Bank of Ireland - Former Parliament House, College Green, which is at present known as the “Bank of Ireland, College Green”, is thus called due to its usage as a branch office of the Bank of Ireland. This building was the first official two chamber parliament houses used for the official purposes of the Irish government. It used to serve as the seats of Lords chamber and Commons chamber of the parliament of Ireland within the Kingdom of Ireland for a major part of the eighteenth century till the Irish parliament was terminated by the 1800 Act of Union when Ireland was included in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
The parliament settled in a manor in Hoggen Green (presently known as College Green), the Chichester House, which was owned by the Irish Lord High Treasurer, Munster’s president and Sir George Carew. This mansion was known to be constructed on a site of a convent, the construction of which was dissolved by King Henry VIII after the monasteries were dismissed. Carew’s house was established as a building of considerable significance as it served as a temporary residence for the law courts of the Kingdom of Ireland in the law term of the Michaelmas during 1605. The building also became famous for the signing up of the legal documents allowing the Plantation of Ulster on the 16th of November in 1612.
Carew’s house was in a decaying condition, supposedly eerie and unsuitable for being used as a parliament. So, in 1727, the parliament chose for spending 6,000 British pounds for the construction of a new parliament house on that site. The new building was to be the first formal parliament house to be built in the whole world.
Edward Lovett Pearce, a young skilled architect was assigned the duty of designing the Bank of Ireland - Former Parliament House, College Green.
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Edward was also a reputed Member of Parliament other than being a receiver of Castletown House’s William Connolly, the Speaker of the Irish parliament’s House of Commons.
The parliament was shifted to the northern part of Dublin at the Blue Coat Hospital. The cornerstone of the Bank of Ireland - Former Parliament House, College Green was put on the 3rd of February in 1729. The design created by Pearce was ground breaking and the new building of a semicircular shape covered 6,000 square meters of land.
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