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KELLY, VINCENT
- Born: 1895 Died: 1975
Architect, of Dublin. Vincent Kelly, who was born in 1895, was a native of Trim, Co. Meath, and attended the Trim Model School, from which he won a scholarship to St Finian's College, Mullingar. (1) He studied under WILLIAM ALPHONSUS SCOTT at the newly-established School of Architecture at University College, Dublin, from which, in 1917, he was the first student to graduate.(2) By 1922 he had set up in independent practice in Lower Abbey Street. In 1931 he was appointed one of the three members of the Irish Hospital Committee of Reference set up to advise on the allocation of funds from the recently established Hospitals Trust Sweepstake, and in 1933 was sent by the committee to study recent hospital design in Europe. He left Ireland in February 1933 and during a six-week tour visited fifty-two new hospitals in Switzerland, Sweden, Germany, Holland, and Czechoslovakia.(3) Several local authority health boards - including those in Cos. Tipperary (North and South Ridings),Leitrim and Wicklow - chose him as architect for their proposed hospital improvement schemes, and in 1934 he was appointed consulting architect for Grangegorman mental hospital in Dublin. He also designed buildings for the Electricity Supply Board and for the New Ireland Assurance Co.(4) His pupils and assistants included DERMOT ST JOHN GOGARTY , THOMAS FRANCIS INGLIS , FREDERICK M acMANUS, Brendan O'Connor, JAMES MAUDE RICHARDS , future editor of the Architectural Review, JAMES STANISLAUS JOSEPH WALL and JOHN HENRY WATSON . Richards recalled him as he was in 1931: 'he was one of the most successful Dublin architects; not an outstanding designer - he would not have claimed to be so - but a good business man, a practical man who got on well with his colleagues and a man with well-established contacts in ecclesiastical and government circles. These served him well when the torrent of unlooked-for money descended on the hospitals.'(5) Kelly died in 1975, survived by his wife.
The Irish Architectural Archive holds three undated hospital designs by Kelly (Acc. 2001/165): a plan of the Co. Kildare Fever Hospital at Naas, a competition design for the Co. Louth Mental Hospital at Ardee, and a bird's-eye view of an unidentified tuberculosis hospital. It also holds a scrapbook of newspaper cuttings compiled by Kelly between May 1931 and January 1945 (Acc. 2009/100).
AAI: elected member, 1931; gave lecture, 'A tour of Continental Hospitals'. 20 February 1934;(6) vice-president, 1934-35; president, 1935-36 .
RIAI: student, 1919; member, 1922; fellow, 1932;(7) president, 1944-45.
RIBA: elected fellow, 1933.(8)
Addresses: 12 Market Street, Trim, Co. Meath, 1921; 32-33 Lower Abbey Street, Dublin, 1922; Manfield Chambers, 43-44 O'Connell Street Lower, 1924; 4 Grafton Street, 1926-1929;(9) 87 Merrion Square, 1929 until death.
Home:(10) L'Alvi Blance, Brittas Bay, Co. Wicklow, 1933-1934; El Nedo, Brittas Bay, Co. Wicklow, 1937-1938; Bloomfield, Newcastle, Co. Wicklow, 1939; Tudor House, Dalkey, 1940->=1952.
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References
All information in this entry not otherwise accounted for is from S. Rothery, Ireland and the New Architecture 1900-1940 (1991), 14, F. O'Dwyer, Irish Hospital Architecture: a pictorial history (1997), 18-19, and AAI and RIAI lists of officers and members. A number of newspaper cuttings about Kelly's involvement with the Irish Hospital Committee of Reference are in the Vincent Kelly scrapbook in the IAA, Acc. 2009/100. A drawing of Kelly by Sean O'Sullivan forms the frontispiece of the RIAI Year Book (1943 & 1944). There are photographs of Kelly in the same scrapbook, in AAI Green Book (1936), frontispiece, S. Rothery, op. cit., above,, pl. 94, Irish Times, 21 Feb 1934, and 'Architecture Yesterday and Today', supplement to Irish Times, 21 Jun 1939, 28
(1) Unidentified newspaper article about Kelly's graduation with photograph, 1917, in newspaper cuttings album from RIAI, now in IAA, Acc. 80/51.
(2) Building News 113, 14 Nov 1917, 399. Annexe 3 (1981), 164. In 1934 he became a founder member of a new Association of Irish Architectural Architectural Graduates (Irish Times, 17,21 May, 1934).
(3) Irish Independent, 6 Apr 1933; Irish Press, 21 Feb,6 Apr 1933.
(4) Irish Times, Architectural Supplement, 21 Jun 1939, 28.
(5) J.M Richards, Memoirs of an Unjust Fella (1980), 76-77.
(6) Irish Times, 21 Feb 1934.
(7) JRIAI (1933), 8.
(8) Irish Press, 19 May 1933; Irish Independent, 13 May 1933; RIBA Kalendar 1957-58, 313.
