Lost Buildings of Ireland

1938 – Former Aldephi Cinema, Abbey Street, Dublin

Open until the early 1990s, the Adelphi was demolished and part of its façade retained to provide car parking for the expanded Arnott’s Department Store.

1938 – Irish Sweepstakes Building, Ballsbridge, Co. Dublin

Architect: Robinson & Keefe

Office complex built in 1937-38 as the administration centre of the world wide business (and possibly world wide con job) that was the Irish Sweepstakes.

1938 – Magnet Cinema, Monaghan, Co. Monaghan

Architect: Hume P. Mayston

Original appearance of former cinema on Glaslough Street in Monaghan town.

1939 – Imco, Merrion Road, Dublin

Architect: Higginbotham & Stafford / Oliver P. Bernard

IMCO were a large firm of dry cleaners who ran a central cleaning and dying plant on Merrion Road,

1939 – Ritz Cinema, Athlone, Co. Westmeath

Architect: Bill O’Dwyer, Michael Scott Architects

The Ritz Cinema in Athlone (1939) is attributed to Scott but was in fact designed by Bill O’Dwyer who was working and studying in the office of Michael Scott at that time.

1940 – Former Nurses’ Home, Grangegorman, Dublin

Architect: Vincent Kelly

Enormous nurses’ home built for St.

1940 – Ritz Cinema, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary

Architect: Bill O’Dwyer, Michael Scott Architects

The Ritz Cinema (1939-40) is attributed to Michael Scott but was in fact designed by Bill O’Dwyer who was working and studying in the office of Michael Scott at that time.

1941 – Open Air Theatre, Achill, Co. Mayo

Architect: Noel W. Moffett

Designed for for Major D.J.

1943 – Restaurant, Amiens Street Station, Dublin

During the Second World War, materials for new construction was sometimes scarce but Great Northern Railways saw fit to create this new buffet restaurant within their Dublin terminus.