Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Civil engineer and patent agent, of Dublin. James Angelo Fahie was the second of the four sons of JAMES KEYES FAHIE JAMES KEYES FAHIE . He studied engineering from 1862 to 1865 and then spent three years at the Millwall Ironworks, Shipbuilding and Graving Docks in London. In about 1872 he set up in practice as a patent agent and consulting engineer in Dublin. Soon afterwards he formed a partnership with his father, who had been in the United States. He was a Justice of the Peace from 1896 or earlier.

ICEI: elected associate, 7 February 1877;(1) awarded Mullins Silver Medal 12 December 1883 for his paper, 'Electro-Dynamo and Magneto-Dynamo Machines';(2) had ceased to be an associate by 1898.

Addresses: Work: 2 Nassau Street, 1875-1884; 10 Leinster Street, 1885-1886; 9 Westland Row, <=1889->=1900.
Home: 27 Northumberland Avenue, Kingstown, 1873; 23 Leinster Square, Rathmines, <=1875->=1885; 11 Prince of Wales Terrace, Ballsbridge, 1886; 11 Elma Terrace, Ballsbridge, 1889; 4 Eaton Place, Monkstown, <=1894->=1900.

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References

All information in this entry not otherwise accounted for is from a letter to E. McParland from Fahie's niece, Norah Fahie, 47 Ailesbury Road, Dublin, 15 Jan 1973, from ICEI membership applications, II, 46, and from the Post Office and Thom's directories or Jones's transcripts from the latter.

(1) TICEI 12 (1876-1879), 26.
(2) TICEI 15 (1883-4), 30,125.


Author Title Date Details
Fahie, James Angelo 'On a new system of wood pavement' 1879 TICEI 12 (1766-79), 46-57. (Paper read 9 May 1877.)
Fahie, James Angelo 'Magneto-Electric and Dynamo-Electric Machines' 1882;1883 IB 24, 15 Dec 1882, 356-8; TICEI 14 (1882-3), 146-180.
Fahie, James Angelo 'Operating railway facing points, safety bars and sequals' 1887 TICEI 18 (1886-7), 19-28