1960 – Kire Manufacturing, Kinsale, Co. Cork

Kire Manufacturing was an american company who were manufacturers of ladies’ garments mainly for export. Its main factory was here in Kinsale and it had branch factories at Fermoy, Bandon, and Newmarket. It was the first steel exposed structure in Ireland at the time of completion, and one of the first State-supported industrial projects as envisioned in the First Programme for Economic Expansion (1959-64). Miesian in design, the main entrance was marked by a wide flight of stairs suggestive of that at the then recently completed Crown Hall at the IIT in Chicago by Mies. Closed in 1974.