Richard Castle

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Nano Nagle Place: a renovated space for Cork’s 21st-century communities
Talk about it: Art and architecture talks in Dublin and Cork

The legacy of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin in Ireland; the history of the earliest piece of documented Chinese porcelain in Europe, the Fonthill Vas(...)

Left, The Adelphi Club, Belfast (1783), Joseph Wilson. Private collection
Great 18th-century Irish art and crafts that took the boat

When Richard Robinson died in 1794, it was said that the former archbishop of Armagh had converted his see “from an unsightly crowd of mud cabins i(...)

Walks: A Ramble in Glassan Village, Co Westmeath

Glassan Village, Co Westmeath Getting there: Glassan village is on the N55 nine kilometres north of Athlone.(...)

One of a number of surviving designs for the front elevation of Leinster House in Dublin by Richard Castle
Around the block: Original architectural drawings on display

Lovers of architecture and history will revel in a new summer exhibition opening this week at the Irish Architectural Archive on Merrion Square. It wi(...)

Hazelwood House in Sligo designed by Richard Castle, the architect behind Leinster House, Powerscourt House and Russborough House
Buildings at Risk: Hazelwood House, Sligo

Why is it of interest? Hazelwood House is noted as the first Palladian house in Ireland designed by (...)