Rare Gandon drawings of Four Courts to go on view

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Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2008 / November 17

The King's Inns collection of valuable Gandon architectural drawings, including some of the Four Courts and the King's Inns itself, is to be transferred to the Irish Architectural Archive. Access by the public to this collection will be launched by the Chief Justice, Mr Justice John L Murray, at a ceremony in the architectural archive on Wednesday. This follows a decision by the benchers of King's Inns to make available its important collection of drawings to the archive, so that architects, historians and members of the public could have access to it. Commenting on this initiative by the benchers, the chairman of the council of King's Inns, Conor Maguire SC, said that the King's Inns had for many years debated the best way to display its collection of drawings. "The Inns was aware that it was almost impossible to satisfy every request made by members of the public to see the drawings," he said.

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