Editing Architecture of Ireland (section)

==Victorian period==
[[File:Cathedral-lk.jpg|left|thumb|200px|[[Cathedral of St Eunan and St Columba|St Eunan's Cathedral]], [[Letterkenny]], in [[Ulster]].]]
During the 19th century, because all of Ireland was a constituent part of the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]], British architecture continued to influence building styles in Ireland. Many prominent Irish buildings were designed and built in Ireland during this period (1837–1901), including Findlater's Church<ref>[http://ireland.archiseek.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/northcity/parnell/findlaters.html Findlater's Church] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201230300/http://ireland.archiseek.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/northcity/parnell/findlaters.html |date=1 December 2008 }}</ref> on Parnell Square, the Royal City of Dublin Hospital,<ref>[http://ireland.archiseek.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/southcity/baggot_street/hospital.html Royal City of Dublin Hospital] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080709002022/http://ireland.archiseek.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/southcity/baggot_street/hospital.html |date=9 July 2008 }}</ref> Olympia Theatre,<ref>[http://ireland.archiseek.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/southcity/dame_street/olympia.html Olympia Theatre] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202120134/http://ireland.archiseek.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/southcity/dame_street/olympia.html |date=2 December 2008 }}</ref> the Central Markets in [[Cork (city)|Cork]], the [[National Museum of Ireland]],<ref>[http://ireland.archiseek.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/southcity/kildare_street/nationalmuseum.html National Museum of Ireland] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080703230847/http://ireland.archiseek.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/southcity/kildare_street/nationalmuseum.html |date=3 July 2008 }}</ref> the [[National Library of Ireland]],<ref>[http://ireland.archiseek.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/southcity/kildare_street/nationallibrary.html National Library of Ireland] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201133952/http://ireland.archiseek.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/southcity/kildare_street/nationallibrary.html |date=1 December 2008 }}</ref> the Natural History Museum,<ref>[http://ireland.archiseek.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/southcity/merrion_square/naturalhistorymuseum.html Natural History Museum] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120035015/http://ireland.archiseek.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/southcity/merrion_square/naturalhistorymuseum.html |date=20 November 2008 }}</ref> and the National Gallery of Ireland.<ref>[http://ireland.archiseek.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/southcity/merrion_square/nationalgallery.html National Gallery of Ireland] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202145346/http://ireland.archiseek.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/southcity/merrion_square/nationalgallery.html |date=2 December 2008 }}</ref> Many of these new buildings were located in the Southside of [[Dublin]] in places like Kildare Street and Baggot Street and in the centre of [[Cork (city)|Cork]]. An important contributor was the notable English architect, [[Decimus Burton]]. He remodelled much of [[Cobh]], commissioned by [[George Brodrick, 5th Viscount Midleton|the 5th Viscount Midleton]], in the 1840s. He was the designer of Martinstown House in [[County Kildare]]. Prior to that he spent almost two decades renovating the vast neglected public areas of [[Phoenix Park]] in Dublin and incidentally designing [[Dublin Zoo]].<ref>{{cite web|title= Phoenix Park: History from the Georgian Period to the Present. The Nineteenth Century and the Decimus Burton Era|url = http://phoenixpark.ie/history/}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title= Dictionary of Irish Architects, 1720-1940|url = https://www.dia.ie/architects/view/783/BURTON%2C+DECIMUS+%23}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title= Chapelized Gate Lodge, Phoenix Park|url=http://archiseek.com/2010/1833-chapelizod-gate-lodge-phoenix-park-dublin/|place = Dublin}} [accessed 2018.12.05]</ref>

However, few buildings were built outside the major cities other than a few railway stations in the provincial towns.

During the Victorian period, many new statues were erected in Ireland, particularly in Dublin, [[Belfast]] and [[Cork (city)|Cork]]. These included several rather elegant statues of figures such as [[Queen Victoria]], [[Daniel O'Connell]] and [[Henry Grattan]].

[[File:OConnellMonument.JPG|right|thumb|180px|The [[Daniel O'Connell]] statue still stands today on O'Connell St. In the background is the [[Spire of Dublin]], illustrating the embrace of new architectural styles in Ireland]]
One of Ireland's finest Victorian buildings is the cathedral dedicated to [[Mary, mother of Jesus|St Mary]] at [[Killarney]]; it is built in a [[Gothic Revival architecture|Neo-Gothic]] style known as '[[Lancet arch#Lancet arch|Lancet]]-arched Gothic', so called because the cathedral has many long, slender lancet-shaped windows with acutely pointed arches. The architect was [[August Pugin]], one of the greatest<!-- is this NPOV? --> of Victorian architects. The cathedral—begun in 1842, funded by public subscription, and interrupted by the horrors of [[famine]]—was finally dedicated in 1855. The design is typical of Irish Gothic; it blends [[Corinthian order|Corinthian]] and [[Doric order|Doric]] orders and is decorated with [[Sicily|Sicilian]] [[marble]] and [[Caen]] stone. The cathedral is crowned by a [[spire]] of {{convert|280|ft|m}}. Pugin's work was eminently suited to Ireland.{{citation needed|date=July 2016}} A convert to [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]]ism, he believed Gothic architecture to be the only style suitable for religious worship and attacked the earlier Neoclassical architecture as pagan and almost [[blasphemous]]. This philosophy embraced by the church in Ireland at the time helped to popularise the Gothic style in Victorian Ireland.