Bantry Libraryis one of Ireland’s most unusual examples of Modernist architecture. It was designed in 1962 by the Cork County Council architect Patrick McSweeney, and the project was developed and overseen by his assistant, Harry Wallace. The design is said to have been conceived when McSweeney and his daughter were recovering from the ’flu and to pass the time he made a model of a library building. His excitement with this design led him to present the model to a Convention of Librarians in Dublin, where it was enthusiastically received. Ten years later, after muchlocal controversyabout how the funding should be spent, the iconic building of Bantry library was built and it has been a wonderful asset to the people of Bantry ever since.
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https://www.bantry.ie/things-to-do/indoor/bantry-library/