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    • 14 Henrietta Street: Georgian Beginnings, 1750-1800 

      Hayes, Melanie (Dublin City Council Culture Company, 2021)
      14 Henrietta Street was built in the late 1740s, during a boom in Dublin’s building industry that followed a decade of war and economic hardship at home and abroad. It formed part of a row of three houses which Luke ...
    • The Best Address in Town: Henrietta Street, Dublin and its first residents (1720-1780) 

      Hayes, Melanie (Four Courts Press, 2020)
      In the early years of the 1730s two major building projects were taking place in Dublin city, one in the public sphere, the other in the domestic arena. Both stood as very visible manifestations of the wealth and ambition ...
    • Four wooden ceilings from the Torrijos Palace, Toledo 

      Mc Sweeney, Anna (2023)
      Prior to the demolition around 1917 of the late fifteenth-century palace built in Torrijos, near Toledo, for Gutierre de Cárdenas, a prominent soldier and courtier, and his wife, Teresa Enríquez, four intricate painted ...
    • An Irish Palladian in England, the case of Sir Edward Lovett Pearce 

      Hayes, Melanie (Four Courts Press, 2021)
      This article charts Sir Edward Lovett Pearce’s complex connections from country estates in Norfolk, courtly circles in Surrey and fashionable enclaves in Mayfair to the newly-built streets of Dublin’s North City. ...