1956 – Post Sorting Office, Cootehill, Co. Cavan
Architect: Seymour Rice & Bertie Banahan, Office of Public Works
One of a series of smaller post office buildings constructed around Ireland at this time.
1956 – Presbyterian Church, Rathcoole, Co. Antrim
Architect: Robert J. McKinstry
Rathcoole Housing Estate was one of the first large-scale housing schemes in Northern Ireland in the 1940s and 50s.
1956 – Shelter, People’s Park, Phoenix Park, Dublin
Architect: Raymond McGrath, Office of Public Works
A curvilinear profile on a rectangular plan,
1956 – St. Colman’s High School, Strabane, Co. Tyrone
Architect: Corr & McCormick
The school was built in the mid 1950s as a result of the education act of 1947,
1956 – St. Gabriel’s Church, Clontarf, Dublin
Architect: Peppard & Duffy
Peppard & Duffy produced a couple of churches for the Dublin archdiocese in the 1950s.
1957 – Augustinian Professorium, Ballyboden, Co. Dublin.
Architect: McCormack Keane
Religious campus that was built around an existing house,
1957 – Boys Vocational School, Killester, Dublin
Architect: Hooper & Mayne
Two storey school with double height entrance hallway for the City of Dublin VEC.
1957 – Cadbury’s, Coolock, Dublin
Architect: C.J. Wilkinson
Cadbury’s was established in 1824 in Birmingham with its first Irish factory at Ossory Road,
1957 – Christian Brothers School, Fairview, Dublin
Architect: O’Connor & Aylward
Best described as mid-century Irish religious institutional,
1957 – Cyril Lord Carpet Factory, Donaghadee, Co. Down
Architect: McAlister, Mather & Partners
A factory built for textile entrepreneur Cyril Lord,