(9) Irish Times, 27 Mar 1929.
(10) From Thom's directories.
85 work entries listed in chronological order for KELLY, VINCENT
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| Building: | CO. TIPPERARY, FETHARD, HOUSES |
| Date: | 1920 |
| Nature: | VK appointed architect for housing scheme for Fethard Town Commissioners, May 1920. |
| Refs: |
Irish Times, 7 May 1920. |
| Building: | CO. LAOIS, ABBEYLEIX, CHURCH OF THE HOLY ROSARY (RC) |
| Date: | 1920 |
| Nature: | Steeple. |
| Refs: |
2 rolls of drawings, 1920, in IAA, Edward Cullen Collection, Acc. 2004/160 (not on public access). |
| Building: | CO. CORK, CORK, ALBERT QUAY, CITY HALL (NEW) |
| Date: | 1923 |
| Nature: | Commended entrant in competition won by Jones & Kelly. Assessor: Lucius O'Callaghan. |
| Refs: | IB 65, 30 Jun 1923, 485 |
| Building: | CO. MEATH, IFFERNOCK HOUSE |
| Date: | 1924 |
| Nature: | Alts., for Mr Reilly. |
| Refs: | IB 66, 14 Jun 1924, 534 |
| Building: | CO. MEATH, SLANE, CHURCH OF ST PATRICK (RC) |
| Date: | 1924 |
| Nature: | Repairs and alterations, mainly internal. |
| Refs: | IB 66, 17 May 1924, 446 |
| Building: | CO. TIPPERARY, THURLES, DISTRICT HOSPITAL |
| Date: | 1926 |
| Nature: | VK's plans for reconstruction of Fever Hospital at cost of £4,500 approved by North Tipperary Board of Health. Jul 1926. |
| Refs: |
Irish Times, 19,29 Jul 1926. |
| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FLEET STREET, NO. 001-7 (& BEDFORD ROW), ELECTRICITY SUBSTATION |
| Date: | 1926-28 |
| Nature: | New building in International Modern manner, for Electricity Supply Board. Principal contractor: McLaughlin & Harvey. |
| Refs: |
Design exh. RHA 1930, no. 281; Architect & Building News 126, 19 Jun 1931, 396(illus.); Sean Rothery, Ireland and the New Architecture 1900-1940 (1991), 144,146(illus.); Paul Larmour, Free State Architecture: Modern Movement architecture in Ireland, 1922-1949 (Kinsale: Gandon Editions, 2009), 20(illus.); Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 438. |
| Building: | CO. MEATH, DUNSANY, NATIONAL SCHOOL |
| Date: | 1927 |
| Nature: | Tenders invited for erection of new national school, Aug 1927. For Rev. James F. Gilmor, CC. |
| Refs: |
Irish Times, 11,13 Aug 1927. |
| Building: | CO. MAYO, CASTLEBAR, COUNTY HOME |
| Date: | 1929 |
| Nature: | Proposed alts. |
| Refs: | Signed and dated rawing in IAA Workhouse Drawings Collection, Acc. 85/138.8 |
| Building: | CO. LOUTH, ARDEE, ST BRIGID'S MENTAL HOSPITAL |
| Date: | 1929 |
| Nature: | Competition entrant. |
| Refs: | Undated ground-floor plan in IAA, Acc. 2001/165 |
| Building: | CO. LAOIS, ABBEYLEIX, BRIGIDINE CONVENT |
| Date: | 1929 |
| Nature: | Work at same. |
| Refs: |
2 rolls of drawings, 1919, in IAA, Edward Cullen Collection, Acc. 2004/160 (not on public access). |
| Building: | CO. WICKLOW, GLENDALOUGH HOUSE |
| Date: | 1929 |
| Nature: | Rebuilding. |
| Refs: | IB 71, 16 Feb 1929, 156. |
| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, RINGSEND, ELECTRICITY SUBSTATION |
| Date: | 1929 |
| Nature: | New transformer station. Tenders invited, Oct 1929. Contractor: McLaughlin & Harvey. Plasterer: M. Creedon. |
| Refs: |
Loose llustrated leaflet in in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100. |
| Building: | CO. LONGFORD, BALLYNARRY, CHURCH (RC) |
| Date: | 1929-1930 |
| Nature: | Reconstruction for Rev. John Casey, CC.. Tenders invited. |
| Refs: | Irish Times, 30 Oct 1929; IB 72, 15 Feb 1930, 151. |
| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MARROWBONE LANE, NO. 054-55 (SCRIBBANS BAKERY) |
| Date: | 1929-1932 |
| Nature: | New bakery for Scribbans & Co. |
| Refs: |
Paul Larmour, Free State Architecture: Modern Movement architecture in Ireland, 1922-1949 (Kinsale: Gandon Editions, 2009) , 21(illus.),22 |
| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARK DRIVE (RANELAGH), ELECTRICITY SUBSTATION |
| Date: | 1929;1932 |
| Nature: | New transformer station 'in the Italian manner' for Electricity Supply Board.. Tenders invited, Sep 1929. Contractor: James Beckett, Ringsend. |
| Refs: | Irish Times, 10 Sep 1929; newspaper cutting, 7 Mar 1932, in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100. |
| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MORNING STAR AVENUE, REGINA COELI HOSTEL FOR WOMEN |
| Date: | 1930 |
