Along the Georgian expanse of Fitzwilliam Street Lower is the corner house (with Mount Street Upper), number 29.
On 14 June 1731, 14 men met in Trinity College to form the Dublin Society (the "Royal" prefix was only added in 1821) to promote "husbandry, manufactures and other useful arts and sciences".
Tailors' Hall was built in 1706 for the Guild of Tailors but the building was also hired out to other guilds and organisations.
Fishamble Street was first laid down by the Viking's around the 10th century as a through passageway to connect the river to the main market centre around High Street.
The Mansion House was originally built in 1705 for Joshua Dawson who was the developer of Dawson Street and Nassau Street.
The Irish Parliament had been meeting in Chichester House, on College Green, since 1661 but the accommodation there was both inadequate and in decay.
The King's Inns was architect James Gandon's last great public building in Dublin. Standing with Henrietta Street to its rear and Constitution Hill to its elegant front it was built between 1795 and 1827.
Around 1720, William Conolly, the Speaker of the Irish Parliament, built a hunting lodge on Mount Pelier Hill in South County Dublin.
An architectural competition was announced in 1768 by the Merchants' Guild of Dublin for a new Royal Exchange on Cork Hill opposite the recently opened Parliament Street.
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.
