Irish Independent/1928/Late Mr. Joseph Maguire, B.L.

Late Mr. Joseph Maguire, B.L.

We regret to announce the death of Mr. Joseph Maguire, B.L., at his residence, 14 Elgin Road. Born in 1851, Mr. Maguire was a son of the late James Maguire, J.P., Banbridge. He entered the Civil Service on the staff of the Registry of Deeds, in which he became chief clerk. While in the Deeds Office, Mr. Maguire published his well-known work on the Registration of Deeds, now recognised as a standard text-book. He contributed from time to time various papers and letters on the law of Land Transfer and analogous subjects. He was an active member of the Statistical Society, to which he contributed numerous papers. His last illness prevented the completion of a biographical work of national and historic interest, which with a number of smaller items in prose and verse remains unpublished.

In 1912, Mr. Maguire was elected Alderman on Dublin Corporation in the National interest, having been a staunch Home Ruler all his life. About the same time he became a director of the "Freeman's Journal." He was an active and zealous poor law guardian during the Great War, and he vigorously supported the campaign against conscription in Ireland.

Among other interests of the late Mr. Maguire were the promotion of housing by means of the Small Dwellings Acquisition Act, the provision of a suitable home for the Lane pictures, and their remedying of the economic disabilities of the Irish railways.