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Signature of John Millington Synge
From the archives of An Chomhairle Leabharlanna.
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Signature of John Millington Synge
Signature of J.M. Synge on the reconveyance of Mortgage document to Marcus Lingard, 7th April 1908. 53/54 Upper Mount Street. From the archives of An Chomhairle Leabharlanna.
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Telegram to Christina Keogh
Telegram to Christina Keogh, Librarian at the Irish Central Library for Students (ICLS) regarding proposed new premises. At this time, the ICLS was located on Merrion Square but it moved in January 1932 when the building at 53 Upper Mount Street was leased. From the archives of An Chomhairle Leabharlanna.
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St Stephen's Church
View of St Stephen's Church ('Pepper Canister') from Upper Mount Street. Photo: 2013
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View of Bachelors Walk and the Ha'penny Bridge, Dublin
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Letter from Sean O'Casey to Christina Keogh
Letter from Sean O'Casey to Christina Keogh, Librarian at the Irish Central Library for Students. 15th July, 1937. From the archives of An Chomhairle Leabharlanna.
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Reconveyance of Mortgage document
Reconveyance of Mortgage document, John M. Synge to Marcus Lingard, 7th April 1908. 53/54 Upper Mount Street. From the archives of An Chomhairle Leabharlanna.
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Entrance to No. 54 Upper Mount St
Photo: 2013
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Entrance to No. 53 Upper Mount St
Photo: 2013
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Georgain boot scraper
Boot scraper outside the front entrance of a Georgian building, Dublin.
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Georgian housing
View of Merrion Square from Upper Mount Street/.
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Professor Alistair Rowan, Author of the Architecture Feature
Alistair Rowan was born in Belfast in 1938. He studied architecture at Edinburgh College of Art, took a Ph.D in architectural history in the University of Cambridge and undertook post-doctoral research, on late Baroque architecture in the Veneto, at the University of Padua, Italy, in 1965 and 1966. He later worked as a journalist in London with Country Life magazine and was appointed Lecturer in the Department of Fine Art in the University of Edinburgh in 1967. In 1977 he became the first professor in the History of Art in University College Dublin, a post that he held until 1990 when he became Principal of Edinburgh College of Art. He is a founder member of the Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, was Chairman of the Irish Architectural Archive from 1982 to 1986, and was elected Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford for 1987/88. In 1987 he made a series of programmes with RTE on the history of Irish church buildings – ‘God’s Houses’. He has served on the Historic Buildings Council for Scotland from 1986 to 1994 and has been President of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain and of the Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland. In December 2000 he retired from Edinburgh College of Art and accepted an invitation from University College Cork to become its Professor of the History of Art and to set up an undergraduate courses in the College. He retired from UCC in September 2003. He is an authority of the architecture of Robert Adam and is an author and editor of the Yale University Press Buildings of Ireland series.
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Door knocker at 54 Upper Mount St
Photo: 2013
Door knocker at 54 Upper Mount St -
Plaque on 54 Upper Mount Street
Photo: 2013
Plaque on 54 Upper Mount Street -
An Chomhairle Leabharlanna plaque, 53 Upper Mount Street
Photo: 2013
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An Chomhairle Leabharlanna plaque, 53 Upper Mount Street -
Box window, 53 Upper Mount Street
Photo: 2013
Box window, 53 Upper Mount Street -
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Spiral Stairs, top 53 Upper Mount Street
The servant quarters were accessed via a small backstairs that was separate from the formal areas of the house. They lead to the very top of the house where the smallest rooms were located. Photo: 2013
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Carnegie Meeting Room, 53 Upper Mount Street
This ground floor room would originally have been used as a formal reception room. Photo: 2013.
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Carnegie Meeting Room, 53 Upper Mount Street -
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Entrance hallway, 53 Upper Mount Street
Photo: 2013
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Entrance to No. 54 Upper Mount St
Photo: 2013
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Georgain doors, Dublin
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Front of 53 & 54 Upper Mount Street
Photo: 2013
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Staircase, 53 Upper Mount Street
Photo: 2013
Staircase, 53 Upper Mount Street -
Ellen, Countess of Desart
Ellen, 4th Countess of Desart
Kilkenny County Library
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Fireplace panel: figure detail
Detail of fireplace in 53 Upper Mount Street.
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Fireplace panel: floral detail
Fireplace panel detail at 53 Upper Mount Street.
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Exterior of Rathmines Library
Exterior of Rathmines Library
By kind permission of Dublin City Libraries
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Map Of Fingal
Map Of Fingal
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Map Of Fingal