Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Stonecutter and building contractor, of Templemore, Co. Tipperary. Joseph Bracken was the second of the the ten children of PATRICK BRACKEN PATRICK BRACKEN , stonecutter, of Templemore.  He became manager of his father's stonecutting  business, which he expanded to include building and road contracting, the opening of a quarry in Templemore and building yards in Clonmel and Tipperary.  According to the Dictionary of Irish Biography the firm was responsible for Kilmallock Catholic church, an extension to St Flannan's College, Ennis, the 1798 memorial  in Clonmel and the Manchester Martyrs memorial in Kilrush.  He died from cancer on 2 May 1904, aged only fifty-two.  He was married twice:, first to Agnes Matthes from Limerick, by whom he had two daughters, and second to Hannah Ryan from Borrisoleigh, by whom he had a further four children, one of whom was the politician Brendan Brack.   Joseph Bracken himself was politically active, a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and the Irish National Alliance.   He was a founder member of the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1884 and one of its moving spirits in its early years.

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All information in this entry is from the entry on Bracken in  Dictionary of Irish Biography, ed. by James McGuire and James Quinn, 9 vols. (Cambridge University Press, 2009), I, 756-7.


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Building: CO. TIPPERARY, CLONMEL, PARNELL STREET, 1798 MEMORIAL
Date: ?
Nature: 'Examples of the firm's design and work include... the 1798 memorial in Clonmel...'.
Refs: Entry by Nancy Murphy in Dictionary of Irish Biography, ed. by James McGuire and James Quinn, 9 vols. (Cambridge University Press, 2009), I, 757;  illus. in Irish War Memorials, www.irishwarmemorials.ie (last visited Jun 2010).

Building: CO. CLARE, KILRUSH, MANCHESTER MARTYRS MEMORIAL
Date: ?
Nature: 'Examples of the firm's design and work include...[the memorial] to the 'Manchester martyrs' in Kilrush.'  (Memorial has statue of the Maid of Erin and portrait medallions of Michael O'Brien, William Philip Allen and Michael Larkin.)
Refs: Entry by Nancy Murphy in Dictionary of Irish Biography, ed. by James McGuire and James Quinn, 9 vols. (Cambridge University Press, 2009), I, 757;  illus. in article on Kilrush in Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org (last visited Jun 2010).

Building: CO. CLARE, ENNIS, LIMERICK ROAD, ST FLANNAN'S DIOCESAN COLLEGE
Date: ?
Nature: 'Examples of the firm's design and work include...an extension to St Flannan's college, Ennis...'.
Refs: Entry by Nancy Murphy in Dictionary of Irish Biography, ed. by James McGuire and James Quinn, 9 vols. (Cambridge University Press, 2009), I, 757.

Building: CO. LIMERICK, KILMALLOCK, CHURCH OF SS PETER & PAUL (RC)
Date: ?
Nature: 'Examples of the firm's design and work include...[the memorial] to the 'Manchester martyrs' in Kilrush.' 
Refs: Entry by Nancy Murphy in Dictionary of Irish Biography, ed. by James McGuire and James Quinn, 9 vols. (Cambridge University Press, 2009), I, 757.