Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, FALLS ROAD, ST MARY'S DOMINICAN CONVENT

Name: O'NEILL & BYRNE
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, FALLS ROAD, ST MARY'S DOMINICAN CONVENT
Date: 1868p
Nature: New convent.
Refs: Belfast Morning News, 1 May 1868;  J. O'Laverty, History of the Diocese of Down & Connor II (1880), 441; J.J. Tracey, 'A dissertation on the buildings of John O'Neill and O'Neill and Byrne, architects, 1862-1883', unpublished thesis presented as part of Master of Architecture degree course, Queen's University, Belfast, 1987, 75-6,205-8,figs. 26,27

Name: O'SHEA, JOHN J.
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, FALLS ROAD, ST MARY'S DOMINICAN CONVENT
Date: 1897
Nature: West wing. With E. & J. Byrne.
Refs: IB 61, 3 May 1919, 227; Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 39 (no. 79)

Name: GREGORY, PATRICK (PADRAIG) BERNARD
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, FALLS ROAD, ST MARY'S DOMINICAN CONVENT
Date: 1926
Nature: Extension of John O'Neill's main block of 1868-70.
Refs: IB 68, 1 May 1926, 354; Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 39 (no. 79)

Name: GREGORY, PATRICK (PADRAIG) BERNARD
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, FALLS ROAD, ST MARY'S DOMINICAN CONVENT
Date: 1926-30
Nature: Chapel. Opened 5 Oct 1930. Baldacchino added, 1935.
Refs: Catholic Directory (1931), 634; Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 82(no. 188, illus.)

Name: CLARKE, HARRY *
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, FALLS ROAD, ST MARY'S DOMINICAN CONVENT
Date: 1927
Nature: Rose window in chapel.(But Martin O'Callaghan, Principal of St Mary's College, says there is no rose window in chapel, but that two windows in side wall were said by nuns to be by HC.)
Refs: Nicola Gordon Bowe, David Caron & Michael Wynne, Gazetteer of Irish Stained Glass (Irish Academic Press, 1988), 31

Name: OPPENHEIMER, LUDWIG, LTD *#
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, FALLS ROAD, ST MARY'S DOMINICAN CONVENT
Date: 1930ca
Nature: Celtic style mosaic floor in sanctuary.
Refs: Paul Larmour, Belfast: an illustrated architectural guide (1987), 82 (no.188)