Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET LOWER, NO. 010-11 (MUNSTER & LEINSTER BANK)  Street numbers may have changed due to re-numbering

Name: MCDONNELL, LAURENCE ALOYSIUS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET LOWER, NO. 010-11 (MUNSTER & LEINSTER BANK)
Date: 1916-19
Nature: New bank premises in 'free Classic style' on corner of Lr Abbey St in destroyed area . (Originally proposed for 20 Sackville St Upr?) Cost: £20,000. Contractor: H. & J. Martin. Opened 17 Dec 1919.
Refs: IB 58, 10 Jun 1916, 259; 59, 3,17 Mar,28 Apr,29 Sep 1917, 101,125,207,493; 60, 20 Jul 1918, 368; 62, 3 Jan 1920, 1,7;  Irish Times, 17 Dec 1919, 5 Oct 1922(illus.);  Building News 112, 2 May 1917, 389;  Freeman's Journal, 17 Dec 1919; description in  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 217-18, Pl.92, who dates it (surely wrongly) to 1922.


Name: POWER, ALBERT GEORGE *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET LOWER, NO. 010-11 (MUNSTER & LEINSTER BANK)
Date: 1919a
Nature: Relief over main entrance and series of heads on upper facade.
Refs: IB 61, 3 May 1919, 205; Theo Snoddy, Dictionary of Irish Artists: 20th Century (1996), 398; Sighle Bhreathnach-Lynch, 'Albert Power RHA', Irish Arts Review Yearbook 1990-1991, 113; 
illus. in Dara O' Conaola Saol agus Saothar: Albert Power (Ceardshiopa Inis Oirr Teo, 19, 1996), 45. .

Name: MCDONNELL & DIXON
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET LOWER, NO. 010-11 (MUNSTER & LEINSTER BANK)
Date: 1924-25
Nature: Extension into 39 Abbey St.  Plans approved by City Architect, Oct 1924.
Refs: Irish Times, 6 Nov 1924;   IB 66, 29 Nov 1924, 1017; 67, 7 Feb 1925, 105

Name: MCDONNELL & DIXON
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET LOWER, NO. 010-11 (MUNSTER & LEINSTER BANK)
Date: 1954
Nature: Alts. Contractor: Maher & Murphy.
Refs: IAA, PKS 0578, 1039; IB 96, 31 Jul 1954, 749