Galway Hospital
During the 1930's a serious effort was made to improve hospital facilities in
the Irish Republic. In some cases this was using funds from the Irish Hospitals
Sweep. Not all the hospitals designed in this period were started by the
time World War II broke out and several designs consequently never got beyond
the planning stage. In general, postwar building used updated plans and often
different architects.
The University Hospital in Galway on the West Coast is unusual in that part of the design shown above was completed to a distinctly 1930's design, and the remainder was built post war to a differing design between 1949 and 1955, but by the same firm of architects, T J Cullen & Co. The original master design plan for the hospital dated from 1932 but between 1933 and 1938 only a first phase was built, comprising a nurses home with common facilities on the ground floor of a three and partly four story block. This still stands, slightly the worse for wear, as the only part of the hospital constructed to the original design. It does give an interesting indication of what the original design would have looked like.
former Savoy Cinema,Galway, now closed has an art deco facade.