| Nature: | Women's hostel for Regina Coeli Committee. Tenders sought. |
| Refs: | Architect & Bulidng News124, 21 Feb 1930, 274 |
| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, MOUNT MERRION, HOUSE |
| Date: | 1930 |
| Nature: | Designs exh. RHA. |
| Refs: | RHA 1930, nos. 270,271 |
| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ANGLESEA ROAD, HOUSE |
| Date: | 1930s? |
| Nature: | New house with L-shaped entrance hall opening onto kitchen and staircase. Large garden with pergola with drum-shaped columns. |
| Refs: |
2 loose photographs (of hall and garden) in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100. |
| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, DAWSON STREET, MANSION HOUSE, MODERN HOME EXHIBITION |
| Date: | 1931 |
| Nature: | 'All Electric Home' exhibit designed by VK for Electricity Supply Board. |
| Refs: | Newspaper cutting in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100. |
| Building: | CO. LEITRIM, BALLINTORE, CHURCH (RC) |
| Date: | 1931 |
| Nature: | Tenders invited for erecting new church for Rev. Hugh Lynch, PP, April 1931. |
| Refs: | Irish Times, 30 Apr 1931. |
| Building: | CO. ROSCOMMON, CLOONFAD, CHURCH (RC) |
| Date: | 1931 |
| Nature: | New church. Tenders invited Jum 1931. |
| Refs: |
Advertisement for tenders in Irish Times?, 6 Jun 1931, in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100. |
| Building: | CO. MEATH, TRIM, TECHNICAL SCHOOL |
| Date: | 1931-32 |
| Nature: | For Meath County Council. Tenders sought. |
| Refs: |
Architect & Building News 125, 2,9 Jan 1931, 26,104; newspaper advertisement for tenders for clearing ground, 11 Jun 1932, in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100. |
| Building: | CO. SLIGO, BALLINTOGHER, CHURCH OF ST TERESA (RC, KILLERY PARISH) |
| Date: | 1931-33 |
| Nature: | New church. FS laid Sep 1931. Dedicated 31 Sep 1933. Stations of the Cross by D. Sullivan, Dublin. |
| Refs: |
Newspaper cutting with perspective view of church, 10 Oct 1931, and cutting with photograph from Irish Independent, 2 Oct 1933in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100; illus. in The Bell 4, no. 1 (April 1942), 34 (copy in IAA, RPC.96.5); .James MacNamee, History of the Dicoese of Ardagh (1954), ?; M.J. McDermott, Ireland's Architectural Heritage, 121 |
| Building: | CO. LONGFORD, LONGFORD, HOUSING SCHEME |
| Date: | 1931-33 |
| Nature: | Scheme of 24 houses for UDC. Kelly submits bill to Longford Urban Council for £42.15s 'for work done in connection with the new housing scheme'. |
| Refs: | Architect & Building News 127, 11 Sep 1931, 312Roscommon Herald, 11 Nov 1933 |
| Building: | CO. SLIGO, KILLERRY, CHURCH OF ST THERESE OF THE CHILD JESUS (RC) |
| Date: | 1931-33 |
| Nature: | New church. FS laid by bishop of Ardagh, 22 Aug 1931. Church dedicated and opened for public, 1 Oct 1933. Stue of St Therese over main door given by VK. |
| Refs: |
J. MacNamee, History of the Diocese of Ardagh (1954), 666. |
| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FITZWILLIAM STREET LOWER, NO. 029-30 (ELECTRICITY SUPPLY BOARD) |
| Date: | 1931a |
| Nature: | New 3-bay, 3-storey offices. |
| Refs: |
Architect & Building News 126, 396(illus.). |
| Building: | CO. LAOIS, PORTLAOISE, PRESENTATION CONVENT SCHOOL |
| Date: | 1931a |
| Nature: | New school for Rt. Rev. Monsignor Murphy, manager. For 300 pupils. Cost £6,200. |
| Refs: | Irish Times, 15 Oct 1931 (illus.). (Cutting of same in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100) |
| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MILLTOWN, ELECTRICITY SUBSTATION |
| Date: | 1931a |
| Nature: | New. Principal contractor: James Beckett, Ltd. Plasterer: M. Creedon. |
| Refs: |
Loose llustrated leaflet in in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100; Architect & Building News 126, 19 Jun 1931, 396 (illus.). |
| Building: | CO. CORK, CORK, CAROLINE STREET, ELECTRICITY SUPPLY BOARD SHOWROOM |
| Date: | 1931a |
| Nature: | New single-storey showroom, with 2-storey office. Opened Sep 1931. Contractor: Meagher & Hayes. Ornamental ironwork by J. & C. McGloughlin, Dublin. |
| Refs: | Newspaper cutting (with external and internal photographs) in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100. |
| Building: | CO. KILDARE, CELBRIDGE ABBEY |
| Date: | 1932 |
