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In the early 1950's the concept of a roof like this on a church in rural Ireland would have been quite the subject of discussion. The opinions would have been mixed no doubt with pro's and con's but as it is well on the way in this O'Dea image the argument has been won! I wonder what it looks like now?
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Photographer: James P. O'Dea
Collection:James P. O'Dea
Date: September 25th 19564
NLI Ref.: ODEA 40/62
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I hope you all got over the travails of Halloween? If you've become a Zombie or Vampire we look forward with interest to your contributions from that different point of view;-D
Photographer: James P. O'Dea
Collection:James P. O'Dea
Date: September 25th 19
NLI Ref.: ODEA 40/62
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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O Mac
I think that should be 1964.
suckindeesel
St. Dominic’s Catholic Church, now the public library
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Flickr is sometimes on the other side of St Dominic's. In 2009 via https://www.flickr.com/photos/feargal/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/feargal/3765929956/ "A roof structure for a hanger or the like in which first and second roof sections having the shapes of parts of respective first and second hyperbolic paraboloids, having common base lines are joined along a line lying on the locus of an arch common to the two paraboloids to form a roof having openings of predetermined height between spaced roof supports. Reinforcing girders around the edges of the roof are formed with triangular cross sections made up of hyperbolic paraboloid surfaces joined by vertical edges.
suckindeesel
Google Earth Link earth.app.goo.gl/i8bxgP #googleearth
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25 September 1964 was a Friday ... Mr O'Dea went up on to the roof - catalogue.nli.ie/Search/Results?lookfor=church+roof+Athy+...
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Changed to 1964
suckindeesel
www.rte.ie/culture/2022/0308/1285151-100-buildings-athy-l...
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Mr O'Dea returned in April 1965 and went inside the completed church - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000307226
Niall McAuley
Streetview. Nothing in the DIA today, but the NIAH has this article.
suckindeesel
I remember using the old library and wondered where it had got to on a recent Athy visit. catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000306176 appears to be taken, in true O’Dea fashion, from what is now a disused railway bridge over the river. This is all that is left of the former branch to Wolfhill colliery. This branch line was built by the United Kingdom government in 1918 to alleviate wartime coal shortages in Ireland. It later served the now closed Tegral (Asbestos Cement) factory.
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There is/was a similarly shaped building in Reno, Nevada, with a glass front, used as a planetarium.
John Spooner
I couldn't find much discussion of the building when it was built, just - "one of the most striking modern churches in Europe" (New Ross Standard - Saturday 12 June 1965) - "one of the most modern churches in Ireland" (Belfast Telegraph -Wednesday 24 March 1965) - "startling new church" (New Ross Standard - Saturday 03 July 1965) - "I was amazed at the number of people going to visit that splendid church in Athy. On one Sunday evening more than 1,000 came to see it. If we put up a significant building for a useful function and of aesthetic value, it will uplift the whole town." (New Ross Standard yet again - Saturday 25 September 1965 ) I was expecting to find at least a token opinion against the design from Disgusted of (e.g.) New Ross, but I found nothing but admiration for it.
John Spooner
I knew it reminded me of something flic.kr/p/2gxkJxz
doravelasquezosorio
Me encanta
john durrant
Buildings like this always give me thoughts about the size of architects egos.
dermotjk
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ the Tegral factory remains in operation but it no longer manufactures cement. Its main product is roof tiles
suckindeesel
Just as well, I can remember the run off flowing into a nearby stream. It was completely white in colour, no prizes for guessing what that was