Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

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.