By Lucille Ellis Ennis in the early nineteenth century was characterised by crooked, narrow streets flanked by buildings of post-medieval and eighteenth-century origin. One of the first formal streets developed when in c. 1823 William Greene (d. 1842), a local attorney, built a sizeable house of rough-cut limestone on land owned by Bindon Blood (1775–1855) … Read more
THE FIRST MONUMENT ERECTED ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD TO THE VICTOR OF TRAFALGAR By Dennis Kennedy A water-colour sketch of the Nelson Arch near Castletownshend, Co. Cork, painted by the man who designed and built the arch in 1805, has resurfaced after 200 years. The arch, destroyed half a century ago, was the first monument … Read more
TRACING THE ROUTE TAKEN BY RICHARD II DURING HIS CAMPAIGN AGAINST ART MAC MURROUGH IN 1394 By Samuel Kinirons King Richard II (1377–99) was the first English monarch to set foot in Ireland since King John. Indeed, Richard visited Ireland twice, first in 1394–5 and again in 1399, shortly before the usurpation of his crown … Read more
Sir,—I question the attribution to the photograph of the New Zealand prime minister ‘outside 10 Downing Street’ (HI 23.6, Nov./Dec. 2015, p. 35). Wherever it is, it is not 10 Downing Street. I am familiar with the building and there are no steps, nor were there ever any.—Yours etc., W. PETER DUNNE The caption, along … Read more
Sir,—I am writing to inform your readers that on 2–4 June 2016 the European Architectural History Network will hold its fourth inter-national meeting in Dublin Castle. EAHN is Europe’s largest professional organisation for architectural historians. The meeting will include keynote addresses by Sibel Bozdogan, an eminent historian of modern Turkish architecture, and Roger Stalley, as … Read more