BIRD AVENUE IN CLONSKEAGH

BIRD AVENUE IN CLONSKEAGH

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BIRD AVENUE AND NEARBY - THE AREA IS DOMINATED BY A VERY LARGE CHURCH


In the 1950s, Archbishop McQuaid did not tolerate any challenges to his self awarded authority and this frequently led to occasional tensions with secular elements in society. And when I was young I was at the receiving end but is is a complicated story which I will not discuss here. One famous conflict, which McQuaid totally won, was over the design of a new church on Bird Avenue in Clonskeagh. The competition attracted a record 101 entries and the submissions which most impressed the assessors were all modernist in style but the winning entry was a design by Thomas J Ryan, a young architect employed with the OPW.



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