Vintage view: Architect, Shane O'Toole's new collection of writing from 1999-2016

A delicious ambiguity is contained in the title of Shane O’Toole’s One Hundred and One Hosannas for Architecture. In terms of the architecture of Ireland, is it a hymn of praise or a plea for salvation?

Here are 101 essays on everything from the Glucksman and Crawford galleries in Cork to Calatrava’s Irish bridges, the Bocconi university in Milan for which Grafton Architects won the World Building of the Year Award in 2008; Christ the King in Cork (with a gleaming newly- cleaned facade), Liam McCormick’s church at Burt in County Donegal; Eileen Gray’s E 1027; the Ha’penny Bridge; a house at Bohermore and social housing at the Timberyard in Dublin.

St Angela’s College in Cork is included and the University Church in Dublin too, as the first Byzantine basilica to be built, north of the Alps.