courthouse

Any idea why the Courthouse might be of interest to the Irish Tourist Association?

No idea why the ITA was interested, but it is an attractive building. Flickr is sometimes on the other side. In 2017 via Darryl Bond who says ... "Originally built as Athy's wooden corn exchange in the 1850s, but being tremendously unsuccessful in this role due to poor ventilation it was repurposed as a courthouse in the late 1800s. Burnt down by a lone-wolf IRA member who was later court martialled by said outfit, the building was rebuilt in a most impressive form using stone in 1928. Foley and O’Sullivan were the architects."

Hmm! It looks like the old building was also stone - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000041589

Equity productions first tour started at Arklow on 26th March 1944, and played at Waterford in Easter week. It was "a new company of professional actors and actresses who are working on a Co-op (profit-sharing) basis " (Waterford Standard - Saturday 29 January 1944).

beachcomber australia Seems like a little more information than available from the NIAH record#11505116 for Athy Courthouse, Emily square, Athy, though that does confirm build date of 1858 and original use as a corn exchange. It is describes as "Freestanding seven-bay two-storey Tudor Revival" with "ingle-storey open arcades to east and west sides, lower single-bay single-storey former porch to north end, two-storey judiciary rooms to south. It also said to service the wee matter of having public toilets and the social services office is there also.

c. 1865? See also ...

GoogleMapsStreetView - goo.gl/maps/9mDqT

My neck of the woods a few years down the track

Bundaberg Court House was designed by George St Paul Connolly, acting Queensland Colonial Architect in the Queensland Department of Public Works. Connolly joined the Department in 1872 and worked on both public and private buildings, under the direction of Colonial Architect F.D.G. Stanley. The Bundaberg Court House followed the "T" shape design developed during the nineteenth century. The major consideration in the design and planning of the Bundaberg Court House was the allowance for the correct movement of people in the building and the separation of the different groups involved in the judicial process. The verandahs at the rear of the building allowed for specifically delineated entrances to the buildings. Jurors and barristers entered the courthouse by an alternative route to the public on their way to the public spaces. The judges had a private entrance and lobby via the rear verandah. The prisoners would be brought directly from the police cells to the courtroom through the side verandah door, from the nearby police reserve. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundaberg_Police_Station#:~:text=Bu....