Full Irish:
New Architecture in Ireland
Sarah A. Lappin

From Georgian cities to modernist masterpieces, architecture in Ireland has a long history of excellence. The last fifteen years, however,ÊwitnessedÊmore social, economic, and cultural change than any previous period on the island, leaving a dramatic mark on the country's architecture. A new commitment to design quality by developers and a series of government-sponsored competitions to design new civic buildings enabled Ireland to become for the first time a net importer of architectural talent. These architects, from disparate cultures and design backgrounds, filled Ireland's landscape with modern architectural masterworks, from small private homes to large community centers.

In Full Irish author Sarah A. Lappin examines the nature of twenty-first-century Irish architectural identity as it develops its own progressive, contemporary idiom. Illustrated with color photographs and drawings, Full Irish includes more than seventy projects from Ireland's leading firms as well as its up-and-coming designers: Boyd Cody, Alan Jones, de Blacam and Meagher, Bucholz McEvoy, de Paor Architects, FKL Architects, Dominic Stevens, Grafton Architects, Henchion+Reuter, Hackett Hall McKnight, Heneghan.Peng, McCullough Mulvin, Hassett + Ducatez, MacGabhann Architects, O'Donnell + Tuomey, and ODOS Architects.


Born and educated in the United States, Sarah A. Lappin moved to Northern Ireland in 1998, where she continues to practice as an architect. She is a lecturer at the School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering at Queens University in Belfast.
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Editorial Reviews

Out Now, Learning Architecture:
"Last night I had the pleasure of attending the launch of QUB faculty member Sarah Lappins new book Full Irish: New Architecture in Ireland at PLACE, the Architecture and Built Environment Centre for Northern Ireland. Its a beautifully written and designed volume published by Princeton Architectural Press in the same series as Bart Lootsmas seminal Superdutch: New Architecture in the Netherlands, and will make an excellent stocking filler for the architect in your life. Click HERE to read the entire review on learningarchitecture.wordpress.com" — James Benedict Brown (December 16, 2009)

Architecture Week:
"Full Irish featured in Architecture Week To read an excerpt at architectureweek.com click HERE. " (March 10, 2010)

Which Way Design: Seven Telling Events for the Fall, Fast Company:
"Ireland's unlikely transformation over the past ten years into an economic powerhouse is playing out in the field of architecture and design. Young designers like Boyd Cody and Dominic Stevens who might have once left the country to pursue careers in London and New York are now opening sudios in Dublin and other Irish cities and pursuing commissions from the country's wealthy new patrons. Is Ireland turning into a design center? Some of the country's best new work is shown in Full Irish: New Architecture in Ireland by Sarah A. Lappin." — Michael Cannell (September 3, 2009)

The Architecture Shelf, The Midwest Book Review:
"Ireland is just a land of poets and pubs and historic manor houses. It is also home to some of the best modern architectural structures that Europe has seen in the past two decades and which is documented in Full Irish: New Architecture in Ireland by architect Sarah A. Lappin (who is also currently a lecturer at the School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering at Queens university in Belfast, Ireland). Full Irish is a 240-page compenium of contemporary Irish architecture enhanced with the inclusion of 250 color illustrations along with 15 B/W images and a number of architectural diagrams. Sixteen distinguished architects and architectural firms have their works showcased and include a wide range of 21st century commercial, institutional, and residential structures. Informed and informative, Full Irish: New Architecture in Ireland will prove a welcome and invaluable addition to professional and academic library Contemporary Architectural studies reference collections and supplemental reading lists. " — James A. Cox

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