ESS PROJECT

GEORGIAN DUBLIN

BY

ROBERT ASHE

CLASS 2A

RIVERSDALE COMMUNITY

COLLEGE

2001 / 2002

AIMS

1.TO LEARN ABOUT

DUBLIN IN GEORGIAN

TIMES

2.TO LEARN ABOUT

GEORGIAN

ARCHITECTURE

[HOUSES AND PUBLIC

BUILDINGS]

3.TO LEARN HOW

PEOPLE LIVED

[RICH OR POOR]

IN GEORGIAN

TIMES

4.TO UNDERSTAND

OUR ANSESTERS

AND THE PART

THEY PLAYED IN

IN OUR CITY’S

HERITAGE.

THE CUSTOM HOUSE:

JAMES GANDON

DESIGNED THIS IN

1781.IT TOOK

TEN YEARS TO

COMPLETE AND COST

NEARLY£300,000

IT WAS BUILT OF

GRANITE AND

AND PORTLAND

STONE.THE

PRINCIPAL

RIVARS OF

IRELAND CAN BE

SEEN AS SYMBOLS

ON THE FRONT OF

THE BUILDING.