Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION STREET UPPER, GOVERNMENT OFFICES

Name: WEBB, ASTON (SIR) #
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION STREET UPPER, GOVERNMENT OFFICES
Date: 1912-18
Nature: With Thomas Manly Deane (second phase of Royal College of Science/Government Offices scheme consisting of front portion of quadrangle). Builder: McLaughlin & Harvey. Estimated cost: £123,350.
Refs: Drawings in NA, OPW collection, old ref. H.H.0; IAA, PKS 0133, 0958, 1233, A09 (Mar 1912); RA 1913, no. 1681; IB 47, 29 Jul 1905, 525; 54, 20 Jan,26 Oct,21 Dec 1912, 34,601,727;   Building News 102, 14 Jun 1912, 864; 106, 2 Jan 1914, 5-8(illus.);  AJ 59, 27 Feb 1924, 365(illus.);  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 560.

Name: DEANE, THOMAS MANLY (SIR)
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION STREET UPPER, GOVERNMENT OFFICES
Date: 1912-18
Nature: With Aston Webb (second phase of Royal College of Science/Government Offices scheme consisting of front portion of quadrangle). Builder: McLaughlin & Harvey..
Refs: Drawings in NA, OPW collection, old ref. H.H.0; IAA, PKS 0133, 0958,1233, missing account book A02 (old ref. A/09(38)); RA 1913, no. 1681; IB 47, 29 Jul 1905, 525; 54, 20 Jan,26 Oct,21 Dec 1912, 34,601,727; Building News 102, 14 Jun 1912, 864; 106, 2 Jan 1914, 5-8(illus.); AJ 59, 27 Feb 1924, 365(illus.);  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 560.

Name: SHEPPARD, OLIVER *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION STREET UPPER, GOVERNMENT OFFICES
Date: ?
Nature: ' The seated figure of Science [on parapet] over main portico and the figures of Rowan Hamilton (l.) and Robert Boyle flanking the entrance wer conceived by Oliver Sheppard but executed by others...' (Casey).
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 560.