Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, LEINSTER HOUSE (ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY)

Name: DOYLE, ROBERT [1]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, LEINSTER HOUSE (ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY)
Date: 1815
Nature: Plans for new fine arts department. Also paid for plans for botanical garden, 1820.
Refs: Royal Dublin Society proceedings "Doyle".(IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44)

Name: BAKER, HENRY AARON
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, LEINSTER HOUSE (ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY)
Date: 1823-27
Nature: Bust gallery and drawing school on NE side of house. Builder: Manders.
Refs: APSD II, D, 76; John Turpin, 'The Dublin Society's School of Architectural Drawing', BIGS 28 (1985), 14;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 417,481n,499.

Name: BEHNES, WILLIAM *#
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, LEINSTER HOUSE (ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY)
Date: 1826ca
Nature: Statue of George III.   Completed in 1845 by Constantine Panormo.
Refs: Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture:  Native Genius Reaffirmed  (Yale University Press:  New Haven & London, 2010), 12.

Name: MURRAY, WILLIAM [1]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, LEINSTER HOUSE (ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY)
Date: 1838
Nature: Proposals for statue gallery and lecture hall. Not executed.
Refs: Drawings in IAA, Murray Collection, 92/46, nos. 647-652 (see Bernadette Goslin, 'A History and descriptive catalogue of the Murray Collection of architectural drawings' (MA thesis, University College, Dublin, 1990), 200-201); section of gallery exh. RHA 1840, no. 338.

Name: PAPWORTH, JOHN THOMAS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, LEINSTER HOUSE (ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY)
Date: 1840-41
Nature: Alteration of north wing to provide museum and other improvements, including large lecture room with central skylight; 'in progress' in 1841. Work completed by George Papworth.
Refs: Designs exh. RHA 1840, nos. 332,242; 1841, no. 414; APSD, P, 40; David J. Griffin & Caroline. Pegum, Leinster House (Dublin: IAA & OPW, 2000), 72-73,Pl.126.

Name: LYONS, JOHN JOSEPH
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, LEINSTER HOUSE (ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY)
Date: 1853
Nature: JJL's design for proposed museum of natural history placed second.
Refs: B 10, 3 Jan 1852, 13

Name: FERGUSON, DUNCAN CAMPBELL
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, LEINSTER HOUSE (ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY)
Date: 1853
Nature: DCF's design for proposed museum of natural history wins competition.
Refs: B 10, 3 Jan 1852, 13

Name: DOUGLAS, FRANCIS H. ##
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, LEINSTER HOUSE (ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY)
Date: 1868
Nature: Erection of 400 stables on 5 acre site for purposes of Dublin Horse Show. Contractor: Goodfellow.
Refs: Irish Times, 14 Jul 1868.

Name: DEANE, THOMAS NEWENHAM, & SON
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, LEINSTER HOUSE (ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY)
Date: 1880s
Nature: Entrance gates, piers and railings.
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 499.

Name: DEANE, THOMAS NEWENHAM, & SON
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, LEINSTER HOUSE (ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY)
Date: 1893-97
Nature: New lecture theatre and connecting passage to Science and Art Museum. Rapidly approaching completion, Jan 1897. Builder of lecture theatre: Bolton & Son. Organ by Willis, London.
Refs: Designs for & photographs of fittings in sketchbook in NGI, Cat. no. 7396; drawings(s) dated 1894 in OPW; IAA, PKS 0733, B16/10, B16/30, B17/06, B18/05, A07 (Aug 1893-Jul 1895, , pp.98-100,415);  B 70, 13 Jun 1896, 519; 64th Report of the Board of Public Works, Ireland (1895), 6;  Irish Times, 6 Jan,19 Apr 1897.

Name: DARLEY, FREDERICK [2]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILDARE STREET, LEINSTER HOUSE (ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY)
Date: ?
Nature: Continued George Papworth's work on Museum.
Refs: M. Craig, 'The Society's Buildings' in J. Meenan & Desmond Clarke, eds., RDS: the Royal Dublin Society 1731-1981 (1981), 64.