John Joseph Farrell (c. 1871 – 31 May 1854)[1] was an Irish businessman and politician.
Farrell is recorded in the 1911 census of Ireland, when he was Lord Mayor of Dublin and living in the Mansion House.
[3] He had business interests in several cinemas in Dublin, and was the managing director of the Irish Kinematograph Company.
[4] In 1917, he claimed £77 10s for damage caused by gunfire during the 1916 Easter Rising to a building owned by the Irish Kinematograph Company in O'Connell Street.
[5] On 10 February 1920, his home in Drumcondra was raided by British forces, under the DORA act.