Identity area
Reference code
IE LMOD 290
Title
1967 ESB Fitzwilliam Street by Michael Byrne
Date(s)
- Twentieth Century (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
paper, ink. 37 x 49 cm
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
13/07/2011
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Colour picture of the destruction of Fitzwilliam Street dated 1967 when the ESB were building on the street.
Michael Byrne’s painting of ‘Derelict Dublin’ shows the destruction of Fitzwilliam Street in 1967, as the ESB knocked down several houses to build a new headquarters. Until then it had been the longest uninterrupted stretch of Georgian architecture in the world.