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A cute collection of Georgian fanlights that shows the range of designs — also some interesting historical notes on the effects of 1700’s construction policy and the transition away from wooden window designs. Also s/o to Dublin 🇮🇪
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Some interesting “myth busting” for the 2000s Irish housing bubble
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A very cute Bloomsday event in the heart of SF, with a fun history lesson about how an Irish engineer started MUNI
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My first podcast on the wonderful new Memo to File from Luke Fehily and Tom O’Connor
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A sad piece to have to write, but sadder still to look away
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Emigrating from Belfast to Los Angeles with a pit stop in Pittsburgh and San Francisco, creating the LA aqueduct, getting Mulholland Drive called after you, earning an honorary doctorate from Berkeley, and rejecting the idea of being LA mayor because you’d “rather give birth to a porcupine backwards”. What a guy!
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Imagining a theme park called Fota(voltaic) Island to help galvanize the Irish towards being wholehearted stewards of technological progress, rooted in their own history of successful national STEM programs. I'm sure @oisin will have thoughts.
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Still on my quest for the “quintessentially Irish architectural aesthetic that delights” but in the meantime, I can’t stop loving these 18th century neo-classical gems
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A reminder of the architectural historical beauty of Dublin.
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The Irish Independent originally reported concerns that the pedestrianisation of the area would attract “hippies, street performers and vagrants in the street.”
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