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Clondalkin library, Dublin, designed by T.J. Byrne and opened in 1910. Curbside Hours: Closed. The purpose of the meeting was to ask Carnegie to increase the grant for the Rathkeale libraries by £1,000, and he agreed to do so. Original building now a mosque. The libraries in the cities were almost invariably managed and used as Carnegie intended them to be. Architectural Critic Patricia Lowry calls them "Pittsburgh's most significant cultural export".[1]. About £40 per annum would usually be regarded by Carnegie as a minimum sum to maintain a small library. Click on a location below to learn more Copyright © 2020 History Publications Ltd, Unit 9, 78 Furze Road, Sandyford, Dublin 18, Ireland | Tel. Of the 2,509 libraries built by Andrew Carnegie, it was the only public library granted permission to use both his first and last names.

Not only did O’Donnell use all the persuasion he could muster to get the Kerry councils to adopt the Libraries Act and build libraries but he (and John P. Boland) initiated the Public Libraries (Ireland) Act 1902. An 1893 expansion doubled the size of the building and includes the third Carnegie Music Hall in the US, a Gymnasium, and a swimming pool (currently out of use).