This talk will be recorded and made available online at a later date.

ISL interpretation will be provided.

About this talk:

On Wednesday 17 December 1834 the first passenger railway line in Ireland opened as the Dublin and Kingstown Railway Company, with its central termini at Westland Row. Over the next four decades thousands of miles of railway tracks were spliced through Ireland’s landscape, creating an expansive web of public connectivity and human endeavour. Ireland’s capital city further gained a total of five terminal railway stations: Harcourt Street, Broadstone, Heuston, and Connolly, with each demonstrating the style and ambition of each respective railway company. Join this talk to find out more about the history of railway development in Dublin through the architecture of its terminal stations, the architects and engineers who designed them, and the Irish manufacturers and builders who made them manifest.

About the speaker:

Dr Siobhan Osgood is a railway and architectural historian specialising in industrial archaeology and nineteenth-century building practices. She completed her doctoral thesis ‘Building the Great Northern Railway (Ireland): Design, Communication and Construction’, at Trinity College Dublin, funded by the Irish Research Council. Find out more at www.railwayarchitecture.com

About the series:

The Oak Room Heritage Talks free public lecture series aims to showcase heritage projects, topics and new research across Dublin city, and is an action of the Dublin City Strategic Heritage Plan 2024 - 2029.

The series has received grant support from the Heritage Council.

Dublin's Railway Architecture