Liberty Hall

Liberty Hall
Halla na Saoirse
Liberty Hall, the headquarters of SIPTU
Liberty Hall is located in Central Dublin
Liberty Hall
Location of Liberty Hall in central Dublin
General information
StatusCompleted
Architectural styleInternational Style[1]
AddressEden Quay
Town or cityDublin, Ireland
Coordinates53°20′54″N 6°15′19″W / 53.3483°N 6.25527°W / 53.3483; -6.25527
Construction started1961 (1961)
Completed1965 (1965)
AffiliationThe headquarters of the Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union
Height
Tip59.4 m (195 ft)[2]
Technical details
Floor count16 excluding ground floor
Design and construction
Architect(s)Desmond Rea O'Kelly
Known forDublin's fifth tallest storeyed building and Ireland’s first tall building

Liberty Hall (Irish: Halla na Saoirse), in Dublin, Ireland, is the headquarters of the Services, Industrial, Professional, and Technical Union (SIPTU). Designed by Desmond Rea O'Kelly, it was completed in 1965. It was for a time the tallest building in the country, at 59.4 meters, (195 feet) high[3] until it was superseded by the County Hall in Cork city, which was itself superseded by The Elysian in Cork. Liberty Hall is now the fifth tallest building in Dublin, after Capital Dock, the Exo Building, Montevetro (now Google Docks) and the Millennium Tower in Grand Canal Dock.

Liberty Hall is more historically significant in its earlier form, as the headquarters of the Irish Transport and General Workers Union early in the 20th century, and also as the headquarters of the Irish Citizen Army (ICA).

  1. ^ "Liberty Hall, Eden Quay, Beresford Place, Dublin, DUBLIN". Buildings of Ireland. The National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Retrieved 3 May 2022.
  2. ^ "Liberty Hall - The Skyscraper Center". www.skyscrapercenter.com.
  3. ^ "Dublin Skyscraper Diagram - SkyscraperPage.com". skyscraperpage.com.