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design competition. They remained in practice, under the title 'Jones & Kelly' until Kelly's death in 1951. Subsequently, Jones took his son Felix Alfred Jones and his elder daughter, Elisabeth
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Alfred Jones was a man whose interests ranged well beyond the confines of his profession to embrace the historical, artistic and sporting. He had a lifelong interest in
Archaeology and Egyptology. In the last decades of his life he devoted much of his time in producing a comprehensive
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Tallaght, County Dublin, on 2 July. He was survived by his wife of 50 years Mary (née Ardiff) (1892–1986), and by his three children: Elizabeth, Felix, and Marie, a distinguished musician. Elizabeth and Felix maintained the practice of Jones & Kelly after their father's death.
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Alfred Jones & Stephen Kelly had a wide-ranging practice, involving the design of ecclesiastical and educational structures as well as cinemas, theatres, manufacturing plants, commercial buildings and housing schemes. Among their most notable achievements were:
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For the first quarter century of its existence Jones & Kelly was a practice of the old school, offering apprenticeships to applicants, over a hundred of who were indentured until the mid-1940s. Several were later to become notable Irish architects, including
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modernised the practice and designed some modern buildings such as 'The Marr House' in South Park, Howth. His main buildings are renovation and redevelopment of protected structures such as 'Stoneview' in
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Vincent O’Rourke. Later that year he set up practice with Stephen Stanislaus Kelly whom he had known since childhood. In 1920, they won the competition for
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National Stadium) had been designed by Jones & Kelly. Alfred was also a trustee of the organisation and served as its president for over 20 years.
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The practice was then taken over by his grandson, also named Alfred E. Jones, who carried on the practice until 2022. He was a fine designer and winner of The
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