the state apartments at dublin castle dominate the south range of the great courtyard...
built as the residential and public quarters of the viceregal court, they were the seat of the executive and focus of fashionable and extravagabt social life...
today the apartments are the venue for ireland's presidencies of the european union, presidential inaugurations and prestigious functions...
the state dining room, also known as the picture gallery or supper room is the oldest room in dublin castle and is reputed to largely retain its original decoration having escaped major modification and fire over the years...it dates from the 1740's
the throne room also dates form the 1740's and contains a throne built for the visit of king george IV to ireland in 1821...
i loved the massive floor lamps on the grand staircase...i'm not sure which was bigger...the lamps or me...
built as the residential and public quarters of the viceregal court, they were the seat of the executive and focus of fashionable and extravagabt social life...
today the apartments are the venue for ireland's presidencies of the european union, presidential inaugurations and prestigious functions...
the state dining room, also known as the picture gallery or supper room is the oldest room in dublin castle and is reputed to largely retain its original decoration having escaped major modification and fire over the years...it dates from the 1740's
the throne room also dates form the 1740's and contains a throne built for the visit of king george IV to ireland in 1821...
i loved the massive floor lamps on the grand staircase...i'm not sure which was bigger...the lamps or me...
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