The church that launched a career. Liam McCormick, born in Derry, was working as an architect and planner at the Ballymena Urban District Council when he won with Frank Corr (1917 -1986) a RIAI organised competition for a new church at Ennistymon in 1947.
Construction began in July 1959 and it was built and furnished at a cost of £28,000 to designs by architect Liam McCormick (1916-96),
The eminent Derry architect Liam McCormick designed St. Aengus’ Church, or ‘Burt Chapel’ as it is locally known,
In 1975 the new headquarters of Met Éireann, the Irish Meteorological Office, opened on the site of Marlborough House.
Liam McCormick (1916-1996) was close to being Ireland’s Alvar Aalto. Like the great Finnish architect, he was a committed but not doctrinaire modernist who found inspiration in the context of place and produced some of the finest buildings of the 20th century,
Liam McCormick, regarded as the “father of modern church architecture in Ireland”, was a giant of Irish architecture throughout the second half of the 20th century and one of only a handful of Irish architects to attract an international reputation.
