leinsterhouse

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_College_of_Science_for_Ireland

12:25 - what's for lunch?

I studied Engineering there up to my graduation in 1988. I think we may have been the last year before Haughey moved in, in 1991 after big renovations. UCD Engineers relocated to Belfield.

In this Mulligan shot, you can see that the proposed statue of Hibernia surveying the globe (or whatever) was replaced by a hungover engineering student trying to complete a technical drawing assignment:

via David Ramalho ‘No entry’ Reminiscent of the architecture of our former colonial masters

This space was an RDS lecture theater until 1922, so this must be 1922-39. From wikipedia: it was decided to hire the main RDS Lecture Theatre attached to Leinster House for use in December 1922 as a temporary Dáil chamber. The building was bought outright from the RDS in 1924.

The room is octagonal in shape and its original seating capacity was 700. Little alteration was needed to adapt it for parliamentary purposes - the floor was raised and the seating capacity reduced. This photo matches a modern one, so I think it is after the alterations. The DIA says "alts for use as Dail" were from 1925-29, so I think this is earliest 1925.

The RTE stills library has some shots from 1969, no help. The flat wall with the pictures hung on it has been painted white by then, dark in this picture.

I wonder what all the controls on that piece of furniture are for?

maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,716267,733681,12,9

Oooh, another fire ladder! marked on the 25" as a Fire Escape. Trees now obscure this aspect in streetview

A set of fire ladders in Kingstown in the archive, and another in Monkstown

In this Bing bird's eye view, you can see that the long building with a skylight at right is the dead zoo.

Dating detail: swan necked lamp-post at left means after 1901 and tram electrification. No actual light on the lamp-post may mean it is during electrification works.

(Unlike many other streets, the swan necked lamp posts are still there in streetview).