Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILLESTER, HOUSING SCHEME

Name: MEARS, FRANK CHARLES (SIR) #
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILLESTER, HOUSING SCHEME
Date: 1920
Nature: Housing scheme of 247 houses for ex-servicemen, for Board of Public Works
Refs: www.scottisharchitects.org.uk, citing RIBA nomination papers in RIBA Archive, Victoria & Albert Museum; F.H.A. Aalen, 'Homes for Irish heroes: housing under the Irish Land (Provision for Soldiers and Sailors) Act 1919, and the Irish Sailors' and Soldiers' Land Trust', Town Planning Review 59, no. 3, July 1988, 312-317(illus.).