Page "Irish Social Season" Paragraph 3

With the abolition of the lord lieutenancy in 1922, the emergence of a new nationalist state ( the Irish Free State ) the same year, and the economic and social downturn that resulted from World War I, the Social Season dwindled and then died.

Most of the aristrocratic homes in Merrion Square and Fitzwilliam Square were sold and are now used as corporate offices.