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Dublin City Hall

Government and Civic Buildings

Dublin City Hall on Dame Street began life as the Royal Exchange and today serves as the formal seat of Dublin City Council. Architect Thomas Cooley won a design competition held in 1768 and 1769 for the building, which was completed in 1779 in a Neoclassical style faced in white Portland stone from Dorset, with carved capitals by Simon Vierpyl. Its centerpiece is a rotunda beneath a dome roughly 32 feet high supported on twelve columns, with a further 10 feet of dome above. Dublin Corporation purchased the building in the 1850s and renamed it City Hall in 1852; during the 1916 Easter Rising the Irish Citizen Army garrisoned the building, and a guard there became one of the rising's first casualties when he was shot by Sean Connolly. Today the building hosts council meetings alongside a permanent exhibition on the history of Dublin.

Facts
Building TypeSourced to the subject's own account
City Hall 2
Location
Dublin, Ireland 1
Completed Year
1779 1
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)
Government / Parliament Building 1
Connections

Has Building Type

Parliament Building, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

In Style

Georgian Architecture, Styles and Movements
Source City Hall, Dublin - Wikipedia
Neoclassical Architecture, Styles and Movements
Source City Hall, Dublin - Wikipedia

Uses Element

Stone, Architectural Materials
Source City Hall, Dublin - Wikipedia
In the Other Atlases
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Ireland, located there.
Sources
1. City Hall, Dublin - Wikipedia
  • Infobox, location_city
    Dublin
  • Infobox, completion_date
    1779
  • Wikipedia "City Hall, Dublin" intro (read live, w-fk-arch-rel2-0927c, R-K)
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    Dublin City Hall on Dame Street began life as the Royal Exchange and today serves as the formal seat of Dublin City Council. Architect Thomas Cooley won a design competition held in 1768 and 1769 for the building, which was completed in 1779 in a Neoclassical style faced in white Portland stone from Dorset, with carved capitals by Simon Vierpyl. Its centerpiece is a rotunda beneath a dome roughly 32 feet high supported on twelve columns, with a further 10 feet of dome above. Dublin Corporation purchased the building in the 1850s and renamed it City Hall in 1852; during the 1916 Easter Rising the Irish Citizen Army garrisoned the building, and a guard there became one of the rising's first casualties when he was shot by Sean Connolly. Today the building hosts council meetings alongside a permanent exhibition on the history of Dublin.
  • In Style: Georgian Architecture, Wikipedia categories
    Category:Georgian architecture in Dublin (city)
  • In Style: Neoclassical Architecture, Wikipedia categories
    Category:Neoclassical architecture in Ireland
  • Uses Element: Stone, Wikipedia article
    The exterior of the building is primarily made out of white Portland stone from a quarry in Dorset.
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2. Dublin City Hall (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata instance-of (P31) statement (City hall)
Quote, Wikidata instance-of (P31) statement (City hall)
Wikidata item Q1101808, instance of (P31): city hall
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