| Nature: | Alts. & adds.for Captain Gough of Lough Cutra Castle. |
| Refs: | Newspaper cutting from Daily Express?,15 Sep 1931, in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100; IB 74, 13 Feb 1932, 161. |
| Building: | CO. MEATH, ATHLUMNEY, HOUSE |
| Date: | 1932 |
| Nature: | Tenders invited for construction of same. |
| Refs: | Advertisement from Irish Times, 11 Jun 1932, in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100. |
| Building: | CO. LEITRIM, DRUMSHANBO, FRANCISCAN CONVENT |
| Date: | 1932 |
| Nature: | Tenders invited for erecting new wing. |
| Refs: |
Advertisements in Irish Independent and Irish Press, 2 Nov 1932, in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100. |
| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BRIDGE STREET, NO. 009-10 (CALLANAN & CO.) |
| Date: | 1932 |
| Nature: | New shop front. Builder: S. Phillips, Drumcondra. |
| Refs: | IB 74, 13 Feb 1932, 161 |
| Building: | CO. LONGFORD, BALLYMAHON, PAROCHIAL HALL |
| Date: | 1932 |
| Nature: | New hall, including assembly hall with stage, library, billiard room and card room. Built through 'generosity of an American priest, Dean Egan'. Completed 1932. |
| Refs: |
James MacNamee, History of the Diocese of Ardagh (1954), 768. |
| Building: | CO. CORK, CORK, SOUTH MALL, NO. 025 (NEW IRELAND ASSURANCE CO.) |
| Date: | 1932-33 |
| Nature: | Premises 're-opened' by Lord Mayor and 'fine offices' blessed by Canon Murphy, 25 Feb 1932. Contractor: John Sisk, Cork. |
| Refs: | Irish Times, 25 Feb 1932 |
| Building: | CO. TIPPERARY, NENAGH, TECHNICAL SCHOOL |
| Date: | 1932-33 |
| Nature: | New school in International Modern style for Co. Tipperary (N. Riding) Vocational Ediucation Committee.. Tenders for building same invited, May 1933. |
| Refs: |
Irish Times, 15 May 1933; Paul Larmour, Free State Architecture: Modern Movement architecture in Ireland, 1922-1949 (Kinsale: Gandon Editions, 2009), 60(illus., from IB Apr 1936). |
| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, DORSET STREET LOWER, NO. 021-22 (NEW IRELAND BUILDINGS) |
| Date: | 1933 |
| Nature: | New 4-storey block consisting of two offices and six flats developed by New Ireland Assurance Co. to include new branch. Formally opened, 18 Oct 1933. |
| Refs: |
Cuttings from Irish Times, 19 Oct 1933 (illus.) and Irish Independent , 19 Oct 1933 (illus.), in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100.; |
| Building: | CO. TIPPERARY, THURLES, COUNTY BOOK REPOSITORY |
| Date: | 1933 |
| Nature: | Advertisement for tenders for proposed additions to County Book Repository. |
| Refs: |
Advertisement in Irish Independent, 1 Sep 1933 in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100. |
| Building: | CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, ELECTRICITY SUPPLY BOARD PREMISES |
| Date: | 1933 |
| Nature: | New. |
| Refs: |
Loose photograph in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100. |
| Building: | CO. TIPPERARY, SLIEVEARDAGH, HOSPITAL (PROPOSED) |
| Date: | 1933 |
| Nature: | VC architect for same, for Tipperary (South) County Board of Health, Feb 1933. |
| Refs: | Irish Times, 22 Feb 1933. |
| Building: | CO. TIPPERARY, TEMPLEMORE, TECHNICAL SCHOOL |
| Date: | 1933 |
| Nature: | Tenders invited for erecting new technical school for Tipperary (NR) Vocational Education Committee, Apr 1933. |
| Refs: | Irish Times, 13 Apr 1933. |
| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, GRAFTON STREET, NO. 097-99 (W.J. KELLY) |
| Date: | 1933 |
| Nature: | New premises for W.J. Kelly, men's outfitters. Plans approved by City Architect, Apr 1933. 5-storey, 5-bay facade of Ruabon rustic facing bricks with stone cornice and copings. 3 round-headed central windows carried up from first to third floor. W.J. Kelly acted as his own contractor. |
| Refs: |
Irish Times, 13 Apr 1933, 16 Aug 1933 (illus), Irish Independent, 16 Aug 1933 ( in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100. |
| Building: | CO. LONGFORD, LONGFORD, TECHNICAL SCHOOL |
| Date: | 1933 |
| Nature: | Tenders invited for conversion of Mobilisation Store into Technical School, for Vocational Education Committee, Apr/May 1933.. |
| Refs: |
Advertisement in Irish Independent, 17? May 1933 in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100; Irish Times, 26 Apr 1933. |
