In this book Michael Fewer takes an imaginative look at how the idea of the entrance to a building has been dealt with by the builders, designers & craftsmen of Ireland from the earliest times until the present day. The doors he examines range from the humblest to the most impressive & from the architecturally significant to the whimsical, from the Seefin cairn at Kilbride, County Wicklow, dating from 3000 BC, to the eighteenth-century doors of Merrion Square, Dublin, &, coming right up to date, the doors of the National Gallery's Millennium Wing & the Derry City Council Offices.