Raymond Refaussé

If you want to know anything about guilds in Dublin this is the book. It starts off with an introduction, and history of Guilds in Dublin, of which only one survives the abolition in the 1840's (The Guild of Goldsmiths) and then follows with the Trade and Craft Guilds; The Religious Guilds and the Military Guilds. The appendices list various other things like Dublin Guild halls etc.

While there are possibly more documents that have surfaced since then it is still a very useful resource.

One of the strangest pieces of information that I found in it was that as well as braziers, founders, glaziers, pattern-makers, pewterers, pin-makers, tinplate-workers, trunk-makers, ironmongers and girdlers the Guild of Smiths also included Embroiderers...

For example:
Hosiers and Knitters
Patron: St. George
[Illustration of crest here]

The guild of hosiers and knitters was founded in 1688 by royal charter (4 James II) and was twenty first in order of precedence in the Dublin City Assembly. The swearing-in day was the feast of St. George (23 April). The guild colours (1767) were white, blue and copper.

Meeting-places: from around 1783 to 18-1, the guild meet in Tailor's Hall; in 1807, it met in Hoey's Court; from 1808 to 1811 in the City Assembly House; and from 1816 ti 1841 at Weavers' Hall, the Coombe.
Records Surviving: None known to survive.
Transcripts surviving:
- Notes on hosiers' guild (National Archives, TA 1447)
Artifacts surviving:
- Guild chest, 1688 (NMI) [footnote: For description see E R McClintock Dix, "Old Dublin Guild Chest" in RSAI Jn, XXVI (1896), p390. The chest was transferred to the National Museum by 1922.]… (meer)