[1] Educated by the Jesuits at Belvedere College, Alfred pursued a variety of careers before becoming apprenticed to the architectural practice of Ashlin & Coleman c. 1911.

He first attracted notice about this time when his measured drawing of the ceiling of Belvedere's Apollo Room was featured in the Irish Builder.

A design for an iron railing and gate which won him the gold medal at the Father Matthew Feis, two years later, was published in the same journal.

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.

[14] 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.

The latter who worked in the practice between 1923 and 1926, and much later designed Dublin's Busáras (bus station) and other buildings in the modern style, regarded Jones & Kelly's preoccupation with the Gothic, Renaissance or Romanesque as a straitjacket which was out of date and outmoded.

[15] His grandson Alfred E Jones 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 Clarinda Park, Dun Laoghaire, AE Jones lived in 7 AILESBURY ROAD, Dublin, Ireland - photo's archived here.