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Cobh Cathedral
S Colman’s Cathedral, Cobh, Co. Cork Side elevation by Pugin and Ashlin, 1867 76/1.1 A1 As described in Frank Keohane’s magisterial new addition to the Buildings of Ireland series, Cork City and...
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Limerick Regional Hospital
Limerick Regional Hospital, Dooradoyle Cyril Arthur Farey after Patrick Joseph Sheahan 1941 IAA 2015/106.1 Designed from 1938 as a 278-bed county hospital by Patrick J. Sheahan (1893 – 1965), with...
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Wedgwood Chimneypieces in 45 Merrion Square
Achilles Chimneypiece, Georgian Society Records vol. IV, plate 94 (Dublin, 1909) In 1995, while the Patents Office was still in occupancy, a robbery occurred at 45 Merrion Square and a number of...
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Open Air Theatre, Achill, Co. Mayo
Noel Moffett 1 April 1941 IAA 98/46.7/1 The outdoor theatre which Noel Moffett (1912-1994) designed for Major Dermot Johnston Freyer (1883-1970) in 1941 was the first, and possibly the most eccentric,...
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Ireland Pavilion, Osaka, Japan
Stephenson Gibney and Associates 1970 Model (89/24) Expo ’70 was held in Osaka, Japan, from March to September 1970 under the banner of ‘Progress and Harmony for Mankind’. The master plan for the...
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Hammam Hotel and Turkish Baths
Oliver North Armstrong and his wife Eleanor Elizabeth Armstrong (née Jones) were the proprietors of the Hamman Hotel and Turkish Baths, 11, 12 and 13 Upper Sackville Street (O’Connell Street),...
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Design for labourers cottage
Design for labourers cottage, Cashel Rural District Council, Co. Tipperary Joseph Connolly c. 1920 94/140/1 In parallel with the late-nineteenth century movement to improve working-class housing...
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Archival serendipity or an everyday tale of how material comes into an archives
At some point in the 1970s, a collector of agricultural machinery and habitual auction attendee purchased a job lot of old office furniture. Included was a plan chest for which the purchaser had no...
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Gresham Hotel under construction
Gresham Hotel under construction, 1927, IAA McLaughlin and Harvey Collection (2005/032.8/18) Founded in 1817 by Thomas Gresham, the Gresham Hotel occupied three Georgian houses on the east side of...
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Tyrone House exterior and interior
H. Lahiff, 1904, IAA 2002/84.1 Described by Mark Bence Jones in his seminal Guide to Irish Country Houses (London, 1978) as ‘a gaunt and rather sinister ruin’, the remains of Tyrone House still...
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