Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, SMOCK ALLEY, THEATRE ROYAL

Name: WILLS, MICHAEL
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, SMOCK ALLEY, THEATRE ROYAL
Date: 1735
Nature: New theatre begun May 1735. Opened Dec 1735. Replaced by church of SS Michael & John (RC), which incorporates part of fabric of theatre..
Refs: Christine Casey, '"De architectura": an Irish eighteenth-century gloss', Architectural History 37 (1994), 88;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 347.