Leinster House was built in 1745 for the Earl of Kildare (he was created the Duke of Leinster in 1766). Richard Cassels (1690-1751) was the architect and he designed what was to become the largest mansion in the city.
The Kildare family sold the house in 1815 to the Dublin Society (later the Royal Dublin Society). The Society built extensions to the main house, including the lecture theatre, and its various scholarly collections evolved into the adjoining National Library and National Museum.
In 1922 the house was bought by the Government to serve as a Parliament House in which Dáil Éireann (the Lower House) and Seanad Éireann (the Senate or Upper House) would sit.
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