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McDonnell, Daniel

Dates Active in Dublin: 

1793–1823

Business Type: 
Music publisher
Music seller
Musical instrument maker: harpsichord
Musical instrument maker: piano
Address(es): 

26 Fleet Street, 1793–c. 1802
28 Fleet Street, 1801–03
12 Anglesea Street, c. 1804–15
6 Crow Street, 1823
2 Crow Street, c. 1824

Details: 

Succeeded the business of Pemberton & McDonnell. After the partnership was dissolved, McDonnell continued at 26 Fleet Street and Pemberton moved to 38 Fleet Street.

[Dates and addresses differ according to sources: the Dublin Directories give 26 Fleet Street with Pemberton from 1790 to 1802, 28 Fleet Street, 12 Anglesea Street from 1801 to 1815 and 6 Crow Street in 1823 . Teahan gives 26 Fleet Street from 1793 to 1800, 28 Fleet Street from 1801 to 1803 and 12 Anglesea Street from 1804 to 1815. Hogan gives 2 Church Lane from c. 1790 to 1810 (but as no other McDonnell is listed, this is assumed to be in reference to Alexander) and 2 Crow Street c. 1824. Kerry gives 2 Church Lane from 1790 to 1810 specifically for Daniel, but without citation and with no reference to Alexander.]

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Produced

  • Piano (3): National Museum of Ireland (Gogan)
  • Harpsichord, 1804. Mark: 'Daniel McDonnell, 12 Anglesea St., Dublin' (Flood)
    • See Also: 

    McDonnell, Alexander
    McDonnell, James
    McDonnell, John
    Pemberton, Jacob
    Pemberton & McDonnell

    Source(s): 

    Dublin Directories

    Flood, W.H. Grattan, 'Dublin Harpsichord and Pianoforte Makers of the Eighteenth Century', The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 5th ser., 39.2 (1909), 137–45 (p. 143)

    Gogan, L.S., 'Musical Instrument Collections in the National Museum of Ireland', in Music in Ireland: a Symposium, ed. by Aloys Fleischmann (Cork: Cork University Press, 1952), pp. 299–307 (p. 304)

    Teahan, John, 'A List of Irish Instrument Makers', The Galpin Society Journal, 16 (May 1963), 28–32 (p. 30)

    Hogan, Ita Margaret, Anglo-Irish Music 1780–1830 (Cork: Cork University Press, 1966), p. 103

    Doyle, Paul, ‘18th Century Musical Instruments in the National Museum Dublin, with notes on an English Guitar 1764 by Gibson of Dublin’, FOMRHI Quarterly, 13 (October 1978), 21-24 (p. 21)

    Boydell, Brian, ‘McDonnell, Alex (1)’, Dublin Music Trade Card Index <http://dublinmusictrade.ie/card-index>

    Boydell, Brian, ‘McDonnell, Alex (2)', Dublin Music Trade Card Index <http://dublinmusictrade.ie/card-index>

    Boydell, Brian, ‘McDonnell, Alex(ander) and family’, Dublin Music Trade Card Index <http://dublinmusictrade.ie/card-index>