The Decorative and Building Stones of Dublin documents over 170 stone types used to build Ireland’s capital. It focuses on both historic and less notable buildings, as well as monuments, and illuminates the work of the quarrymen, craftspeople, building contractors and architects who constructed and designed them.

The book is an output of the project STONEBUILT Ireland, based at Trinity (see the project website www.stonebuiltireland.com), which has been generously grant-aided by Taighde Éireann – Research Ireland (via its former Irish Research Council  COALESCE scheme, 2019-20), the Geological Survey Ireland (2020-27), and the Office of Public Works (2020-27).

Prof. Wyse Jackson is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, and Professor in Geology and Curator of the Geological Museum in Trinity, where he carries out research on dimension and decorative stone on the STONEBUILT Ireland project. He also has interests in fossil bryozoans and the history of geology in Ireland.

Dr Caulfield completed her undergraduate degree in geology before an MSc in environmental sciences at Trinity. She received a PhD from Trinity for her research on the exploitation of decorative stone in Victorian Ireland. She was a research assistant on the Making Victorian Dublin project and now carries out research for the STONEBUILT Ireland project.