Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL SQUARE, CHARLEMONT HOUSE (MUNICIPAL GALLERY)
Name: | LAWRIE, ROBERT SORLEY # |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL SQUARE, CHARLEMONT HOUSE (MUNICIPAL GALLERY) |
Date: | 1929-33 |
Nature: | Reconstruction to form art gallery, with H.T. O'Rourke, for Dublin Corporation. (Gallery formerly at 17 Harcourt St.); 'mutilation of the facade' by erection of porch condemned by Friends of National Collections as 'piece of vandalism', Feb 1933. Opened, 19 Jun 1933. |
Refs: |
Municipal Gallery of Modern Art and Civic Museum, Dublin' (1933), unpaginated; Irish Times, 7 Nov 1929, 25 Feb 1933, 19 Jun 1933 (illus.), 20mJun 1933, IB 71, 23 Nov 1929, 1057; 73, 21 Nov 1931, 1016; 75, 5 Mar 1933, 225(illus.); Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 149-152. |
Name: | O'ROURKE, HORACE TENNYSON |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL SQUARE, CHARLEMONT HOUSE (MUNICIPAL GALLERY) |
Date: | 1931 |
Nature: | Reconstruction to form art gallery, with R.S. Lawrie, for Dublin Corporation. |
Refs: | Municipal Gallery of Modern Art and Civic Museum, Dublin' (1933), unpaginated; Irish Times, 7 Nov 1929; IB IB 71, 23 Nov 1929, 1057; 73, 21 Nov 1931, 1016; 75, 5 Mar 1933, 225(illus.); Architect & Buildng News 125, 16 Jan 1931, 132; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 149-152. |