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IE CA HA/1/5/1
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Letter to Fr. Columbus Maher from Walter Glynn Doolin
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- 19 Dec. 1889 (Creation)
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4 pp; Manuscript
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(1615-2023)
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Letter to Fr. Columbus Maher OSFC from Walter Glynn Doolin, architect and civil engineer, 20 Ely Place, Dublin, regarding the design of the proposed Father Mathew Temperance Hall, Church Street. Doolin referred to Fr. Maher’s ‘instructions to provide a Hall capable of seating 1,000 persons exclusive of a permanent stage’ and submits detailed plans for the dimensions and layout of the Hall. Doolin affirmed that ‘there are upwards of 150,000 cubic feet in the building and I do not see how this amount of work can be done for much under £2,000’.
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For biographical information on Walter Glynn Doolin (1850-1902) see https://www.dia.ie/architects/view/1575/DOOLIN%2C+WALTER+GLYNN