Dorset Street is an important thoroughfare on the northside of Dublin, Ireland, and was originally part of the Slighe Midh-Luchra, Dublin's ancient road to the north that begins where the original bridging point at Church Street is today. Subsequently, yet prior to the street being given its current name in the 18th century, the road was known as Drumcondra Lane and was shown on maps as such. It is divided into Dorset Street Lower and Dorset Street Upper.
A view of Dorset Street with the steeple of the neoclassical St.George's Church in the distance
View of Dorset Street, c. 1913.
Monument to Peadar Kearney, Lower Dorset St.
The Big Tree pub on Dorset Street
Mountjoy Square is a garden square in Dublin, Ireland, on the Northside of the city just under a kilometre from the River Liffey. One of five Georgian squares in Dublin, it was planned and developed in the late 18th century by Luke Gardiner, 1st Viscount Mountjoy. It is surrounded on all sides by terraced, red-brick Georgian houses. Construction of the houses began piecemeal in 1792 and the final property was completed in 1818.
Clockwise from top: Mountjoy Square South in the snow of January 2010; a tree decorated with a mosaic in Mountjoy Square Park; Mountjoy Square West
Mountjoy Square Park, facing towards a house connected to W. B. Yeats, on the south-west corner
The door to number 20, Mountjoy Square. As is typical of Dublin's Georgian doorways, it is wide-set, painted brightly, and capped by a distinctive fanlight.
Mountjoy Square as seen from Mountjoy Square Park
