Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. TIPPERARY, NENAGH, TYONE, GENERAL HOSPITAL

Name: KELLY, VINCENT
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, NENAGH, TYONE, GENERAL HOSPITAL
Date: 1933-1936
Nature: New hospital. VK prepares sketch plans, working drawings and specifications, 1933. Tenders invited Apr 1934. Opened, Sep 1936. Nurses' home at rear. Contractor (for nurses' home) Samuel Phillips, Dublin.
Refs: Clonmel Nationalist, 19 Aug 1933;  advertisement for tenders, 14 Apr 1934, articles from Irish Times, 31 Sep 1936 (illus.), 1 Oct 1936,  Irish Independent , 1 Oct 1936(illus.), Irish Press, 1 Oct 1936(illus.) and loose photograph of ward block, 1935, in IAA, in Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100   IB 78, 5 Sep 1936; ?(illus.); 81,  2 Sep 1939, 739(illus.),741(illus.);  F. O'Dwyer, Irish Hospital Architecture: a pictorial history (1997), 19,Pl. 94;  Paul Larmour, Free State Architecture:  Modern Movement architecture in Ireland, 1922-1949 (Kinsale: Gandon Editions, 2009) , 34-35(illus.).