ESB Fitzwilliam Street (1967).

Dublin’s Georgian architecture is one of it’s most instantly recognisable features. Michael Byrne's painting of 'Derelict Dublin' shows the destruction of Fitzwilliam Street in 1967, as the E.S.B. (Electricity Supply Board) knocked down several houses to build a new headquarters. Until then it had been the longest uninterrupted stretch of Georgian architecture in the world. In the 1960s the Financial Times noted, “the only reason why Dublin remained for so long the beautiful eighteenth-century city the English built is that the Irish were too poor to pull it down. Unfortunately, that is no longer the case.”