| Building: | CO. TIPPERARY, ROSCREA, FEVER HOSPITAL (PROPOSED) |
| Date: | 1933 |
| Nature: | Proposed new hospital for Tipperary North Riding Board of Health. Unexecuted. |
| Refs: |
Clonmel Nationalist, 19 Aug 1933; Paul Larmour, Free State Architecture: Modern Movement architecture in Ireland, 1922-1949 (Kinsale: Gandon Editions, 2009), 34,36(illus.). |
| Building: | CO. LEITRIM, MANORHAMILTON, COUNTY SURGICAL HOSPITAL & COUNTY HOME (PROPOSED) |
| Date: | 1933 |
| Nature: | VK appointed architect. For Leitrim Board of Health but project abandoned. |
| Refs: | Newspaper cuttings from Anglo Celt, 17 Jun 1933; Irish Times, 11 Jul 1933 Irish Press, 12 Jul 1933, Sligo Champion, 15 Jul 1939, in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100; F. O'Dwyer, Irish Hospital Architecture: a pictorial history (1997), 19 |
| Building: | CO. TIPPERARY, NENAGH, TYONE, GENERAL HOSPITAL |
| Date: | 1933-1936 |
| Nature: | New hospital. VK prepares sketch plans, working drawings and specifications, 1933. Tenders invited Apr 1934. Opened, Sep 1936. Nurses' home at rear. Contractor (for nurses' home) Samuel Phillips, Dublin. |
| Refs: |
Clonmel Nationalist, 19 Aug 1933; advertisement for tenders, 14 Apr 1934, articles from Irish Times, 31 Sep 1936 (illus.), 1 Oct 1936, Irish Independent , 1 Oct 1936(illus.), Irish Press, 1 Oct 1936(illus.) and loose photograph of ward block, 1935, in IAA, in Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100; IB 78, 5 Sep 1936; ?(illus.); 81, 2 Sep 1939, 739(illus.),741(illus.); F. O'Dwyer, Irish Hospital Architecture: a pictorial history (1997), 19,Pl. 94; Paul Larmour, Free State Architecture: Modern Movement architecture in Ireland, 1922-1949 (Kinsale: Gandon Editions, 2009) , 34-35(illus.). |
| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, DAWSON STREET, NO. 021-22 (NEW IRELAND ASSURANCE CO.) |
| Date: | 1933-34 |
| Nature: | New premises occupying 'long derelict' site and containing, above offices 'six of the most up-to-date flats in Dublin'. flats contain 1 large living room, 2 bedrooms, kitchen, bathroom and hall. First portion 'nearing completion' in Oct 1933. Opened early 1934?. Main contractors: Samuel Phillips, Drumcondra. |
| Refs: |
Irish Times, 19 Oct 1933((illus.); cuttings (including preceding) from Irish Press , 19 Oct 1933 and other illustrated cuttings in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100; Paul Larmour, Free State Architecture: Modern Movement architecture in Ireland, 1922-1949 (Kinsale: Gandon Editions, 2009), 28(illus.). |
| Building: | CO. TIPPERARY, THURLES, DISTRICT HOSPITAL |
| Date: | 1933-34 |
| Nature: | VK prepares sketch plans for extensions and alterations. Tenders invited Apr 1934. Tenders invited for demolition of old hospital buildings, Apr 1939. |
| Refs: |
Clonmel Nationalist, 19 Aug 1933; advertisements for tenders, 14 Apr 1934, 22 Apr 1939, in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100; Irish Times, 26 Apr 1934. |
| Building: | CO. KILDARE, NAAS, FEVER HOSPITAL |
| Date: | 1933-38 |
| Nature: | New hospital for communicable diseases. Tenders invited, Apr 1935. Opened Jul 1938. Resident architect: Emmet Humphreys, B.Arch. General contractors: Collen Bros., East Wall, Dublin. |
| Refs: |
Undated isometric plan in IAA, Acc. 2001/165; Irish Times, 12 Dec 1934; advertisement for tenders, 1 Apr 1935, and photograph of building in Irish Independent, 28 Mar 1938, further photographs and account of opening, 6,20,21 Jul 1938, in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100; B ?, 16 Jun 1939, 1122(illus.); Irish Times, Architectural Supplement, 21 Jun 1939; Centenary Celebration of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland and Conference of The Royal Institute of British Architects 21st to 24th June 1939, 48(illus.); F. O'Dwyer, Irish Hospital Architecture: a pictorial history (1997), 19,Pl. 94; Paul Larmour, Free State Architecture: Modern Movement architecture in Ireland, 1922-1949 (Kinsale: Gandon Editions, 2009), 34,36(illus.). |
| Building: | CO. WEXFORD, WEXFORD, ?, NEW IRELAND ASSURANCE CO. |
| Date: | 1933ca |
| Nature: | New branch office designed by VK. Contractor: Samuel Phillips, Drumcondra, Dublin. |
| Refs: | Cuttings from Irish Times, 19 Oct 1933, Irish Press, 9 Oct 1933, and another unidentified cutting in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100. |
