It should no doubt interest a few of our readers to hear that the roof of Liberty Hall is open to Joe Public tomorrow. The view is excellent, and completely destroys the myth that the Guinness Storehouse offers the best view of the city. It’s open to the public from 10am to 1pm, and there is disabled access. I got up myself a few years ago when Siptu opened the roof to the public to mark May Day, and thought the view was well worth the trip.
It’s all thanks to the Open House Dublin Festival, celebrating the architecture of the city.
Here are two videos on YouTube from the roof, taken by YouTuber thebettyfordclinic
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Donal
Ciarán
Sam
Come Here To Me! 
View of Liberty Hall from the top of Nelson’s pillar 🙂
If you go to the top floor pavilion of Liberty Hall have a look out for my handiwork in the colourful mosaic tiles on the underside. During my summer school holidays in 1963 I worked with several other students on an assembly line in Donnelly’s Coal shed on the South Wall preparing the mosaic tiles for Liberty Hall. We worked weekdays 8am to 6pm, Saturday mornings, and got regular overtime. A Milk Bar on the quays supplied up with bottles of milk and fresh gur cake for our breaks. The ceramic mosaic tiles were imported from Italy by Irish Mosaics Ltd. of Roscommon. We sat a bench each with a square steel frame, divided into 100 small compartments each about 30mm square, into which we placed about 10 lines of 10 tiles face up. Apart from the multi coloured mosaic tiling on the underside of its roof pavilion most of the tiles for Liberty Hall on its exterior walls were white except for one line of black. When all 100 tiles had been inserted into the frame we glued a square sheet of brown paper about 300mm square to the face of the tiles and rolled the paper sheet to ensure that it adhered to all tiles, and then placed them on a shelf to dry. When dry the sheets of tiles were packed into boxes to be taken to the construction site at Liberty Hall where tilers would attach them into mortar on the walls of the building. When I last looked at Liberty Hall I noticed that several tiles had fallen away, probably due to weathering since it opened in 1965.
Cheers, as always, for the contributions Donal.