Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET LOWER, NO. 010-11 (MUNSTER & LEINSTER BANK)
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 |