyed in the Easter Rising of 1916.
Constructed after this portion of O’Connell Street was destroyed in the Easter Rising of 1916. An austere stone finish with shallow relief decoration masks a steel structure.