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Правительственные здания
Tithe an Rialtais
Главный фасад правительственных зданий
Тип	Достопримечательность
Страна	Ирландия
Местоположение	Расположение в центре Дублина
Тип здания	Гостевой дом
Архитектурный стиль	Эдвардианская архитектура
Строительство	1904—1922 годы

Правительственные здания (ирл. Tithe an Rialtais) является большим зданием Эдвардианского периода, охватывающим четырехугольник на Меррион-стрит в Дублине, Ирландия, в котором расположены несколько ключевых офисов Правительства Ирландии. Среди государственных учреждений, расположенных в здании, следующие:

• Департамент Таоисич
• Зал совета («кабинет министров»)
• Генеральный прокурор Ирландии
• Министерство финансов
• Департамент государственных расходов, реализация национального плана развития и реформа

Происхождение

Сэр Астон Уэбб, архитектор нового Королевского научного колледжа

Здание, которое должно было стать правительственным зданием, было последним крупным общественным зданием, построенным при правлении British на территории нынешней Ирландской Республики. Он был спроектирован сэром Астоном Уэббом, британским архитектором, который позже перепроектировал фасад Букингемского дворца, и был построен на месте ряда георгианские дома, которые спорно сносились один за другим по мере его возведения. Первый камень в фундамент был заложен королем эдуардом VII в 1904 году, а здание было открыто королем георгом V в 1911 году.

It was owned by the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction, an agency of the Dublin Castle administration, and intended for use by the Royal College of Science. In June 1921, the Council Room was chosen as the location for the first meeting of the new Parliament of Southern Ireland, created under the Government of Ireland Act 1920. It proved a fiasco, as only 4 of 128 members of the House of Commons turned up, and 15 of the 64 Senators.

With the coming into existence of the Irish Free State in December 1922, Leinster House, the headquarters of the Royal Dublin Society, located next door to the Royal College of Science, became the provisional seat of the Free State’s parliament, Oireachtas Shaorstát Éireann. The Executive Council of the Irish Free State immediately commandeered part of the college as temporary office space. Two years later, the Free State decided to buy Leinster House outright from the RDS. Government usage of part of the Royal College of Science also became permanent.

Original government buildings (1922—1991)

From 1922 to 1991, the former Royal College of Science building was divided between a number of bodies. The wing to the right of the main entrance (the north wing) was used by the Department of the President, later in 1938 renamed Department of the Taoiseach. The Attorney General, the Department of Justice and other offices also occupied that wing of the building. The south wing was occupied permanently by the Department of Finance. The centre block of the courtyard under the dome was still used by the Royal College of Science, and later when it merged with University College Dublin, by students from the Faculty of Engineering. Over the decades, some departments moved out to purpose-built offices, leaving the north wing for the Taoiseach, Government Secretariat and Attorney General.

Current Government Buildings

In the mid-1980s, increasingly unhappy at the cramped office space, Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald decided to convert the entire building for government use. This policy was implemented by his successor, Charles Haughey, who had the state sell a block of Georgian houses across the road, which up to then had been in state ownership, for £17 million to fund the rebuild. A new engineering faculty was also built on University College Dublin's Belfield campus at tens of millions of pounds.

Much of the original interior of the original building was gutted to facilitate the creation of a state-of-the-art new government office. Haughey finally moved into the new building in 1991. Critics of the expenditure, at a time when the Republic of Ireland was in financial difficulties, nicknamed the building the Chaz Mahal. However, criticism of the redesigned building soon died away and it won major architectural awards for its design, with world leaders like British Prime Minister John Major praising it to then Taoiseach Albert Reynolds when he visited the building to meet him. The entrance hall is dominated by light streaming through Evie Hone's critically acclaimed stained glass window, My Four Green Fields.

The new building included a state-of-the-art suite of offices for the Taoiseach and staff, a set of committee rooms, new offices, canteen facilities, a helicopter pad and a new press briefing room. Originally the Office of Public Works had planned a new cabinet suite of rooms also. However, the Government opted to continue to use the Council Chamber which had been the cabinet room for all Irish governments since 1922.

Government Buildings are protected by the Garda Síochána and an armed company from the Military Police Corps.

Gallery

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  Government Buildings façade in the evening.
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  An armed Military Police soldier on duty at Government Buildings