Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MARLBOROUGH STREET, TYRONE HOUSE
Name: | CASTLE, RICHARD |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MARLBOROUGH STREET, TYRONE HOUSE |
Date: | 1740 |
Nature: | New free-standing house, of 2-storeys and attic over basement. For Marcus Beresford, Viscount Tyrone. |
Refs: |
G.N. Wright, Historical Guide to Dublin (2nd ed., 1821), 255; The Knight of Glin, 'Richard Castle, architect, his biography and works' in BIGS 7, no. 1 (Jan - Mar 1964), 32-38; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 152-4. |
Name: | LAFRANCHINI, PAOLO * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MARLBOROUGH STREET, TYRONE HOUSE |
Date: | 1740ca |
Nature: | Saloon ceiling and perhaps stairwelll attr. to Paolo and Filippo Lafranchini by Palumbo-Fossati. 3 of 1st-floor reception rooms 'have old-fashioned geometric ceilings, reminiscent of 1730s designs by Paolo Lafranchini preserved in the collection of James Gibbs' (Casey). |
Refs: |
Carlo Palumbo-Fossati, Gli Stuccatori Ticinesi Lafranchini in Inghilterra e in Irlanda nel Secolo XVIII (Fondazione Ticino Nostro, Lugano, 1982), 66-67; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 153-4. |
Name: | FARRELL & SONS * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MARLBOROUGH STREET, TYRONE HOUSE |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Statue of Sir Alexander McDonnell in front of Tyrone House by Thomas Farrell. |
Refs: |
W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), I, 338; Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture: Native Genius Reaffirmed (Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2010), 234. |