1954 – Presentation Sisters Convent, Ballyphehane, Cork
Architect: Frank Murphy
Fine 1950s convent complex still largely intact.
1954 – State Cinema, Phibsborough, Dublin
Architect: O’Connor & Aylward
A new cinema by Odeon (Ireland) Ltd.
1954 – Stella Maris Church, Rosguill, Co. Donegal
Architect: Brendan O’Connor
Designed to seat 300, this small modern church,
1954 – Stewart & Lloyds, East Wall Road, Dublin
Architect: Patrick Hamilton, Michael Scott Architects
Small office building attached to a larger warehouse behind.
1954 – Sunbeam Wolsey Nylon Spinning, Blackpool, Cork
Architect: Buchan Kane Foley
Now largely unrecognisable, this is one of the last remnants of the vast Sunbeam Wolsey work in Blackpool,
1954 – Telephone Exchange, Foxrock, Co. Dublin
Architect: Seymour Rice & Bertie Banahan, Office of Public Works
Telephone exchange built for the Department of Post &
1954 – Unbuilt Design for Cork County Hall
Architect: Patrick McSweeney
A concept by Patrick McSweeney who was Cork County Architect from 1953 to 1975.
1954 – Unexecuted design for County Hospital, Carlow
Architect: Michael Scott Architects
Carlow did not get a County Hospital in the 1920s or 1930s when many counties were constructing new hospitals replacing old Victorian infirmaries.
1954 – Villa Maria, Killiney, Co. Dublin
Architect: Jack O’Hare
Designed by Jack O’Hare who was the second Irish architect to apprentice under Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin arriving shortly after Andrew Devane had departed.
1954 – Whitehall Grand Cinema, Dublin
Architect: O’Connor & Aylward
The 1,000-seater Whitehall Grand Cinema opened on 31st July 1954.nBy the 1960’s it was home to both cinema and bingo,