| Building: | CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, ?, NEW IRELAND ASSURANCE CO. |
| Date: | 1933ca |
| Nature: | New branch office designed by VK. |
| Refs: |
Irish Times, 19 Oct 1933, Irish Press , 19 Oct 1933. |
| Building: | CO. LIMERICK, ABBEYFEALE, CONVENT NATIONAL SCHOOL |
| Date: | 1934 |
| Nature: | Tenders invited for erecting new national schools for Very Rev. Canon . Murphy, PP, VF., Nov 1934. |
| Refs: |
Newspaper advertisement, 5 Nov 1934, in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100.j; Irish Times, 5,12,17 Dec 1934. |
| Building: | CO. LEITRIM, CARRICK-ON-SHANNON, COUNTY HOME |
| Date: | 1934 |
| Nature: | Tenders invited for carrying out structural alterations, repairs, &c. |
| Refs: |
Advertisement in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100. |
| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FRANCIS STREET, NO. 135-138 (TIVOLI CINEMA) |
| Date: | 1934 |
| Nature: | New? cinema, for J. J. Fagan. Contractor: McNally & Co. |
| Refs: | IAA, PKS 0993 |
| Building: | CO. CARLOW, CARLOW, TECHNICAL SCHOOL |
| Date: | 1934-1935 |
| Nature: | Tenders invited by Co. Carlow Vocational Education Committee for carrying out alts. & adds., for Co. Carlow Vocational Education Committee. Dec 1934. Contract placed with Dowling Bros, Kilkenny (£2,630), Feb 1935 |
| Refs: |
Newspaper advertisement for tenders, 13 Dec 1934 in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100; Irish Times, 18 Dec 1934, 18 Feb 1935. |
| Building: | CO. LEITRIM, FEARGLASS, CHURCH (RC) |
| Date: | 1934-1935 |
| Nature: | New chapel of ease in parish of Gortletteragh for Rev. Thomas Masterson. Broken pediment on entrance gable, 5-bay nave, single bay chancel. |
| Refs: |
2 loose photographs in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100.IB 76, 27 Jan 1934, 70; J. MacNamee, History of the Diocese of Ardagh (1954), 644. |
| Building: | CO. LEITRIM, FEARGLASS, CHURCH (RC) |
| Date: | 1934-1935 |
| Nature: | New chapel of ease in parish of Gortletteragh for Rev. Thomas Masterson. Broken pediment on entrance gable, 5-bay nave, single bay chancel. |
| Refs: |
2 loose photographs in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100.IB 76, 27 Jan 1934, 70; J. MacNamee, History of the Diocese of Ardagh (1954), 644. |
| Building: | CO. TIPPERARY, CASHEL, OUR LADY'S HOSPITAL (FORMERLY COUNTY HOSPITAL) |
| Date: | 1934-40 |
| Nature: | New hospital. 3-floor structure, built on the 'vertical system'. Tenders invited 20 Oct 1934. Tender of Farmer Bros., Nottingham Street, North Strand, Dublin (£60,799) accepted by South Tipperary Board of Health, Jan 1935. Clerk of Works: J. O'Dwyer, Ballinavana, Donohill. 'Nearing completion' Nov 1937. Opened, Jul 1940. Also new nurses' home. |
| Refs: |
Newspaper cuttings, 20 Oct 1934, 12 Jan 1935, 26 Nov 1937(illus.), Sep 1938, Apr 1939, 20 Jul 1940(illus.), in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100; Irish Times, 18 Feb 1935; IB 79, 7 Aug 1937, 690-1; Irish Times, Architectural Supplement, 21 Jun 1939; Centenary Celebration of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland and Conference of The Royal Institute of British Architects 21st to 24th June 1939, 48(illus.); F. O'Dwyer, Irish Hospital Architecture: a pictorial history (1997), 19,Pl. 94; Paul Larmour, Free State Architecture: Modern Movement architecture in Ireland, 1922-1949 (Kinsale: Gandon Editions, 2009), 34,36(illus.). |
| Building: | CO. CAVAN, KILLESHANDRA, CONVENT OF THE HOLY ROSARY |
| Date: | 1934? |
| Nature: | Unbuilt? international-style design for new chapel and school wing, 1934? According to Mulligan this wing was built.) |
| Refs: |
IAA, W.H. Byrne & Son drawings collection, Acc. 2006/142 (R. O'Donnell in B. of I. files gives date 1954, which wd. seem to be incorrect as WHB built chapel in 1947. Could this be a misreading for 1934?); Irish Times, Architectural Supplement, 21 Jun 1939; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 380. |
| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, GRANGEGORMAN, MENTAL HOSPITAL (FORMER RICHMOND LUNATIC ASYLUM) |
| Date: | 1934ca;1937-1940;1949 |
| Nature: | Appointed consulting architect to Joint Committee of Grangegorman Mental Hospital, Oct 1934. Extensions; 3 assistant medical officers' houses. New nurses' home (with T.F. Inglis), opened 21 Aug 1940; alts. |
