Bibliography

Provided below is a list of reference books for those interested in the Architectural History of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown. The list also contains references for owners and occupiers of Protected Structures. This is not a definitive list of books. 

Pearson, Peter Between the Mountains and the Sea, O’Brien Press, Dublin, 1998

Dun Laoghaire Borough Historical Society Journal , 1990-2000

Dun Laoghaire Borough Heritage Society. St. Begnet’s Church & Graveyard, Dalkey

Henderson, Emmeline. M.A. Thesis. Some Examples of the Influence of the International Style on the Domestic Architecture of the Rathdown-Dun Laoghaire Borough between 1935 and 1950. 1998

IPCRA. Irish Conservation Directory. First and Second editions.

Images of Ireland, South Dublin From the Liffey to Greystones. Complied by Derek Stanley.  Gill & Macmillan Ltd, Dublin. 2000.

Dundrum, Stillorgan & Rathfarnham, Gateway to the Mountains. Paintings by Olivia Hayes. Cottage Publication, Northern Ireland, 2002.

Howley. James. The Follies and Garden Buildings of Ireland. Yale University Press, 1993.

Smith, F. Cornelius. Newtownpark Avenue, its people and their houses. 2001

Period House, A Conservation Guidance Manual. Edit & Compiled by Keohane, Frank, Dublin Civic Trust, 2001.

Genealogical Society of Ireland 2000. Dublin’s Riviera in the mid 19^th Century. Compiled by Brendan Hall & G.H. O’Reilly.

Garner, William. Buildings of Architectural Interest in the Borough of Dun Laoghaire. An Foras Forbatha, 1981.    

Williams, Jeremy. A Companion Guide to Architecture In Ireland 1837-1921. Irish Academic Press, 1994.

Irish Architectural Archive Box Files and Card Index for Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County.

The Irish Architectural Archive is compiling a biographical index of Irish architects from 1720 to 1940. The database contains biographical and bibliographical details on each architect, as well as a list of the buildings and projects on which they are known to have worked.

Contact: 73 Merrion Square. www.iarc.ie

Goodbody, Rob. On the Borders of the Pale. A History of Kilgobbin, Stepaside and the Sandyford area. Pale Publishing, Bray, 1993.

Rothery. Sean. Ireland and the New Architecture. 1900-1940.

Irish Georgian Society Traditional Building and Conservation Skills Register of Practitioners

Contact: 73 Merrion Square, Dublin 2 info@irishgoerigansoc.org Tel: 353 1 6767053