Official Residences in the Republic of Ireland - Ras an Uachtarin, Taoiseach's Residence, Under Secretary's Lodge, Chief Secretary's Lodge (Paperback)

Chapters: ras an Uachtarin, Taoiseach's Residence, Under Secretary's Lodge, Chief Secretary's Lodge, Mansion House, Dublin, Strathmore. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: ras an Uachtarin (Irish pronunciation: ), formerly the Viceregal Lodge, is the official residence of the President of Ireland. It is located in the Phoenix Park on the northside of Dublin. The original house was designed by park ranger and amateur architect, Nathaniel Clements in the mid eighteenth century. It was bought by the administration of the British Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to become his summer residence in the 1780s. His official residence was in the Viceregal Apartments in Dublin Castle. The house in the park later became the Viceregal Lodge, the "out of season" residence of the Lord Lieutenant (also known as the Viceroy), where he lived for most of the year from the 1820s onwards. During the Social Season (January to St. Patrick's Day in March) he lived in state in Dublin Castle. (Another former summer residence, Abbeville in Kinsealy, North Dublin, later became well known as the home of Charles Haughey.) Phoenix Park once contained three official state residences. The Viceregal Lodge, the Chief Secretary's lodge and the Under Secretary's Lodge. The Chief Secretary's Lodge, now called Deerfield, is the residence of the United States Ambassador to Ireland. The Under Secretary's Lodge, now demolished, served for many years as the Apostolic Nunciature. Some historians have claimed that the garden front portico of ras an Uachtarin (which can be seen by the public from the main road through the Phoenix Park) was used as a model by Irish architect James Hoban who designed the White House. However the porticoes were not part of Hoban's original design and were in fact...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=147772