Patrick Honohan: Financial sector developments and architecture in Ireland – a constantly changing landscape Address by Mr Patrick Honohan, Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland, at the launch of the book “Bank architecture in Dublin – a history to c 1940” by Dr Michael O’Neill, Dublin, 7 February 2012.
*  *  *  Bank buildings in the 19th and 20th Centuries were everywhere designed to project confidence. As Michael O’Neill observes in this delightful book, the grand bank buildings which represent such an important component of Victorian Dublin were establishments “built as statements of intent...like churches, they suggest permanence, stability, longevity”.