Join Adrian Le Harivel, former Curator at the National Gallery of Ireland, for this talk.

He became intrigued about this important aspect of streetscape, while walking the city and researching domestic clocks.

There are about 80 public clocks across central Dublin, between the two canals, many easily missed. Dated examples range from 1804 to 2019, with several notable makers.

Time was then local, by community, only standardised when the arrival of railways demanded consistency. Dublin remained 25 minutes behind Greenwich Mean Time, in line with movement of earth around the sun, until Ireland reconciled in 1916. They are frequently decorative, just as well, since many do not tell the right time.

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