Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

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.