Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, NATIONAL LIBRARY

Name: DEANE, THOMAS NEWENHAM, & SON
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, NATIONAL LIBRARY
Date: 1885-90
Nature: Cost: £40,000. Builder: Beckett. Dominant influence in design said to be Thomas Manly Deane's.
Refs: Notes by Deane on building of library, 1884, in NLI, MS 10,475; drawing(s) dated 1885 in OPW (former refs. H.11.4, H.7.4); IAA, PKS 0001, 0216, 0650, B14/39, B15/06 (missing), A07 (Oct 1885-Mar 1890, pp.270-271,282,341,343,374);  Irish Times, 20 Apr 1887;   IB 31, 15 Nov 1889, 280(illus.),288; 32, 15 Jul,1 Sep 1890, 175,212; 35, 1 Mar 1893, 54,61(illus.); 46, 31 Dec 1904, 884; Jubilee No. 1909, 29,33; 75, 11 Feb 1933, 97; Frederick O'Dwyer, The Architecture of Deane and Woodward (Cork University Press, 1997), 393-4;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005),479-481 (with plan),Pl.83.

Name: JONES & WILLIS *#
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, NATIONAL LIBRARY
Date: 1890
Nature: Stained-glass windows.
Refs: Irish Times, 30 Aug 1890.

Name: CAMBI, CARLO *#
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, NATIONAL LIBRARY
Date: 1890ca
Nature: Executed 10 chimneypieces to designs by T.N. Deane & Son.
Refs: T.M. Deane portfolio, no. 7396, National Gallery of Ireland; Patricia McCarthy, 'From Torpedo Boat to Temples of Culture: Carlo Cambi's Route to Ireland', Irish Arts Review Yearbook 18 (2002), 75

Name: OPPENHEIMER, LUDWIG, LTD *#
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, NATIONAL LIBRARY
Date: 1890s
Nature: Mosaic floors.
Refs: Information from Robert Field, Swanage, Dorset, Apr 2013

Name: MILLIGAN, JOHN *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, NATIONAL LIBRARY
Date: 1891a
Nature: JM responsible for work in the 'new buildings' in Kildare St, including carving of doors and oak screen in library.
Refs: Copy of estimate for wood carving by Milligan at National Library, 1885, in IAA, PKS 0001; IB 33, 15 Apr 1891, 89;  Irish Times, 30 Aug 1890.

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, NATIONAL LIBRARY
Date: 1924
Nature: Tenders invited by Commissioners of Public Works for erection of new wing, Dec 1924.
Refs: Irish Times, 4 Dec 1924.