For more than 50 years Lucan House has been the official residence of the Italian Ambassador to Ireland. Lucan House is one of the principal Georgian houses in the country which is still being used as a family residence and not as a museum. With its inspiration to the classical world, both Roman and Greek, not only its architecture (which is in the Palladian style) but also its antique furnishings of the late 1700, when the construction was completed, Lucan House is therefore the ideal meeting point between the Italian culture and the Irish world.

As a result the residence of the Italian Ambassador (which is one of the most beautiful Italian residences abroad and certainly one of the most important residences of foreign Ambassadors to Ireland) has become a place of attraction for tourists, visitors and researchers, both Italian and Irish, contributing to the knowledge and the promotion of Lucan and the Liffey Valley.