Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, GRADUATES' MEMORIAL BUILDING

Name: DREW, THOMAS (SIR)
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, GRADUATES' MEMORIAL BUILDING
Date: 1897-1902
Nature: New building in 'picturesque frenchified Tudor idiom' (Casey). Granite, with Portland stone dressings.  Tenders invited for erecting same, May 1897. Opened 30  May 1902. Builder: Sharp & Emery.  Also flanking residential blocks.
Refs: Drawing exh. RHA 1896, no. 428 (and drawing by Lucius O'Callaghan exh. 1901, no. 297); IAA, PKS B17/37, B19/54, B20/01, A08 (Jan 1899);  Irish Times, 7 Jun 1895, 24 May 1897, 28 May 1902;   IB 41, 15 Feb 1899, 25; 42, 1 Aug 1900, 434; 43, 18 Jul 1901, 798; 44, 10 Apr,5, 19 Jun 1902, 1106,1268,1285(illus. in supplement); Building News 78, 15 Jun 1900, 823; B 78, 30 Jun 1900, 651;  IrishTimes, 22 Dec 1903;   E. McParland, 'The college buildings' in C.H. Holland, ed., Trinity College Dublin and the idea of a university' (1991), 171;J. Williams, A Companion Guide to Architecture in Ireland 1837-1921 (1994), 150;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 400.

Name: STIRLING, ROBERT JOHN
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, GRADUATES' MEMORIAL BUILDING
Date: 1899
Nature: One of three architects (with T.N. Deane and Thomas Drew) to submit proposal for same. Drew's design selected.
Refs: Design in TCD, MS MUN/MC/91/; E. McParland, 'The college buildings' in C.H. Holland, ed., Trinity College Dublin and the idea of a university' (1991), 171(illus.)

Name: DEANE, THOMAS NEWENHAM (SIR)
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, GRADUATES' MEMORIAL BUILDING
Date: 1899
Nature: One of three architects (with R.J. Stirling and Thomas Drew) to submit proposal for same. Drew's design selected.
Refs: Design in TCD, MS MUN/MC/91/; E. McParland, 'The college buildings' in C.H. Holland, ed., Trinity College Dublin and the idea of a university' (1991), 171(illus.)

Name: SHEPPARD, OLIVER *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, GRADUATES' MEMORIAL BUILDING
Date: 1899p
Nature: Bronze relief oF George Ferdinand Shaw (1821-1899) on W wall of Debating Chamber in Graduates' Tercentenary Memorial Building.
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 400.