More photos from Dublin in this week’s Thursday Doors. The General Post Office or GPO is the headquarters of An Post, the state-owned provider of Ireland’s postal service. The foundation stone was laid in 1814 and took three years to build. A century later the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising used it as their headquarters and it was almost entirely destroyed in the rebellion, except for its granite facade. A fact I didn’t know till I did some research was that ground rent for the GPO continued to be paid to English and American landlords right up to the 1980s. Let’s take a look inside.
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Jean Reinhardt 
Great doors, and I love that coffered ceiling!
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The ceiling really makes it, Dan.
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Beautiful old wooden doors and lovely Post Office.
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Nice place to sit and people watch, Sheree
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Lovely shots Jean and another vote here for that amazing ceiling. No one does this style anymore…at least not around here.
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Even on a low ceiling that style would make a place look more spacious.
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Yeah, I’ve noticed that in many countries the post offices have a particularly nice style! Humorous that the angle of your image focuses on the feet of those two:) You see a plot?
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Lol, I was taking a photo of the free standing counter, Jesh. I didn’t even see the feet in the shot.
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It’s gorgeous! I love how rich and lovely the wood looks inside it.
Interesting history too!
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Imagine being employed there, what a lovely workplace.
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True!
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Seen general post office door but not knowing about Easter rising then did not pay to go in – trying to reverse my ignorance of Easter rising now!
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My sister was with me and had already taken that tour in the past, so I didn’t do it on that trip. We just went inside the main building, which is free to enter as it’s a post office. I’m still learning new things about the Easter rising as time goes on. It was only a few years ago that I found out forty children died during it. Civilian casualties were not highlighted much in the past but they are an important part of it, too.
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