In design history discourse, modernity and tradition can be seen as intimately related rather than dichotomous. For example, Michelangelo Sabatino has noted the complex relationship between them in Italian twentieth-century architecture. What was the relationship between modernity and tradition in post-Independence Ireland? One way of investigating this is to consider the design of a quintessentially everyday space: the pub. From the 1930s, many pubs in Cork and Dublin were re-designed through a series of negotiated responses to modernisation. By 1960, this was complicated by the construction of what we would recognize as interiors designed to appeal to an imagined tourist vision of the pub in Ireland. This article argues that these changes were design responses to three interlinked historical forces: modernization, the retention or invention of vernacular design, and the influence of international trade and tourism. This considerably complicates our understanding of Irish modernism and illustrates that, for the public house in Ireland at least, British design was a dominant influence.

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“与传统相融合的现代气息”：白话现代主义与科克和都柏林公共住宅的设计，1934-1969

在设计史话语中，现代性和传统可以被视为密切相关而不是二分法。例如，米开朗基罗·萨巴蒂诺（Michelangelo Sabatino）在意大利 20 世纪建筑中注意到了它们之间的复杂关系。爱尔兰独立后的现代性与传统之间的关系是什么？对此进行调查的一种方法是考虑设计一个典型的日常空间：酒吧。从 1930 年代起，科克和都柏林的许多酒吧都通过一系列协商后的现代化措施进行了重新设计。到了 1960 年，由于我们所认为的室内设计旨在吸引爱尔兰酒吧的想象中的旅游愿景，这使情况变得复杂。本文认为，这些变化是对三种相互关联的历史力量的设计回应：现代化、本土设计的保留或发明，以及国际贸易和旅游业的影响。这大大复杂化了我们对爱尔兰现代主义的理解，并说明至少对于爱尔兰的公共场所来说，英国的设计是一种主要影响。