XAW009775 IRELAND (1947). Custom House, Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, 1947. Oblique aerial photograph taken facing North.

Gloucester Diamond and 27 steps

Tolka Park, Drumcondra FC

Amiens Street station - now Connolly

Corporation Buildings (The Buildings)

Guinness boat. Note kegs on quay ready for loading.

Busarus site preparation. Completed in 1953. Busaras was the first major work of modern architecture in post-war Dublin.

Mountjoy Square

19th century tenements on Summerhill

Gardiner Street Lower

Amiens Street Station, renamed Connolly in 1966.

Phibsborough

Croke Park, home of the Gaelic Athletic Association and temporary ground of the Irish Rugby Football Union from 2006 until 2010, when Lansdowne Road was being redeveloped.

Enclosed dock basins and associated warehouses

Eden Quay

Tara Street Bridge

Marlborough Street

Railway bridge over Lower Gardiner Street on the way round to Amiens Street Station on the edge of the photo.

River Liffey

Liffey Railway Viaduct

Tara Street Station

City Quay

George's Quay

Custom House Quay

The magnificent Custom House was built between 1781 and 1791 by James Gandon, but was largely destroyed during the War of Independence (1921), before it was rebuilt after the establishment of the Irish Free State in the following year.