Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BULL ALLEY, IVEAGH PLAY CENTRE

Name: KAYE-PARRY & ROSS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BULL ALLEY, IVEAGH PLAY CENTRE
Date: 1911
Nature: Competition entrants.
Refs: IB 53, 27 May 1911, 353

Name: BATCHELOR & HICKS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BULL ALLEY, IVEAGH PLAY CENTRE
Date: 1911
Nature: Competition entrants. Hicks exhibits design at RHA 1912.
Refs: IB 53, 27 May 1911, 353; RHA 1912 (no. 313)

Name: MCDONNELL & REID
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BULL ALLEY, IVEAGH PLAY CENTRE
Date: 1911-1915
Nature: M & R win competition for designing same. Work started Oct 1911. Front of Ballyknockan granite & Kingscourt bricks. Opened May 1915. Builder: McLaughlin & Harvey. Cost: £35,000.
Refs: Drawings in IAA: Iveagh Trust Architectural Drawings Collection (2013/90); McDonnell and Dixon Collection (2008/81 CLOSED) and 98/41. See also IB 53, 28 Oct,27 May,10 Jun,28 Oct 1911, 341,353,390(illus. in supplement),725; 54, 16 Mar,26 Oct 1912, 163,166(illus.),601; 57, 8 May 1915, 209; Building News 108, 21 May 1915, 581; F.H.A. Aalen, The Iveagh Trust (Iveagh Trust, Dublin, 1990), 46-48(illus.),51-52(illus.)l;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 654-5, Pl. 90.


Name: HARRISON, CHARLES LLOYD *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BULL ALLEY, IVEAGH PLAY CENTRE
Date: 1913ca
Nature: CLH was reparing models for carving on building at time of his death.
Refs: Obituary of CLH in IB 55, 13 Jun 1913, 411

Name: POWER, ALBERT GEORGE *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BULL ALLEY, IVEAGH PLAY CENTRE
Date: 1915a
Nature: Series of seated cherubs for facade, later removed.
Refs: Theo Snoddy, Dictionary of Irish Artists: 20th Century (1996), 398