MAGUIRE, MICHAEL *

Ornamental plasterworker, of Dublin, who worked on the rebuilding of St Werburgh's Church of Ireland church between 1755 and 1759(1) and for FRANCIS SANDYS  FRANCIS SANDYS on a house in Dawson Street in 1789.(2) Possibly the same person as the 'Mr Macquire, Dublin' who was a subscriber to Richardson's Book of Ceilings composed in the Stile of the Antique Grotesque (1776).

References

(1) C.P. Curran, Ornamental Dublin Plasterwork (1967), 16.
(2) Curran, op. cit., 104, citing Bolger MSS; Maguire is not mentioned in E.McP's transcript from these MSS. however.

2 work entries listed in chronological order for MAGUIRE, MICHAEL *

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Building:	CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WERBURGH STREET, ST WERBURGH'S CHURCH (CI)
Date:	1755-59
Nature:	Plasterwork in chancel.
Refs:	Rev. S.C. Hughes, The Church of S. Werburgh, Dublin (1889), 31; C.P. Curran, Ornamental Dublin Plasterwork (1967), 16.

Building:	CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, DAWSON STREET, HOUSE
Date:	1789
Nature:	Plasterwork for Francis Sandys (architect) measured by Bryan Bolger.
Refs:	C.P. Curran, Ornamental Dublin Plasterwork (1967), 104, citing Bolger MSS; however Maguire is not mentioned in E.McP's transcript from these MSS.