Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, TEMPLE STREET NORTH, NO. 013-15 (CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL)  Street numbers may have changed due to re-numbering

Name: BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, TEMPLE STREET NORTH, NO. 013-15 (CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL)
Date: 1884
Nature: Additions, including chapel, for Irish Sisters of Charity. FS of chapel laid, 12 Oct 1884. Contractor: R. Toole, Dorset St Upper..
Refs: Irish Times, 13 Oct 1884; IB 76, 15 Oct 1884, 313; J.J. Tracey, 'A dissertation on the buildings of John O'Neill and O'Neill and Byrne, architects, 1862-1883', unpublished thesis presented as part of Master of Architecture degree course, Queen's University, Belfast, 1987, 43

Name: SHARP, EDMUND *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, TEMPLE STREET NORTH, NO. 013-15 (CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL)
Date: 1900
Nature: Carrara marble high altar ('Our Lord healing the sick children') designed and executed by ES. Contract dated 1900.
Refs: E. Sharp's publicity booklet (1920s), 10,59(illus.); B of I

Name: BYRNE, WILLIAM HENRY, & SON
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, TEMPLE STREET NORTH, NO. 013-15 (CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL)
Date: 1913-1915;1916
Nature: Dispensary, out-patients' dept; proposed classical stuccoing of facade
Refs: IB 55, 19 Jul,2 Aug 1913, 475,502; 56, 1914, 483; 57, 1915, 56,81,98; 58, 1916, 184,578 (illus.); Building News 111, 29 Nov 1916, 516; drawings, 1916, formerly in office archives of W.H. Byrne & Son

Name: BYRNE, RALPH HENRY
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, TEMPLE STREET NORTH, NO. 013-15 (CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL)
Date: 1931-32;1940
Nature: Gymnasium room, hall ceiling, 1931-32; extension, 1940.
Refs: Designs for hall ceiling, dated 1935, in IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc.2006/142;  Irish Times,, 11 Jun23 Jul 1931;    IB 73, ? ? 1931, 685; 74, 2 Jul 1932, 611; 82, ? ? 1940, 320;  Paul Larmour, Free State Architecture:  Modern Movement architecture in Ireland, 1922-1949 (Kinsale: Gandon Editions, 2009),25(illus.),26.

Name: DOWNES & MEEHAN
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, TEMPLE STREET NORTH, NO. 013-15 (CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL)
Date: 1959
Nature: Speech therapy unit.
Refs: IB 101, 28 Nov 1959, 885

Name: ROBINSON, KEEFE & DEVANE
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, TEMPLE STREET NORTH, NO. 013-15 (CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL)
Date: 1962
Nature: Alts. & adds., new ward unit.
Refs: IB 104, 12 May,9 Jun 1962, 377,455

Name: ASHLIN & COLEMAN
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, TEMPLE STREET NORTH, NO. 013-15 (CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL)
Date: ?
Nature: Design for decoration of chapel walls & ceiling.
Refs: Drawing in IAA, Ashlin & Coleman drawings collection, Acc. 76/1.81/1