1937 – Ringsend Public Library, Dublin
Architect: Robert S. Lawrie
One of four public libraries built during the period 1937 by Dublin Corporation in the suburbs of Phibsborough,
1937 – War Memorial Reading Room, Trinity College Dublin
Architect: Thomas Manly Deane
Small classically inspired reading room,
1938 – Former Aldephi Cinema, Abbey Street, Dublin
Architect: W.R. Glen
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 – 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.
