Blueprint for €60m overhaul of Parnell Square into cultural quarter

Plans have been unveiled for a €60m cultural quarter in one of Dublin’s finest Georgian squares.

A new city library will be the centrepiece of the redevelopment of Parnell Square, at the head of the capital’s main thoroughfare O’Connell St, under the proposals.

Dublin City Council said that Beverly Hills-based property investment company Kennedy Wilson was donating €2.5m “on a philanthropic basis” to get the project off the ground.