Horace Tennyson O'Rourke

Biography O'Rourke was born in Dublin, the son of Francis P. O'Rourke and Martha Rafferty. He was educated at the Christian Brothers-run O'Brien Institute, Dublin and subsequently at Dublin Municipal School of Art. From 1905 to 1916 he worked with a number of private architectural practices in Limerick and Dublin. His architectural output while in private practice up to 1916 included a range of public and private commissions. He was an active member of the Dublin Civic Week committees in 1927 and 1929, and most of his public addresses and pronouncements during the 1930s were more concerned with town planning than architecture. He became a member of the Royal Town Planning Institute, which awarded him a distinction in town planning in 1942.

Publications O'Rourke, Horace Tennyson, & the Dublin Civic Survey Committee (1925) The Dublin Civic Survey for the Civics Institute of Ireland, Liverpool: University Press of Liverpool