Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, CORK, SOUTH MALL, NO. 005 (ROYAL EXCHANGE LIFE & FIRE ASSURANCE CO.)  Street numbers may have changed due to re-numbering

Name: HOGAN, JOHN *
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, SOUTH MALL, NO. 005 (ROYAL EXCHANGE LIFE & FIRE ASSURANCE CO.)
Date: 1820ca
Nature: Wooden statue of Minerva for front of building (now in Crawford Art Gallery, Cork). Presented to Trustees of Crawford School of Art by Gresham Life Assurance Co. when it took over and rebuilt premises of old Royal Exchange Co. in mid 1880s.
Refs: IB 31, 1 Nov 1889, 267; John Turpin, John Hogan: Irish Newoclassical Sculptor in Rome, (Irish Academic Press, 1982), 175;  Roger Herlihy, A Walk through the South Parish (Cork: Red Abbey Publications, 2010), 63-64.

Name: BELCHER, SAMUEL
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, SOUTH MALL, NO. 005 (ROYAL EXCHANGE LIFE & FIRE ASSURANCE CO.)
Date: 1840ca
Nature: Works at same.
Refs: Signed drawing in collection of Pat Poland, Cork, 2011, repr. in Pat Poland, For Whom the Bells Tolled - a history of Cork Fire Services 1622-1900 (History Press, 2010), between pp. 160 & 161 (information from Roger Herlihy, Cork, Jan 2011).