Designed by the City Architect C.J. McCarthy and completed in 1904, the Bull Alley Corporation housing scheme was designed to complement the adjacent Iveagh Trust Scheme.
This was the single largest piece of urban renewal in Edwardian Dublin, and was commissioned by the Earl of Iveagh to clean up the slums that surrounded St Patrick’s Cathedral of which he was funding the restoration.
Part of the Iveagh Trust scheme which included housing, education, and social elements – the most significant urban renewal scheme undertaken in Dublin in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The most dominant building on Bull Alley is the Vocational Education College designed in a Flemish Renaissance style by L.A.
