The city became celebrated for its great boulevards and squares lined with terraces of grand houses and lordly mansions. Magnificent public buildings such as the Four Courts, The Custom House and Leinster House were built by some of the most eminent architects of the day.

Although much regrettable redevelopment has since taken place from the 1960s to the 1980s which resulted in the loss of several noted Georgian period buildings the city still boasts many streets which have remained virtually intact from the great Age of Enlightenment.

It is easy for the modern visitor to conjure up, on a quiet Sunday morning along Merrion Square or Upper Mount Street, the sounds and sights of a bygone age presented by bewigged gentlemen, swashbuckling beaus, fashionable ladies, scurrying servants, aproned chambermaids, trundling delivery carts and elegant carriages.

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