1883
Kildare Street Dublin
museums
National Museum of Ireland
Sir Thomas Drew (1838-1910)
Unbuilt Dublin
Random Building
1880 – Royal Exchange Assurance Co., No. 5 College Green, Dublin
1883 – Design for National Museum, Dublin
Architect: Sir Thomas Drew
One of the entries to design a new National Museum and Library around Leinster House, then belonging to the Royal Dublin Society. The results of the original architecture competition were scrapped after it was found out that all the entrants were “minor” English architects including E.W. Godwin. Eventually Thomas Newenham Deane was selected as architect.