Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ADELAIDE ROAD, ROYAL VICTORIA EYE & EAR HOSPITAL

Name: CARROLL & BATCHELOR
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ADELAIDE ROAD, ROYAL VICTORIA EYE & EAR HOSPITAL
Date: 1901-1906
Nature: New hospital (Carroll & Batchelor appointed architects, Sep 1899). Contractor: J. & P. Good. Cost: £41,862.  Walls generally up to the ground floor by Nov 1901 and up to level of 1st floor by Mar 1902
Refs: 7 contract drawings in IAA, Alan Hope Collection, Acc. 86/127, folder L00034; IAA, PKS 1228, B19/43, B20/36, A08 (Feb 1901);  Irish Times, 22 Sep 1899, 21 Nov 1901, 21 Mar 1902;  IB 42, 15 Apr 1900, 334; 43, 13 Feb,27 Mar,4 Jul,18 Jul 1901, 624,673,791(illus.),799; 44, 16 Jan,30 Jan,3 Jun 1902, 999,1020,1299; E. Macdowel Cosgrave, ed., Dublin and County Dublin in the Twentieth Century (1908), 264; E. O'Brien & A. Crookshank, A Portrait of Irish Medicine, (1984), 253-256(illus.); see also BATCHELOR & HICKS

Name: BATCHELOR & HICKS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ADELAIDE ROAD, ROYAL VICTORIA EYE & EAR HOSPITAL
Date: 1907-1908;1912;
Nature: Outpatients department; sanitary block; W. Wing extension; new wing
Refs: Design for addition, 1912, and undated design for proposed new wing, 1912, in IAA, Alan Hope Collection, Acc. 87/127, S 00155;  IAA, PKS 0013, 0014, 1234, B21/23, A08 (Nov 1907, Aug 1908), A09 (Jun 1912); Irish Times, 22 Feb 1907;  IB 49, 30 Nov 1907, 829; 51, 20 Mar 1909, 177; 54, 22 Jun 1912, 379; 55, 19 Jul 1913, 475; 67, 2 May 1925, 325;  Freeman's Journal, 22 Aug 1908.

Name: POWER, ALBERT GEORGE *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ADELAIDE ROAD, ROYAL VICTORIA EYE & EAR HOSPITAL
Date: 1915
Nature: Bronze relief of Sir Henry Rosborough Swanzy in stair hall, 1915.
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 491.

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ADELAIDE ROAD, ROYAL VICTORIA EYE & EAR HOSPITAL
Date: 1925
Nature: 'Judgment in a law case in the High Court directs that the sum of £22,000 is to be expended in completing the Royal victoria Eye and Ear Hospital by building a new wing..  The testatrix had  instructed the expenditure of £80,000 on building a new hospital, but through subject litigation, the sum available was reduced to £22,000.  the new wing will be known as the Harvey Lewis Memorial Wing.'
Refs: Irish Times, 26 Mar 1925.

Name: HICKEY, CHARLES *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ADELAIDE ROAD, ROYAL VICTORIA EYE & EAR HOSPITAL
Date: 1932
Nature: £57,000 to be spent on improvements. FGH architect.
Refs: IB 74, 2 July 1932, 611

Name: HICKS, FREDERICK GEORGE
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ADELAIDE ROAD, ROYAL VICTORIA EYE & EAR HOSPITAL
Date: 1937
Nature: Adds. & alts., with Vincent Kelly.
Refs: Advertisement for tenders,14 Oct 1937, in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100.

Name: KELLY, VINCENT
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ADELAIDE ROAD, ROYAL VICTORIA EYE & EAR HOSPITAL
Date: 1937;1939
Nature: Adds. & alts., with F.G. Hicks. Tenders invited, Oct 1937. Tenders invited for renewal of drainage system, Apr 1939. Tenders invited for entrance drive, gates, railings, Aug 1939.
Refs: Advertisements for tenders, 14 Oct 1937, Apr 1939, 21 Aug 1939, in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100.

Name: HOPE, ALAN HODGSON
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ADELAIDE ROAD, ROYAL VICTORIA EYE & EAR HOSPITAL
Date: 1949
Nature: External painting.
Refs: IB 91, 11 Jun 1949, 550

Name: HOPE, ALAN HODGSON
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ADELAIDE ROAD, ROYAL VICTORIA EYE & EAR HOSPITAL
Date: 1959-61
Nature: Graham audiology clinic, opened 1 Jun 1961, designed by AH.
Refs: IB 101, 8 Aug 1959, 571; Irish Times, 2 Jun 1961;

Name: HOPE, ALAN HODGSON
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ADELAIDE ROAD, ROYAL VICTORIA EYE & EAR HOSPITAL
Date: 1963
Nature: Alts.
Refs: IB 105, 1 Feb 1963, 19