Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, AUNGIER STREET, PLAYHOUSE
| Name: | PEARCE, EDWARD LOVETT (SIR) |
| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, AUNGIER STREET, PLAYHOUSE |
| Date: | 1733 |
| Nature: | FS laid 8 May 1733; 'generally regarded as a very sumptuous but a very bad theatre with appalling acoustics and visibility' (Casey) |
| Refs: | DNB; Four letters originally written in French, relating to the Kingdom of Ireland (Dublin, 1839), 24; 'Annals of Dublin' in Pettigrew & Oulton's Dublin Almanac (1847); M. Lenihan, History of Limerick (1866), 331; Christine Casey, '"De architectura": an Irish eighteenth-century gloss', Architectural History 37 (1994), 88. |