Cathal O'Neill's Dublin

This volume contains a collection of watercolour paintings by the author of his favourite Dublin buildings and green spaces. Each painting is accompanied by a commentary that is descriptive, historical and evokes personal memories or associations of the author from his early life or his professional career. The buildings range from the public and private, contemporary and historical.

Dubliner Cathal O'Neill, former Head of the School of Architecture at UCD, has a strong affection for
and    unrivalled    professional
knowledge of the buildings of Ireland's capital city, public and private, contemporary and historic. Cathal O'Neill's Dublin contains a collection of watercolour paintings by the author of his favourite Dublin buildings and green spaces. Each painting is accompanied by a commentary that is descriptive, historical, or that evokes personal memories or associations of the author from his early life or his professional career. Stimulating, original and above all personal, Cathal 0' Nei II's perceptions of space and of the uses of buildings will confirm the status of Dublin both as a city of fine architecture and a city for people.

Cathal O'Neill was Born in Capel Street in Dublin and received his early education in the Model Schools in Marlborough Street and Colaiste Mhuire Parnell Square. He entered UCD as an architecture student in 1949. As a student he travelled extensively in Western Europe. meeting I ead i ng contemporary figures including Le Corbusier and Picasso. He subsequently studied with Mies van der Rohe at the Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, where he took a Masters degree and then worked in Mies's private office. He later returned to practise and lecture in architecture at UCD, becoming Head of the School in 1973. 

He retired as Professor in 1996 and is now in full-time practice.
 

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