Unusual Dinner Venue

Restaurant Na Mara in Dun Laoghaire

The great hall in City Hall

The GPO main hall

The old power station main hall at Poolbeg
http://www.irish-architecture.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/ringsend_irishtown/poolbeg/pigeonhouse.html

The Arsenal, Phoenix Park

The Papal Cross, Phoenix Park

Pavement of James Joyce Bridge

@kefu wrote:

The great hall in City Hall

Been done before, Kefu. Richview Ball 2005. Sorry. 🙂
Apologies for the quality, but it’s an ‘enhanced’ version of a too-dark pic.
They’re planners’ heads in the foreground, architects to the rear. (As it should be! :rolleyes: )

Some part of the power station at Ringsend so you can see Donnymount strand & Bay with the sun going down.

St Marys Abbey Chapter House
http://www.irish-architecture.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/northcity/capel_street/marys_abbey/stmarya.htm

Carpark, Marys Abbey
http://www.irish-architecture.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/northcity/capel_street/marys_abbey/carpark.html

Roberts House, Dublin Zoo
http://www.irish-architecture.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/northcity/phoenix_park/zoo/roberts_house.html

Royal Hibernian Military School Chapel
http://www.irish-architecture.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/northcity/phoenix_park/royal_hibernian_military_school_chapel.html

Yes the Roberts House in the Zoo would be a wonderful location – even if at nighttime the top-lit aspect would disappear.
It seems money is not a problem here 😉 so a lighting specialist could do wonders for the space.

As for City Hall’s rotunda, those eagled-eyed amongst you will notice that in RTÉ News’s recent promo for their services, you will note that Mary Wilson Legal Affairs Editor is in fact power-marching across the interior of City Hall and not the Four Courts as as far as I know they could not get access to shoot it 🙂
Very clever.

What about the circular bar on top of the Guinness Store house, best views in the city.

What about the Wonderful Barn, Leixlip?
Recently added to the World Monuments Watch 100 Endangered Sites list, its current condition and the proposals for it would certainly seem to qualify it for fitting the brief of ” ‘encapsulates’ the spirit of Ireland” 😮
You can see it now before its context is changed totally –

http://www.wmf.org/html/programs/resources/sitepages/ireland_wonderful_barn.html

😀

H

Interesting point about RTE, Graham. I hadn’t noticed that.
The reason for that is because any type of recording equipment is illegal within the doors or gates of any court building in Ireland. That’s why you always see the unseemly scrum of photographers hanging around at the exits waiting to pounce.

Indeed it is the case with photographers, but not in general as RTÉ have used the Four Courts Rotunda in the past, notably only last year for a Prime Time Investigates where some spectacular overhead shots were attained via the use of one of these 🙂

What a spectacular, if somwhat draughty place to have a meal.