Bantry Library: Bantry’s Brutalist Bibliotheque
- Free
- Bantry Library
- 19/07/2024 - 5:00 pm
Bantry Library opened to the public in 1974 and has been serving the local community for the past fifty years. Architect and Bantry native Dermot Harrington has published Bantry Library: Bantry’s Brutalist Bibliotheque, an architectural archive celebrating Bantry Library’s fiftieth anniversary.
Dermot will be joined by Harry Wallace, original Project Architect, and original contractors from Murnane & OʼShea Building Contractors, Jerry ‘Jer’ OʼSullivan and John OʼNeill along with Donal Hunt who was the M&OS workshop foreman for a conversation about the origins of this iconic building.
The photo of Bantry Library under construction is from Harry Wallace’s photo archive
Bantry Library: Bantry’s Brutalist Bibliotheque is an architectural archive celebrating Bantry Library’s fiftieth anniversary. It explores the conception and construction of one of Ireland’s finest examples of modern architecture. Cork County Architect Patrick McSweeney’s experimental ‘warehouse of knowledge’ emerged as Ireland experienced unprecedented socio-economic and cultural transformation in the 1960s and 1970s. With contributions from critic Shane O’Toole and project architect Harry Wallace, this book captures a sense of that radical time and the arrival of a brutalist, space-age megalith to West Cork. This story is presented with original drawings, models, evocative images of the library’s construction, and newly-commissioned photography and illustrations. It is published by Gandon Editions in Kinsale.
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