From the official guide; “Some contributions made by the Irish to the happiness of other parts of the world are beguilingly displayed in a series of courts and halls.
A large development on the old Brooks Thomas yards consisting of blocks of various heights around courtyards both at street level and raised.
Extension to the original 19th century hosipital in a Dutch modern style. Extended in 1962 by the same architects.
Andrew Devane was born in Limerick and studied architecture at University College Dublin and was awarded the Taliesin Fellowship. In 1946 he left Ireland for the United States to study under Frank Lloyd Wright.
Modern catholic church built to cater for the expanding population of the village and area in the 1970s.
Carroll’s of Grand Parade was designed and built in 1962-64 which was a period of great modernisation in Ireland both of society and of the city of Dublin.
A commercial headquarters on a US campus-style model with its heavily landscaped grounds, the AIB Bankgroup building was developed on lands belonging to the Royal Dublin Society across the road.
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