Nice little booklet by the Follies trust on the Malone Mausoleum Westmeath by James Wyatt (of Wyatt window fame). Picked up for €5, published 2024.

Dancers in Seville Martin Munkacsi, 1930

"Here come the 'Goitse Bomaite's'. Shíl siad go raibh muid ag rá: An bhfuil do thóin leat? Got your bum with ye?!" 😂🍑 👀 Ar Son an Cúise 🚗 Déardaoin 🕗 20:00

Perugia versus Assisi 1934 📷Fritz Henle

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death, taxes & Antrim losing in the Ulster football Championship..

St Pauls looking great in the brief sunshine between showers. Some more info via @archiseek.bsky.social www.archiseek.com/1837-st-paul...

€20 soft copy in Oxfam Parliament Street if anybody is looking forca copy

1920s photo of students at the German art school Bauhaus. Just look at these cool frauleins, at least half of them wearing trousers, have short hair and are designing wild amazing things. In my book they're cooler and more rebellious than any flapper with their short dresses.

Donegal/Ulster people please give us a share to get the word out! @guylejeune.eurosky.social @inishview.bsky.social @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social @luiseach.bsky.social @colmcille.bsky.social @littleacornsbooks.bsky.social @thepigsback.bsky.social @thomaspringle.bsky.social @anfearbui.bsky.social

1872 - St. Matthews Church of Ireland, Shankill Road, Belfast www.archiseek.com/1872-st-matt... #belfast

The final online talk before I take a year off... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-surpri...

The extraordinary brickwork of Our Daughters of the Sacred Heart atop a green hill in Kensington. Designed by architects #hennesseyhennessy as extensions (1920’s?) at each end of the pre-existing convent, the virtuoso arches & circles form beautiful open porches #sydneyarchitecture

Current night time reading. I usually have a few books on the go. Really enjoying these two.

Nice little booklet from 1979 picked up today. Has an article by Michael Scott.

New tactic for traffic disruption at Wood Quay/Four Courts.

Today's Object of Unexpected Interest #dublin 1927 - The Plaza, Middle Abbey St., Dublin www.archiseek.com/1927-plaza-m...

Architect Creates App to Show Which Pub Gardens are Sunny – Using Shadow Simulations From Buildings

I’ll never understand why people buy dogs from breeders when growing your own is free and far more rewarding.

Bought last week. Detail books, very informative, tend to be between €60-€120 each. I got these for €13 total. They will be used in the office.

#Eggs at #Easter relate to ideas of new life in the #Spring. Painted eggshells by artist Ruby Silvious #WomensArt

#236: Franz Schneider, St. Albertus Magnus, Düsseldorf-Golzheim (1939; renovation and tower by Hubert Brauns and Richard Janeschitz, 1974)

In a very short series called "books I did not buy"...is this one, was tempted though..😁

Christchurch Cathedral Dublin.

JESUS: *turns water into wine* JUDAS: *from the shower* okay that DOES IT

"Brick screen". Des Eileen Gray, 1922. Manu 1973.

A bleak but beatiful Watling Street in the sun aroumd noon today.

As the mother of a flight attendant with a different airline, I absolutely *love* this safety video - a really superior safety message. 💕 🛫 ✈️

Man in his 20s knocked off bicycle and killed in crash involving truck driver at O’Connell St A man in his 20s was knocked off a bicycle and killed in a collision involving a cement mixer at the junction of Middle Abbey Street and O’Connell Street in Dublin today. The crash was initially reported…

Frank McDonald's 1985 book The Destruction of Dublin, an important work that chronicled the ruination of a lot of the city's historic built environment from the 1960's to the 1980's. Relatively uncommon as a find. thebookshop.ie/frank-mcdona...

The late 2nd half exodus from Croker to Heuston Station shows David Clifford isn't the only Kerry man who can move that fast.....😆

1850s - Garrison Churches, Curragh Camp, Newbridge, Co. Kildare #irisharchitecture www.archiseek.com/1850s-garris...

Galway City Building of the Month for March is the former fever hospital, Earl's Island (RPS.3601). Built circa 1822, the fever hospital was a critical piece of public health infrastructure that operated throughout the 19th century.  For more info check out: www.instagram.com/p/DVy8nUeAB7...

From our Irish Modern series: Design for a rug. Mainie Jellett. c.1920. Order yours: duille.com/irishmodern

5 months ago I bought about 250 antique magic lantern slides for about €60. Mostly french Romanesque, Venetian & Roman Architecture. Dating from the late 1870s to 1900. Bought a couple of projectors too, converted to electric; only now getting the chance to look properly at them using a lightpad.

The Royal Society of Ulster Architects (RSUA) has announced the 45 finalists for its new all-Ulster Architecture Awards

@jimmerthatisall.bsky.social Handel's Messiah was first performed in Dublin in April 1742, almost a year before the London premiere.

Stone carving detail, Queen's Cross Church. Charles Rennie Mackintosh. 1896. Photo: Tony Hisgett 2017.

Bexhill is not only good for Modernist architecture, it also has more than its fair share of onion domes along the seafront. There was a late C19 trend for Orientalist structures at the seaside but very few survive so it's always nice to see these

In Oxfam Parliament Street Dublin for €7 each. Worth buying.

Will McBride - Berlin, 1956

@archiseek.bsky.social @andysheridan.bsky.social from this months @historyireland.bsky.social May be of interest to those of us from the "lost" 3 counties..😁

An interesting little booklet picked up in Oxfam Parliament Street for an Exhibition in the Tate 1988 on Turner & Architecture: €2. I never knew that background to Turner.

Girl and Bicycle Dublin, Ireland 1966 📷Evelyn Hofer

Bicycles Please Dublin, 1963 📷Edward Quinn

Tandem Tricycle Capel Street Bridge, Dublin Ireland 1930s

This is the page the first part of the post came from www.victorianturkishbath.org/_6DIRECTORY/... and these are the pages the second part of the post came from www.victorianturkishbath.org/_6DIRECTORY/... Enjoy!

#onthisday 17 March—St Patrick's Day—Dr Richard Barter opened 2 Irish-Roman (Victorian Turkish) baths: in 1859, the 1st #TurkishBaths in Ireland for public use at 9 Grenville Place, #Cork; & in 1869, his 2nd #Dublin baths at Sackville—now O'Connell—St. Before & after pix +ALT 🗃️ #irishhistory #C19th

Rene Maltete. Peintres peignant une façade de bâtiment. 1967.