Falkiner— 7/^^b^'>Y///o;^s of Commevcial Hintory of Dublin. 147 



beneatii it. It seems right that in tliis notice of tlie Society the pedigree 

 of this painting should he preserved so far as it can he collected from 

 the records of the Society. 



The painting appears to have heen presented to the Society as far 

 back as 1752 by Alderman John Macarrell, the then captain of the 

 Galley. "Wli ether or not it was a merely fancy picture, or an 

 authentic representation of the actual ship from whicli the Society 

 took its name, cannot he stated, for nothing further is known of tlie 

 date of the picture or of the artist. In the minutes of the meeting 

 of the Galley held at Chapclizod in August, 1753, a receipt is in- 

 serted, in which one John Morris acknowledges the receipt of "a 

 large painted piece representing the Ouzel Galley, which is put up in 

 the great room in my house," and admits the picture to he the pro- 

 perty of the Galley. Morris was probably the owner of the inn or 

 tavern in which the Society was then in the habit of meeting. 



Nineteen years later, 16th July, 1772, the minutes record tlie 

 appointment of a committee "to inquire after and recover the picture 

 of the Galley presented to the Society by Alderman Macarrell," but 

 the result of the inquiry is not given in any subsequent minute. It 

 may be presumed, however, that the picture was recovered, and is 

 identical with that which still hangs in the Chamber of Commerce, 

 and is thus referred to in the entry for 3rd June, 1870 : — " That the 

 offer of the Chamber of Commerce to place the old painting of the 

 Galley in a more conspicuous place be accepted." 



[No account of the Ouzel Galley Society has ever appeared in 

 print, save a brief notice in Whitelaw & Walsh's " Histoiy of 

 Dublin," vol. ii., p. 914. The account given above of the origin of 

 the Society, and its history prior to 1753, is not sustained by any 

 documentary authority, but is derived from oral tradition preserved 

 among its members. The writer has to express his cordial obliga- 

 tions to Mr. E. F. S. Colvill, of Coolock — whose father, the late 

 James Chaigneau Colvill, was the senior officer of the Society at 

 the date of its dissolution — for much information and assistance. 

 To Mr. Colvill, also, as the custodian of the glass cup and silver 

 whistle, and the possessor of one of the medals shown in the illustra- 

 tions, the Academy is indebted for permission to photograph these 

 interesting relics. — C. L. F.] 



