Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHURCH STREET, FATHER MATHEW MEMORIAL HALL

Name: DOOLIN, WALTER GLYNN
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHURCH STREET, FATHER MATHEW MEMORIAL HALL
Date: 1890;1900-01
Nature: New hall.  Opened by Archbishop Walsh, 25 Jan 1891. Builder, Joseph Kelly & Son, Thomas St. New wing, 1900-1902, builder, Pat Hanway. (Fibrous plaster proscenium arch (1909) by John Ryan, Upper Abbey St to design of A. Scott of Wm. Connolly & Son, O'Connell St.)
Refs: Designs exh. RHA 1891, no. 494, 1896, no. 433; IB 32, 15 Feb,15 Apr,1 May 1890, 47,92,93(illus.),102; 42, 1 Aug,1 Sep 1900, 444,474; 43, 30 Jan 1901, 607; 44, 30 Jan 1902, 1020(?or 1026);  Irish Times, 26 JaN 1891;  B 60, 7 Feb 1891, 114; 111-112; Gearoid Crookes, 'The Career and Architectural Works of Walter G. Doolin (1850-1902)', unpublished M.A. thesis, University College Dublin, 1987, Fig.7:12; information on proscenium arch from Emmeline Henderson, Historic Heart of Dublin, citing Father Mathew Centenary (or Father Mathew Union?) 30th Annual Report and Statement of Accounts;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 251-2.

Name: BARNES, H.G. *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHURCH STREET, FATHER MATHEW MEMORIAL HALL
Date: 1896
Nature: Memorial tablet to Fr. Columbus
Refs: IB 38(1896)68

Name: SCOTT, ANTHONY
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHURCH STREET, FATHER MATHEW MEMORIAL HALL
Date: 1909
Nature: Extension. Opened by Lord Mayor, 10 Oct 1909. Contractor: W. Connolly & Son, Upper Dominick St. (According to Casey, extension designed by C.J. McCarthy and only proscenium arch designed by Scott.)
Refs: IB 51, 20 Mar,16 Oct 1909, 161,178,661;  Freeman's Journal, 11 Oct 1909;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 251.