Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, NO. 023-28 (DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY & COMMERCE)  Street numbers may have changed due to re-numbering

Name: SCOTT & GOOD
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, NO. 023-28 (DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY & COMMERCE)
Date: 1935
Nature: Unplaced competition entrants.
Refs: IB 78, 11 Jan,8 Feb 1936, 102, ?;  Sean Rothery, Ireland and the New Architecture 1900-1940 (1991), 88-89

Name: BUCKLEY & O'GORMAN
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, NO. 023-28 (DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY & COMMERCE)
Date: 1935
Nature: Competition entrants.
Refs: IB 8, 8 Feb 1936, ? (critique of entries by 'Wisbech', i.e. John O' Gorman himself).

Name: KAVANAGH, RAYMOND JAMES
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, NO. 023-28 (DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY & COMMERCE)
Date: 1935
Nature: Competition entrant.
Refs: IB 8, 8 Feb 1936, ? (critique of entries by 'Wisbech', i.e. John O' Gorman).

Name: O'CALLAGHAN & GIRON
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, NO. 023-28 (DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY & COMMERCE)
Date: 1935
Nature: Competition entrants.
Refs: IB 8, 8 Feb 1936, ? (critique of entries by 'Wisbech', i.e. John O' Gorman).

Name: RYAN, FERGUS JAMES
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, NO. 023-28 (DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY & COMMERCE)
Date: 1935
Nature: Competition entrant 'in association with R.M. Butler';  'appeared to be that very rare phenomenon - the competition design placed for its elevations' (John O'Gorman).
Refs: IB 8, 8 Feb 1936, ? (critique of entries by 'Wisbech', i.e. John O' Gorman).

Name: LEONARD, SIMON ALOYSIUS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, NO. 023-28 (DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY & COMMERCE)
Date: 1935
Nature: Competition entrant; 'a clean, straightforward solution of the problem in a H-shaped block' (O'Gorman).
Refs: IB 8, 8 Feb 1936, ? (critique of entries by 'Wisbech', i.e. John O' Gorman).

Name: ROBINSON & KEEFE
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, NO. 023-28 (DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY & COMMERCE)
Date: 1935
Nature: Competition entrants.
Refs: IB 8, 8 Feb 1936, ? (critique of entries by 'Wisbech', i.e. John O' Gorman).

Name: BARRETT, JAMES RUPERT EDWARD BOYD
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, NO. 023-28 (DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY & COMMERCE)
Date: 1935-1939
Nature: Winning entrant in competition. Ballyedmondduff granite  with Ballinasloe limestone dressings. Contractor: John Sisk & Son. Contractor for heating, ventilation &c.: Haden. Consultant for same: Sulzer Bros, London.
Refs: JBB's specifications in IAA, Acc. 2005/50; IAA, PKS 0285,0286, 0314; Angela Rolfe, The Department of Industry and Commerce (Dublin, OPW), 1992; IB 78, 11,25 Jan,8 Feb 1936, 7,23,62(illus.),64-65; 80, 10 Feb 1938, 157; 81, 21 Jan,27 May 1939, 66,464; 84, 21 Nov 1942, 433; JRIAI (1936), 12; 1936-1937, 18; RIAI Minutes? 1935-1936, 323; Sean Rothery, Ireland and the New Architecture 1900-1940 (1991), 58-61(illus.);  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 476.


Name: BUTLER, ELEANOR GRACE
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, NO. 023-28 (DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY & COMMERCE)
Date: 1935-36
Nature: Placed 3rd in competition, 'in association with R.M. Butler'.
Refs: IB 78, 11 Jan,8 Feb 1936, 102,?; Sean Rothery, Ireland and the New Architecture 1900-1940 (1991), 88-89

Name: JONES & KELLY
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, NO. 023-28 (DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY & COMMERCE)
Date: 1935-36
Nature: Placed 2nd in competition.
Refs: IB 78, 11 Jan,8 Feb 1936, 102, ?; Sean Rothery, Ireland and the New Architecture 1900-1940 (1991), 88-89

Name: GRIFFITH, WILLIAM A.
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, NO. 023-28 (DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY & COMMERCE)
Date: 1936
Nature: ?Competition entrant
Refs: Unfinished drawing (floor plans) in IAA, Griffith Collection, 85/166.5

Name: DELAP & WALLER
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, NO. 023-28 (DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY & COMMERCE)
Date: 1940
Nature: Electrical installations. Architect: J.R. Boyd Barrett.
Refs: IB 82, 8 Jun 1940, 390

Name: MURPHY, SEAMUS *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, NO. 023-28 (DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY & COMMERCE)
Date: 1941
Nature: Shortlisted entrant for sculptural panels, but commission given to Gabriel Hayes.
Refs: Peter Murray, ed., Séamus Murphy (1907-1975) Sculptor (Crawford Art Gallery & Gandon Editions, 2007), 276(illus.), 285-286(illus.).



Name: HAYES, GABRIEL *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, NO. 023-28 (DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY & COMMERCE)
Date: 1942
Nature: Sculpture on keystones, panels, balcony.
Refs: A. Rolfe & R. Ryan, The Department of Industry and Commerce, Kildare St, Dublin (OPW, 1992), 26-35.