| Refs: |
Advertisement for quantity surveyors for structural adds. & alts.(Oct 1934), for contractors to build medical officers' houses (Sep 1935), for contractors to build nurses' home (Oct 1937), for contractors to carry out alts. (Mar 1938), photographs of opening ceremony, 22 Aug 1940, in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100. Irish Times, 19 Oct 1934; IB 80, 19 Feb 1938, 131; 91, 11 Jun 1949, 550; B 172, 6 Jun 1946, 556-7(illus.); 185, 11 Dec 1953, 920 (illus.) |
| Building: | CO. WICKLOW, BRAY, QUINSBOROUGH ROAD, ROYAL CINEMA |
| Date: | 1935 |
| Nature: | New air-conditioned cinema in grounds of Royal Hotel, for Bray Cinema (1935), Ltd. . Opened 26 Jan 1935. Contractor: McNally & Co., East Wall, Dublin. |
| Refs: |
Newspaper cutting (illus.) in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100. |
| Building: | CO. TIPPERARY, KILLENAULE, TECHNICAL SCHOOL |
| Date: | 1935 |
| Nature: | Tenders invited for bulding new technical school, Apr 1935.. |
| Refs: |
Newspaper advertisement, 14 Sep 1935, in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100; Irish Times, 18 Apr 1935.. |
| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, PORTRANE, LUNATIC ASYLUM |
| Date: | 1935 |
| Nature: | Tenders invited for erecting 8 2-storey houses for staff and houses for assistant medical officer and assistant farm manager; also farm buildings &c., at Turvey Donabate. |
| Refs: |
Newspaper advertisements Mar & Sep 1935, in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100; Irish Times, 11 Mar 1935. |
| Building: | CO. TIPPERARY, ROSCREA, TECHNICAL SCHOOL |
| Date: | 1936 |
| Nature: | Alts. & repairs. Tenders invited, Aug 1936. |
| Refs: |
Advertisement, 21 Aug 1936, in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100. |
| Building: | CO. TIPPERARY, NEWCASTLE, TECHINICAL SCHOOL |
| Date: | 1936 |
| Nature: | New technical school for Tipperary (SR) Vocational Education Committee.. Tenders invited for erecting same., Jan 1936. |
| Refs: |
Advertisement, 24 Jan 1936, in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100. |
| Building: | CO. CARLOW, HACKETSTOWN, TECHNICAL SCHOOL |
| Date: | 1936-37 |
| Nature: | Tenders invited, Jul 1936, for erecting new technical school for Co. Carlow Vocational Education Committee. School opened, 25 Oct 1937. |
| Refs: |
Newspaper cuttings in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100. |
| Building: | CO. KILDARE, ATHY, COTTAGE HOSPITAL |
| Date: | 1936p |
| Nature: | New hospital, for Co. Kildare Board of Health and Public Assistance. Tenders invited for erecting same, Sep 1936. |
| Refs: |
IB 81, 2 Sep 1936, 766; another advertisement for tenders, 24 Sep 1936, in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100. |
| Building: | CO. CARLOW, TULLOW, HOUSES (118) |
| Date: | 1937 |
| Nature: | Tenders invited for erecting 118 houses (60 on Tullowphelim site, 32 on Templeowen site, 26 on Tullowbeg site), for Co. Carlow Board of Health. |
| Refs: |
Advertisement in Irish Independent, 2 Feb 1937, and report of Board of Health meeting n Nationalist and Leinster Times, 1 Jan 1938, in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100. |
| Building: | CO. MEATH, NAVAN, CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN'S SOCIETY HALL |
| Date: | 1937 |
| Nature: | New stage and sundry alterations, for Very Rev. Patrick Mulvany. |
| Refs: |
Advertisement for tenders, Mar 1937, in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100. |
| Building: | CO. WICKLOW, BRAY, QUINSBOROUGH ROAD, ROYAL HOTEL |
| Date: | 1937 |
| Nature: | Extensive improvements under new proprietors, Mssr. McPhillips and McGurk, of the Red Lion S Great George's Street.. Hotel reopened Sep 1937. |
| Refs: |
Newspaper cutting, 30 Sep 1937, in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100. |
| Building: | CO. SLIGO, SLIGO, TECHNICAL SCHOOL |
| Date: | 1937-1940 |
| Nature: | New technical school for Town of Sligo Vocational Education Committee. . Tenders invited for erecting same, Aug 1937, Nov 1938. Tenders invited for furnishing same, May 1940. |
| Refs: |
Advertisements for tenders, Aug 1937, Nov 1938, May 1940, and account of financial problems from Sligo Champion, 15 Oct 1938, in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100. |
| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ADELAIDE ROAD, ROYAL VICTORIA EYE & EAR HOSPITAL |
| Date: | 1937;1939 |
| Nature: | Adds. & alts., with F.G. Hicks. Tenders invited, Oct 1937. Tenders invited for renewal of drainage system, Apr 1939. Tenders invited for entrance drive, gates, railings, Aug 1939. |
| Refs: |
Advertisements for tenders, 14 Oct 1937, Apr 1939, 21 Aug 1939, in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100. |
| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, HILL STREET (& TEMPLE LANE), HOUSING SCHEME |
| Date: | 1937a |
| Nature: | Scheme of 'bright looking block of ten self-contained flats' and 2-storey houses, for Holy Child Housing Society. Block of flats opened by Lord Mayor, 8 Sep 1937. . |
| Refs: | IB 79, 4 Sep 1937, 776-7 (information from Vincent Delany, Dublin, Apr 2022); Irish Times, 9 Sep 1937 (photograph of opening ceremony in Weekly Irish Times, 15 Sep 1937) |
| Building: | CO. CORK, CORK, WILTON CROSS, REGIONAL HOSPITAL |
| Date: | 1938 |
| Nature: | Proposed new hospital. Not executed. |
| Refs: |
B 185, 11 Dec 1853, 914(illus.); Paul Larmour, Free State Architecture: Modern Movement architecture in Ireland, 1922-1949 (Kinsale: Gandon Editions, 2009), 34,37(illus.). |
| Building: | CO. CARLOW, BORRIS, TECHNICAL SCHOOL |
| Date: | 1938 |
| Nature: | New, L-plan technical school. |
| Refs: |
Loose photograph in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100. |
| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, PORTRANE, LUNATIC ASYLUM |
| Date: | 1939 |
| Nature: | Tenders invited for new wing for nurses' home, Apr 1939. |
| Refs: |
Advertisement, 22 Apr 1939, in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100. |
| Building: | CO. KILDARE, CELBRIDGE, DOCTOR'S RESIDENCE & DISPENSARY |
| Date: | 1940 |
| Nature: | Tenders invited for erection of same, Jan 1940. |
| Refs: |
Advertisement, 18 Jan 1940, in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100. |
| Building: | CO. KILDARE, KILCULLEN, DOCTOR'S RESIDENCE & DISPENSARY |
| Date: | 1940 |
| Nature: | Tenders invited for erection of same, Jan 1940. For Co. Kildare Board of Health. |
| Refs: |
Advertisement, 18 Jan 1940, in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100. |
| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FREDERICK STREET SOUTH, NO. 003 (ICI) |
| Date: | 1941 |
| Nature: | - |
| Refs: | IB 83, 11 Oct 1941, 472 |
| Building: | CO. WICKLOW, BALTINGLASS, DISTRICT HOSPITAL |
| Date: | 1951 |
| Nature: | Tenders invited for erecting adds. For Wicklow County Council. |
| Refs: | IAA, PKS 0603; IB 93, 7 Jul 1951, 728 |
| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, PORTRANE, LUNATIC ASYLUM |
| Date: | 1953-56 |
| Nature: | Pavilion blocks. |
| Refs: | F. O'Dwyer, Irish Hospital Architecture: a pictorial history (1997), 19 |
| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FLEET STREET, NO. 040-44 (ELECTRICITY SUPPLY BOARD OFFICES & SHOWROOMS) |
| Date: | 1960a |
| Nature: | New building with curtain walling. |
| Refs: | Architectural Survey (1960), 28(illus.) |
| Building: | CO. TIPPERARY, THURLES, CEMETERY |
| Date: | ? |
| Nature: | Proposed new entrance to cemetery. |
| Refs: | Drawing in IAA Workhouse Drawings Collection, Acc. 85/138.124 |
| Building: | CO. DUBLIN, LUCAN, BUS SHELTER |
| Date: | ? |
| Nature: | New bus shelter in coursed rubble with flat roof. |
| Refs: |
B 185, 11 Dec 1953, 920(illus.) |
| Author | Title | Date | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kelly, Vincent | 'Modern hospitals' problems: Ireland's effort towards a solution' |
Irish Independent, 25 Jul 1933 ( in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100). |
|
| Kelly, Vincent | 'Two Dublin transformer stations' |
1931 | Architect & Building News 126, 19 Jun 1931, 396. |
| Kelly, Vincent | [President's inagural address to AAI] | 1935 | AAI Green Book Book (1936), 25-34. |
| Kelly, Vincent | 'Rehospitalisation in Eire' | 1939 | Centenary Celebration of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland and Conference of The Royal Institute of British Architects 21st to 24th June 1939, 48-64 |
| Kelly, Vincent | [President's inaugural address to RIAI] |
1944 | RIAI Year Book (1943 & 1944), 4-9. |