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Modernist Mausoleum or Masterpiece? The US Embassy in Ballsbridge (With Cormac Murray)

Modernist Mausoleum or Masterpiece? The US Embassy in Ballsbridge (With Cormac Murray)

Update: 2025-11-301
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Cormac Murray is the author of a new study of the US Embassy in Ballsbridge. A visual feast, it explores one of Dublin's most unusual buildings in its architectural, social, cultural and political contexts. The work of John M. Johansen,described as "a Neoclassical Modernist", the building was something of a never-ending saga. In an edition of just 400, the study is available from Phibsboro Press

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Modernist Mausoleum or Masterpiece? The US Embassy in Ballsbridge (With Cormac Murray)

Modernist Mausoleum or Masterpiece? The US Embassy in Ballsbridge (With Cormac Murray)