1760 – Doorways of Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin
Named after the Fitzwilliam family, Earls of Merrion, who developed this land as part of their great estate on the southside of the Liffey.
Named after the Fitzwilliam family, Earls of Merrion, who developed this land as part of their great estate on the southside of the Liffey.
Twelve early 19th century Georgian houses that were demolished by the ESB in the early 1960s to build a new headquarters by Stephenson Gibney &
Unsuccessful entry for the National University’s proposed Headquarters at the corner of Merrion Square, Upper Mount Street and Fitzwilliam Street.
A series of illustrations for the National University’s proposed Headquarters at the corner of Merrion Square,
Fitzwilliam Street once the longest expanse of intact Georgian architecture anywhere in the world was destroyed in the 1960s when the ESB a supposedly responsible semi-state body wantonly demolished twelve of the houses.
In 2009 ESB selected a shortlist of ten architectural submissions to proceed to the detailed design stage of the competition for the redevelopment of ESB’s Head Office at Lower Fitzwilliam Street,
This entry was a joint entry of Gilroy McMahon with Henry J Lyons and Partners in an international architectural competition to replace the ESB headquarters on Fitzwilliam St.,
An interview by John Mason, from Trinity News, later republished by the Irish Georgian Society in a bulletin early 1962. Sir John Summerson (25 November 1904 – 10 November 1992) was considered one of the leading British architectural historians of the 20th century.