The Dubliner needs your help to save Lady Liberty
In the April issue of The Dubliner, in shops now, we launched our campaign to save Liberty Hall from destruction.
We think she's leggy and lovely, a symbol of Dublin's first boom era, and an icon of Sixties architecture – one of the few still standing. We want her to be updated and nursed back to her former glory, not torn down to make room for another generic tower.
If you feel the same, fill out our petition here. And tell your friends!
It is a great building, reflecting it’s time, complimenting Bus'R'Us and the copper domes of The Four Courts and The Custom House visually unifying the skyline of the quays.
God only knows what hokey architectural nightmare could replace it... faux Canary Warf’s like the Ulster Bank building or the generic steel/glass wood of the IFSC and much of dockland Dublin.
It is one of the few landmarks of the centre city and should be kept. End of story.
Posted by: Paul McBride | April 10, 2008 at 11:31
leave it!
Posted by: Colin Maher | April 11, 2008 at 14:03
In the 1960's when I was a student at UCD, I sometimes acted as a tour guide. I remember my pride and pleasure when I showed Liberty Hall to delegates from the eastern bloc countries and explaining to them that it was the only "skyscraper" in Ireland, and that it belonged to the workers of Ireland.
To demolish it would reinforce the (fairly justifiable) reputation that architecture of the 1950's and 1960's was all trash.
Posted by: Tony Cahill | April 21, 2008 at 16:16
Liberty Hall, like her sister, Jerry, is extremely sexy. To tear her down, would be akin to removing the sky.
Posted by: National Disgrace | April 21, 2008 at 16:20
Replace the glass, give the interior a facelift and it will be with us for generations to come.
Posted by: Philip Shanahan | April 22, 2008 at 22:56
Have we not learned from the destruction of Georgian Dublin? Liberty Hall is an iconic monument, it is a symbol of Ireland embracing modernity and it is uniquely Irish. What it need's is restoration not demolition, for goodness sake bring it back to its former glory, restore its non-reflective glass and mosaic tiles and it will be a building every Irish person will be proud of. It is the river dance of the 1960s, when the country under Lemass started to look outward instead of inward, and thus it should be embraced as our country's first major step towards progression.
Posted by: lorraines.smith@gmail.com | May 11, 2009 at 22:38