The Wide Streets Commission (officially the Commissioners for making Wide and Convenient Ways, Streets and Passages) was established by an Act of Parliament...

patronage. During the 19th century, Sackville Street changed in character from the Wide Streets Commission design into a boulevard of individual buildings...

In Ireland the first and best known improvement commission was the Dublin Wide Streets Commission in 1757, which covered the area of Dublin Corporation...

The Wide Streets Commission was established in 1757 at the request of Dublin Corporation to govern architectural standards on the layout of streets, bridges...

the Grand Canal to the south and east and Aungier, Wexford and Camden Streets to the west. Dublin 3 encompasses areas such as Ballybough, North Strand...

within the term above mentioned." While the rebuilding by the Wide Streets Commission fundamentally changed the streetscape in Dublin, a property boom...

the streets. Partly as a result of the police withdrawal, a wave of looting broke out in the city centre, especially in the area of O'Connell Street (still...

exploded in Dublin city centre at Parnell Street, Talbot Street and South Leinster Street during rush hour. The streets all ran east-west from busy thoroughfares...

sculpted Roman galley. The choice of the Sackville Street site was not unanimous. The Wide Streets Commissioners were worried about traffic congestion...

the Wide Streets Commission demolishing many of the narrow medieval streets and replacing them with large Georgian streets. Among the famous streets to...

[citation needed] The Mall is a Georgian thoroughfare, built by the Wide Streets Commission to extend the city southwards. It contains some of the city's finest...

paper street or paper road (also known as an Unformed legal road) is a street or road that appears on maps but has not been built. Paper streets generally...

along the street. This was supplemented by the widening and rebuilding which took place as part of the work of the Wide Streets Commission, from 1841...

talented orator and a fine writer. He became known for his speeches on the streets of Dublin in support of socialism and Irish nationalism. In 1896, Connolly...

Bridge and subsequently Capel Street. Parliament Street was created in the early 1760s by the Wide Streets Commission to open up a direct route to Dublin...

Revenue Commissioners, as a meeting place and offices for the Wide Streets Commission and was said to be Dublin's first dedicated office building. The...

architectural context (at the centre of a maze of small buildings and streets) lost due to road-building and the demolition of the older residential...

exceptions, even-numbered streets are one-way eastbound and odd-numbered streets are one-way westbound. Most wider streets, and a few of the narrow ones...

section of the street. The street was created during a period of street construction and improvement overseen by the Wide Streets Commission in the 18th...

was built in 1789 by William Whitton, of Dominick Street, and made its first appearance on the streets of Dublin on 4 November 1791 in an annual event to...

newly formed Wide Streets Commission employed Gandon to design a new aristocratic enclave in the vicinity of Mountjoy Square and Gardiner Street. The new...

This article deals with the streets and squares in Dublin and the Greater Dublin Area of Ireland. Many streets in Dublin carry names given during the period...

Thomas Sherrard of the Wide Streets Commission in 1789 and approved by the board in 1790, the land on either side of the street was later let as lots for...

Ireland from 1789 to 1794. It was one of the last streets laid out by the Wide Streets Commission, with the original plans set out in 1792 by Henry Aaron...

Hall, Skinner Row, a building that was demolished as part of the Wide Streets Commission in June 1762. She then operated from Temple Bar from 1763 to 1767...

traffic volumes, the Wide Streets Commission was established in 1757. It bought houses by compulsory purchase to widen streets or to create new ones...

church, recorded in 1552 and demolished in 1698. The street was widened by the Wide Streets Commission in 1769 and developed into the city's financial centre...

Building, designed by George Halpin in 1815, was approved by the Wide Streets Commission in 1816 and work commenced on this building soon afterwards. Its...

until October 1837. The residents of this part of the street petitioned the Wide Streets Commission to have the name changed because of a bad reputation...

of the Wide Streets Commission. The street was one of the last major interventions in the Dublin city plan to be executed by the Wide Streets Commissioners...