Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ECCLES STREET, MATER MISERICORDIAE HOSPITAL

Name: BOURKE, JOHN [2]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ECCLES STREET, MATER MISERICORDIAE HOSPITAL
Date: 1855-1861
Nature: New hospital for Sisters of Mercy. FS laid by Archbishop Cullen, 24 Sep 1855. Contractor.  John Brady.  Opened 24 Sep 1861.
Refs: B 13, 13 Oct 1855, 486; 16, 30 Oct 1858, 723; DB 3, 1 Oct 1861, 647; IB 40, 15 Jan 1898, 14;  Weekly Irish Times, 25 Feb 1911;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 281-2.


Name: ROBINSON, JOHN LOFTUS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ECCLES STREET, MATER MISERICORDIAE HOSPITAL
Date: 1884-1886;1893
Nature: New wing and new chapel. Dedicated 24 Oct 1886. Contractor: Richard Toole, 21 Upper Dorset St.. Designs for oratory, &c. 1893.
Refs: Design exh RHA 1885, no. 539; IAA, PKS B12/22, B13/21, A07, pp.148,149,150 (Jul 1884-Nov 1886); IB 28, 1 Nov 1886, 300; diary of JLR Jun-Jul 1893 (photocopy in IAA, Acc. 2006/011); obituary in Building News 67, 19 Oct 1894, 554;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 281-2.


Name: MCCARTHY & ANDERSON
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ECCLES STREET, MATER MISERICORDIAE HOSPITAL
Date: 1905
Nature: Extensive system of drainage and plumbing. Contractor: William Beard, Lower Abbey St.
Refs: IB 47, 17 Jun 1905, 422; 47, 14 Jan 1905, 8

Name: BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY, & SON
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ECCLES STREET, MATER MISERICORDIAE HOSPITAL
Date: 1910ca?
Nature: 2 South-facing neo-Georgian blocks
Refs: Drawings, 1910ca?, formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son

Name: BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY, & SON
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ECCLES STREET, MATER MISERICORDIAE HOSPITAL
Date: 1916
Nature: Works at same.
Refs: IB 58, ? ? 1916, 165

Name: BYRNE, RALPH HENRY
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ECCLES STREET, MATER MISERICORDIAE HOSPITAL
Date: 1920-21;1924;1925;1931-32;1937
Nature: Additions to hospital, private hospital and nurses' home. Completion of chapel, 1937.
Refs: Designs, dated 1922ca, in IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc.2006/142; IB 62, 11 Sep 1920, 581; 63, 2 Jul 1921, 458; 66, 1924, 770; 71, 1929, 106; 73, 1931, 685,763,1016; 74, 1932, 611; 77, 1935, 269,899;  Irish Times, 9 Apr 1925; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 282.

Name: MURPHY, PATRICK J. *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ECCLES STREET, MATER MISERICORDIAE HOSPITAL
Date: ?
Nature: 'His last energies were devoted to the erection of the new wing of the Mater Misericordiae Hospital  which will long remain an enduring proof of his capabilities as a builder'.
Refs: Obituary of PJM in Freeman's Journal, 30 Mar 1871 (also in IB 13, 1 Apr 1971, ?).