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.
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 – 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.
