1922 – Urban renewal proposal for Cork city
After the city centre of Cork was burned in December 1920, by a fire set by the Black and Tans as retribution for republican attacks,
After the city centre of Cork was burned in December 1920, by a fire set by the Black and Tans as retribution for republican attacks,
Replacing an earlier department store that was burned down in 1920 along with most of this part of St.
Built in the 1920s to the design of architect Henry H. Hill, this building replaced an earlier department store on the site which was burnt in 1920 along with several buildings on the eastern side of St.
Completed in 1926, in wrought iron with timber walkway, by the London based David Rowell &
One of Munster’s oldest covered shopping arcades, Winthrop Arcade, built in 1926, has a distinctive mock Tudor façade.
Former Burtons store on St. Patrick’s Street now in use by another retailer with upper floors used as storage.
Ornate large former department store building for Alex Grant & Co., now divided into smaller retail units.
Remodelled in an art deco style in 1930 by Daniel A. Levie. Demolished.
According to Shane O’Toole, in a piece for The Sunday Times “Byrne (1883-1967), a protégé and friend of Frank Lloyd Wright,
The home of Sir Cosmo Haskard who was Governor of the Falkland Islands in the 1960s and instrumental in the island remaining under British control when the government of the day was open to turning the islands over to Argentina.
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