Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, CORK, ALBERT QUAY, CITY HALL (NEW)

Name: BYRNE, RALPH HENRY
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, ALBERT QUAY, CITY HALL (NEW)
Date: 1923
Nature: Placed third in competition won by Jones & Kelly.
Refs: IB 65, 30 Jun 1923, 485; AJ 58, 29 Aug 1923, 330

Name: KELLY, VINCENT
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, ALBERT QUAY, CITY HALL (NEW)
Date: 1923
Nature: Commended entrant in competition won by Jones & Kelly. Assessor: Lucius O'Callaghan.
Refs: IB 65, 30 Jun 1923, 485

Name: MCDONNELL & DIXON
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, ALBERT QUAY, CITY HALL (NEW)
Date: 1923
Nature: McD & D placed 2nd in competition won by Jones & Kelly. Assessor: Lucius O'Callaghan.
Refs: IB 65, 30 Jun 1923, 485; AJ 58, 29 Aug 1923, 330

Name: O'FLYNN & O'CONNOR
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, ALBERT QUAY, CITY HALL (NEW)
Date: 1923
Nature: Entrants in competition won by Jones & Kelly. Assessor: Lucius O'Callaghan.
Refs: RHA 1924, nos. 255-257

Name: JONES & KELLY
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, ALBERT QUAY, CITY HALL (NEW)
Date: 1923;1932-35
Nature: Jones & Kelly win competition 1923.(Assessor: Lucius O'Callaghan) Tenders invited Nov 1924 and again Jan 1932. Estimated cost by 1932 £139,870. FS laid by President De Valera 29 Jun 1932. First meeting held, 23 Apr 1935, when only municipal offices section had been completed and work on other portionwas expected to continue for some months. Contractor: John Sisk, Cork.
Refs: IB 64, 18 Nov 1922, 797; 65, 10 Feb,2,30 Jun,28 Jul,11 Aug 1923, 110,147,401,485,565,589,609; 66, 15 Nov,13 Dec,27 Dec 1924, 982,1058,1096(illus.); 71, 13,27 Apr 1929, 330,386; 73, 1 Aug,7 Nov,19 Dec 1931, 685,974,1103,1085; 74, 12 Mar,23 Apr,4 Jun,16 Jul 1932, 390,506,642; 77, 27 Jul,10 Aug 1935, 662(illus.),694(illus.); B 125, 24 Aug 1923, 281,284,286,287(illus.); 127, 21 Nov 1924, 835; AJ 58, 29 Aug 1923, 330(illus.);  Irish Times, 6 Nov 1924. 24 Apr 1935;  Architect & Building News 129, 1 Jan 1932, 22; Capuchin Annual 12 (1941), 10; (1960), 38(illus.);  Roger Herlihy, A Walk through the South Parish (Cork: Red Abbey Publications, 2010), 33-34(illus.);   Building a Business: 150 Years of the Sisk Group, ed. by Madeleine Lyons (Dublin:  Associated Editions, 2009), 19(illus.),36(illus.),56-57(illus.).