…Custom House (1781–91) and the Four Courts (1786–1802). The Custom House was burned out in 1921 by republicans who wished to destroy administrative records; the Four Courts was ruined by shellfire and mines at the outbreak of civil war in June 1922. Both have since been rebuilt.
Read MoreIn Dublin, James Gandon’s Four Courts (1786–96), with its shallow saucer dome raised on a high columnar drum with echoes of Wren’s St. Paul’s Cathedral, and his Custom House (1781–91) owe joint allegiance to the Palladianism of Sir William Chambers and contemporary French Neoclassicism. Edinburgh, the “Athens of the…
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