Dublin is now far outclassed by the way cities such as Edinburgh present their Georgian histories – and the ESB’s proposed replacement doesn’t pass muster
Why the ESB s decision to turn a museum into apartments is wrong
Updated / Friday, 5 Feb 2021
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here are many other buildings in Dublin that could be converted into homes if urban regeneration was supported and not stymied
In the mid-1960s, the ESB demolished 16 Georgian houses on Fitzwilliam Street in Dublin in order to build their new headquarters. Almost as an act of belated atonement for the destruction of the historic fabric of the city, the company opened Number Twenty Nine Fitzwilliam Street Lower as a Georgian House museum in 1991. The house was built in the mid-1790s and the museum showcases life in late-Georgian Dublin, enabling visitors to explore the house, each room full of period furniture, paintings and household objects, many of them borrowed from the National Museum.