Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. TIPPERARY, CLONMEL, RITZ CINEMA

Name: SCOTT, MICHAEL JOHN
Building: CO. TIPPERARY, CLONMEL, RITZ CINEMA
Date: 1939-1940
Nature: New cinema in International Modern style. Rapidly approaching completion in Mar 1940. General Contractors: Roche, Morrissey & Kennedy, Clonmel. Carved wooden figures on either side of proscenium arch by Lawrence Campbell, RHA.
Refs: IB 82, 16 Mar 1940, 163; John O'Regan & Nicola Dearey, eds., Michael Scott Architect in (casual) conversation with Dorothy Walker (1995), 83-85(illus.),233;  Paul Larmour, Free State Architecture:  Modern Movement architecture in Ireland, 1922-1949 (Kinsale: Gandon Editions, 2009), 61(illus., from IB, Mar 1940).