NO 73 MERRION SQUARE, DUBLIN 2 - Irish Traditional Music Archive

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No 73 Merrion Square, Dublin 2
1825–1835 Very Reverend Honourable Henry Montague
Browne, Glebe House, Mullingar 15
Browne (1799–1884), son of James Caulfield Browne,
2nd Baron Kilmaine, Co Mayo, was later Dean of
Lismore of the Church of Ireland. He was married to the
Honourable Catherine Penelope de Montmorency,
daughter of Lodge Evans Morres/ de Montmorency,
Baron Frankfort, and was an executor of the latter’s will.
1835–1865 William Smith, Lisaniskeir, Co Dublin, barrister 16
Smith (born 1801) was the eldest son of Aquila Smith of
Dublin and Catherine Doolan, and was educated at
Gray’s Inn, London. 17 He was admitted to the Irish Bar
in 1839, 18 and was appointed Registrar of the Land
Commission in 1881. 19
1866–1898 Major Henry Taaffe-Farrell (later Ferrell) JP, DL,
Moylurg House, Boyle, Co Roscommon; Junior
United Services Club, London; Kildare Street Club 20
Ferrall (c. 1832–98) was a prominent Roscommon landowner,
Sheriff and Deputy Lieutenant for Co Roscommon,
and Hon. Lieutenant-Colonel of the 3rd Battalion of the
Connaught Rangers from 1877. A leading Irish Unionist and
a Catholic, he was also a long-term member of the Board of
Guardians of the South Dublin Union.
1898–1906 Mrs Alice Taaffe-Ferrall (née Keogh) 21
1907–1936 Professor Robert Dwyer Joyce, FRCS, MECSE,
ophthalmic and aural surgeon 22
Joyce (c. 1874–1959) was the son of Patrick Weston
Joyce (1827–1914), the famous Limerick-born
collector of Irish traditional music, historian and educationalist,
and was the nephew of the poet, song-writer
and medical doctor Robert Dwyer Joyce (1830–1883),
author of the songs ‘The Boys of Wexford’, ‘The Wind
that Shakes the Barley’, etc. He qualified in London in
1895 and become a Fellow of the Royal College of
Surgeons in Ireland in 1899. In the Census of 1911 he
is shown as an Irish speaker, living in no 73 with his
wife Mary and four daughters and three servants – a
parlour maid, a cook, and a servant maid. 23