Richard Cassels, also known as Richard Castle, was an architect who ranks with Edward Lovett Pearce as one of the greatest architects working in Ireland in the 18th century. Cassels was born in 1690 in Kassel, Germany. Although German, his family were of French origin and descended from the French-Netherlandish 'Du Ry' family, famous for the many architects among their number. A cousin Simon Louis du Ry designed Schloss Wilhelmshöhe in Kassel.
Irish Palladianism. Russborough House, Ireland. One of the many country houses designed in Ireland by Richard Cassels
Printing House, Trinity College Dublin
Summerhill House, main front
Tyrone House, Dublin designed by Cassels for Marcus Beresford, 1st Earl of Tyrone as his city townhouse.
Sir Edward Lovett Pearce was an Irish architect, and the chief exponent of Palladianism in Ireland. He is thought to have initially studied as an architect under his father's first cousin, Sir John Vanbrugh. He is best known for the Irish Houses of Parliament in Dublin, and his work on Castletown House. The architectural concepts he employed on both civic and private buildings were to change the face of architecture in Ireland. He could be described as the father of Irish Palladian architecture and Georgian Dublin.
Castletown House in County Kildare
Bellamont House in County Cavan
The upper portion of the obelisk
Drawing of the front of Parliament House, Dublin with the dome, seen from the street-level, in the 18th century