In a society where two pennies would look down on a ha’penny, the Henrietta St tenements were considered quite ‘posh’, writes Danielle O’Donovan
In 1909 one of the founders of the Irish Georgian Society, Ephraim MacDowell Cosgrave, took his camera around Dublin to capture the city’s finest eighteenth-century architecture. On Henrietta Street, arguably Dublin’s finest street, his camera took in not only the vast brick facades and cast iron railings, but also hundreds of children who looked on, residents of the tenements these premier townhouses had become. Just over one hundred years on, thanks to valiant restoration efforts, both public and private, Henrietta St has been conserved and revived, to almost her eighteenth-century splendour.
Using satellite imaging, photographer David Thomas Smith echoes the Arecibo radio message transmitted into deep space forty-five years ago, writes Stephanie McBride
‘I knew from the age of three what I wanted to do,‚’ sculptor Carolyn Mulholland tells Brian McAvera
The historically important Doneraile Court in north Cork has opened its doors to the public following an extensive conservation and renovation project, writes Peter Pearson
