1938 – Former Classic Cinema, Terenure, Dublin
Former cinema, now like many in the suburbs, used as a commercial premises.
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.
1939 – Clarence Hotel, Wellington Quay, Dublin
Architect: Bradbury & Evans
Fine 1930s hotel which was modernised and extended upwards in the 1990s.
1939 – College of Domestic Economy, Cathal Brugha Street, Dublin
Architect: Robinson & Keefe
Built as the College of Domestic Economy for the City of Dublin Vocational Education Committee and later a part of DIT.
1939 – Department of Industry and Commerce, Kildare Street, Dublin
Architect: J.R. Boyd Barrett
This building was the result of a competition announced in 1935 to design accommodation for new government departments.
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,
1940 – Former Nurses’ Home, Grangegorman, Dublin
Architect: Vincent Kelly
Enormous nurses’ home built for St.
1941 – Corpus Christi, Drumcondra, Dublin
Architect: Robinson & Keefe
With a dome of 52 feet in diameter at the intersection of the nave and sanctuary with the transepts,
1943 – Former Munster & Leinster Bank, Inchicore, Dublin
Architect: McDonnell & Dixon
Former branch of the Munster &
1943 – National Concert Hall, Ormond Quay, Dublin
Architect: Daithi Hanly
A sketch design for a new National Concert Hall on the quays near the Four Courts.
