Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, WEST FRONT

Name: SHEEHAN, DAVID *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, WEST FRONT
Date: 1751ca
Nature: Employed as stonecutter on same.
Refs: W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), II, 349

Name: MAGILL, JOHN *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, WEST FRONT
Date: 1752-1758
Nature: JM contractor for same.
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 32,392.

Name: DARLEY, HUGH *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, WEST FRONT
Date: 1752-9
Nature: Work on West Front supervised by HD, who had been sent to London to procure designs for same. (North angle ready for roofing and part of West front being pulled down, 1755 (Universal Advertiser, 6 Mar 1755); finished by beginning of 1759 (|Pue's Occurrences|, 20 Jan 1759)
Refs: M. Craig, Dublin 1660-1860 (1952), 180n, citing JHCI, 14 Nov 1759, Account No. XXXV; 'TCD Vouchers etc.' (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); E.McParland, 'Trinity College, Dublin - II', Country Life, 13 May 1976, 1243-5; see also F. O'Dwyer, 'Building empires: architecture, politics and the Board of Works 1760-1860', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 5 (2002), 122ff.;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 391.

Name: TURNER, TIMOTHY *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, WEST FRONT
Date: 1752p
Nature: Wrought-iron balustrade to principal stair in Regent House.
Refs: Miriam O'Connor, 'Timothy Turner, an eighteenth-century Dublin ironsmith', Irish Arts Review 12 (1996), 142(illus.).Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 392.

Name: FOLEY, JOHN HENRY *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, WEST FRONT
Date: 1861
Nature: Statue of Oliver Goldsmith by main gate, electro cast by Elkington & Co., London.
Refs: John Turpin, 'Catalogue of the sculpture of J.H. Foley', Dublin Historical Record 32 (Jun 1979), 112;  Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture:  Native Genius Reaffirmed  (Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2010), 116(illus.).

Name: FOLEY, JOHN HENRY *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, WEST FRONT
Date: 1868
Nature: Statue of Edmund Burke in front of West Front of Trinity College, erected 1868. Electro cast by Elkington & Co., London.
Refs: W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), I, 361; John Turpin, 'Catalogue of the sculpture of J.H. Foley', Dublin Historical Record 32 (Jun 1979), 113;  Paula Murphy, Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture:  Native Genius Reaffirmed  (Yale University Press: New Haven & London, 2010), 116(illus.)