North by Northwest: The life and work of Liam McCormick

Authors: O’Toole, Shane, Larmour. The authors describe the works of Liam McCormick as ” some of the most important and memorable of the modern period in Ireland.” McCormick embraced a wide variety of building types, from churches and schools to social housing and private dwellings. In particular, a series of impressive churches is testimony to his position as the most accomplished Irish architect of his generation as well as the leading patron of modern Irish church art. This high quality book is packed with McCormick’s own collection of photographs of his buildings, along with other memorabilia such as private papers, correspondence and newspaper clippings. This offers the reader a rare insight into the life of one of the greatest Irish architects of the twentieth century.