Identity area
Reference code
IE LMOD 434
Title
1961 View over St. Stephen's Green by Charles Cushman
Date(s)
- Twentieth Century (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
Archival paper, ink. 31 x 46 cm
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
26/07/2011
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Colour photograph of the view of St. Stephen's Green showing the Dublin Mountains in the background from the Shelbourne Hotel taken by Charles Cushman on 9 June 1961.
This is the view from Charles Cushman’s bedroom in the Shelbourne Hotel on 9 June 1961. St. Stephen’s Green was marshy common-land until 1663, when Dublin Corporation enclosed the centre of the common and sold the perimeter for development. The park was walled-in in 1664, and restricted to local residents until 1877. Sir Arthur Guinness paid for it to be landscaped in 1880. There is a statue of him on the west side of the Green.
