Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, BLACKROCK, AVOCA AVENUE, STREAMWOOD (ALIAS GIRNIGOE)

Name: MACMANUS, FREDERICK EDWARD BRADSHAW
Building: CO. DUBLIN, BLACKROCK, AVOCA AVENUE, STREAMWOOD (ALIAS GIRNIGOE)
Date: 1937
Nature: New international-style house on N side of road, For W.N. Crawford. Supervising architect: Cyril Harrington. Contractor: M.J. Fitzpatrick, Ltd.
Refs: Working drawing in Victoria & Albert Museum, RIBA Drawings Collection, PA859/2, see British Architectural Liobrary Catalogue, http://riba.sirsidynix.net.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/I3sxIJlAIW/MAIN_CAT/320480069/9 (last visited, Apr 2009);  information from photocopy of MacManus's RIBA fellowship candidature papers, 10 Jun 1943, in Jones file Mc98; IB 81, 15 Apr 1939, 299(illus.); AJ 89, 22 Jun 1939, 1083; Sean Rothery, Ireland and the New Architecture 1900-1940 (1991), 197-8;  Paul Larmour, Free State Architecture:  Modern Movement architecture in Ireland, 1922-1949 (Kinsale: Gandon Editions, 2009), 46,47(illus.).