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City Hall

Name: City Hall
Address: City Hall Exhibition Centre Dame Street Cork Hill, BR
Telephone: +35312222204
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City Hall Exhibition Centre Dame Street Cork Hill, Dublin D02 NP93 Ireland

Tel: +35312222204

City Hall was built between 1769 and 1779. The build took ten years to complete. When they decided to build City Hall a competition was advertised and 62 submissions were made. The winner of this Competition was Thomas Cooley, a young architect from London. At the time, James Gandon would have been the primary architect in Dublin, but his designs came second in the competition. Thomas Cooley was also tendered to build the Four Courts, however at 44 years of age, he fell ill and died and therefore James Gandon became the primary architect in the building of the Four Courts. If you look to the ceiling you will see that there is a stained glass dome, initially this was meant to be left open, in the same vein as the Pantheon, however given that we are in Ireland and it rains so often, they decided to cover it in. The stone work was done by a German man called Simon Vierpyl, and the stuccodore responsible for the gilded work was a man called Charles Thorpe. Initially when City Hall was built, it was built as The Royal Exchange. This was where you would have come to exchange Irish Punt into English Sterling. This was where merchants and guildsmen gathered to discuss their trading affairs. If you look out the West door onto Castle Street, that was where the banks were located and if you look out the windows to the east, where the trading happened. Over by the Olympia Theatre was where debts were collected. This really was an epicentre of trade in Dublin for the later part of the 18th Century. The Wide Streets Commission used the building in the late 1780s and 1790s to meet to discuss the planning of the city. If you walk around the outer ring of the Rotunda, you will notice that there is a distinct echo, this was done intentionally. When Thomas Cooley was designing the building, he designed it so that the echo would muffle private conversations that were had when walking around the room. Upstairs, in what are now the Council Chambers, there were coffee rooms. Coffee House Culture in the Dublin in the 18th and 19th Century was quite popular. Coffee was a luxury item and therefore very expensive to buy, and this made it very fashionable in those days. In 1800 the Act of Union was introduced and this had a devastating effect on the economy in Dublin, and by 1827 the currency was amalgamated. The building fell into disuse and was then rented out. This was actually where O’Connell gave his first public address on the Act of Union and it is one of his most famous addresses. In 1852 this building was bought by Dublin City Council, and they had partitions put up for privacy. Since then, in 1998- 2000 Dublin City Council restored the building to it’s original state as part of a refurbishment plan for the millennium.

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Swords of Swordsmen: A Historical Slice

29/06/26 as 13:32

City Hall

Nice historical spot, but my disillusionment says I need a drink or two afterward.

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Caoimhe O'Neill

Swords of Swordsmen: A Historical Slice

28/06/26 as 05:10

Daniel Flynn

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City Hall

Swords of Swordsmen: A Historical Slice

26/05/26 as 20:22

Daniel Walsh

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City Hall

Swords of Swordsmen: A Historical Slice

28/05/26 as 04:44

City Hall

City Hall: a stunning reminder of Dublin’s past ambitions and a free ticket to more disillusionment.

Swords of Swordsmen: A Historical Slice

Swords of Swordsmen: A Historical Slice

Swords of Swordsmen: A Historical Slice

Swords of Swordsmen: A Historical Slice

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Swords of Swordsmen: A Historical Slice

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Swords of Swordsmen: A Historical Slice

Swords of Swordsmen: A Historical Slice

Places that the tribe frequents

Trinity Bar Venue

The Comedy Crunch

Pitchfork Comedy At Jt Pimms

The Mercantile Hotel

The George Bar

Crowbar