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Georgian Dublin refers to the elegant 18th-century residential core of the city, best represented by the sweeping terraces of Fitzwilliam Square and Merrion Square. These streets showcase Dublin's golden age of architecture — uniform redbrick facades with distinctive coloured doors and ornate fanlights.
Dublin's Georgian expansion was driven by the Wide Streets Commission (1757) and peaked before the Act of Union in 1800, which moved political power to London and began the city's 19th-century decline. Many houses were subdivided into tenements before mid-20th-century restoration.