Published on Thursday30thJanuary2014

Irish Practice wins major International Architectural Competition for Glasnevin Centenary Chapel

Arts Minister Jimmy Deenihan with principal designer of the winning project Emer O'Daly, O'Daly Architects and John Green, Chairman of Glasnevin Trust.

Arts Minister Jimmy Deenihan with principal designer of the winning project Emer O'Daly, O'Daly Architects and John Green, Chairman of Glasnevin Trust

O'Daly Architects, Rathgar, Dublin has been chosen as the winner of an international Architectural competition to design a Chapel to commemorate the 232 people who died in the 1916 Easter Week Rising and who were interred in Glasnevin Cemetery. The competition was organised by the RIAI on behalf of the Glasnevin Trust, part the non-denominational Dublin Cemeteries Committee, the body which administers Glasnevin Cemetery.