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.
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.
1944 – Ffrench-Mullan House, Charlemont Street, Dublin
Architect: Michael Scott
Designed and built during The Emergency (Second World War),
1945 – Proposed Davis Memorial, St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin
Architect: Raymond McGrath, Office of Public Works
Unconstructed design for a memorial for Thomas Davis in St.
1946 – Archer’s Garage, Fenian Street, Dublin
Architect: Arnold F. Hendy / Kaye-Parry, Ross & Hendy
Illegally demolished in 1999 over a long holiday weekend by property developer and hotel owner Noel O’Callaghan.
