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Historic Architecture
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More Than Concrete Blocks : Dublin city's twentieth-century buildings and their stories, Volume 3 1973-1999 : 3€30.00
More Than Concrete Blocks: Dublin city's twentieth-century buildings and their stories is a three volume series of architectural history books which are richly illustrated and written for the general reader.
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Dublin: Mapping the City (Hardback)€39.99
Together with maps that reveal much about the famous buildings, transport, health, trade, life and work of the city, this book is a fascinating portrait of Dublin through the ages which offers many new perspectives on one of Europe's great cities.
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Frank Lloyd Wright : The Architecture of Defiance€34.99
The story of Frank Lloyd Wright's life is no less astounding than his greatest architectural works. He enmeshed himself eagerly in myth and hearsay, and revelled in the extravagance of his creative persona.
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Straw, Hay & Rushes in Irish Folk Tradition€35.00
Fully illustrated history of everyday rural Irish life, based on the National Museum of Ireland’s collection of straw, hay and rushes.
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The Red Sea Scrolls : How Ancient Papyri Reveal the Secrets of the Pyramids€36.99
The inside story, told by the archaeological detectives themselves, of the extraordinary discovery of the world's oldest papyri - revealing how King Khufu's men built the Great Pyramid at Giza.
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Walls of Containment€39.99
This book reveals the rich variety of buildings and landscapes created as the asylum system evolved over the course of two centuries. Today, as the last of the large mental institutions pass into history, their architectural legacy – captured eloquently in this book by over 400 historic and contemporary photographs, drawings and diagrams – faces an uncertain future.
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Building the Irish Courthouse and Prison : A Political History, 1750-1850€39.99
This book is the first national history of the building of some of Ireland's most important historic public buildings.
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The Building Site in Eighteenth-Century Ireland€35.00
This study by the late Arthur Gibney takes you among labourers, craftspeople, contractors, builders, and designers as they populate the building sites of eighteenth-century Ireland. Gibney tells a story that has never been told so comprehensively before. What kind of contracts bound those involved?
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Dublin, 1950-1970 : Houses, Flats and High Rise€31.00
Housing is the single biggest land use in any city and the 1950s and particularly the 1960s, saw Dublin having to expand beyond the city boundaries in order to meet the demand for houses.
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