Rathmines - Notable People Associated With Rathmines

Notable People Associated With Rathmines

• Cathal Brugha, Irish Nationalist, leader lived on Rathmines Road.
• Nora Connolly O'Brien, second daughter of James Connolly, she was an activist and writer; she was also a member of the Irish Senate. She lived on Belgrave Square, Rathmines.
• Michael Cleary (priest) lived on Rathmines road when the controversy about his child was first reported.
• Frederick William Cumberland (1820–1881), architect, railway manager and politician, grew up in Rathmines. His father Thomas was employed at Dublin Castle.
• Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, British admiral of the Second World War.
• James and Eugene Davy, the brothers that founded Davy Stockbrokers, were brought up in 29 Terenure Road.
• Vincent Dowling, Director of the Arts, born the sixth of seven children in Rathmines.
• Paddy Finucane, Second World War fighter pilot, was born in Rathmines.
• Richard Henry Geoghegan lived at 41 Upper Rathmines Road. He was the first Esperantist in the English-speaking world and was a friend of Irish Nationalist leader Joseph Mary Plunkett. He designed the original official Esperanto flag.
• Grace Gifford, an Irish artist and cartoonist who was active in the Republican movement, was born in Rathmines. She married Joseph Plunkett in 1916 only a few hours before he was executed.
• Lafcadio Hearn, ghost-story writer who settled in Japan, was brought up in Rathmines.
• The Earl of Longford had a large house in the Grosvenor park area of the Leinster road between Rathmines and Harold's Cross. The house was demolished and replaced with a modern housing estate in recent decades.
• Éamonn MacThomáis Born in Rathmines in 1927 was an author, broadcaster, historian, Republican, advocate of the Irish Language and lecturer. Noted for numerous RTE documentaries on his native Dublin.
• Constance Markievicz, Irish Revolutionary, in 1903 after a visit to the Ukraine, she and her husband Casimir Markievicz returned to live in a house provided by the Constance's mother in Rathmines to bring up her daughter maeve and stepson Stanislaus.
• John Mitchel was living with his family at 8 Ontario Terrace when he was arrested in 1848.
• Conor Cruise O'Brien was born in 1917 in Rathmines, the only child of Francis Cruise O'Brien, a journalist who worked for the Freeman's Journal and Kathleen Sheehy.
• Walter Osborne, a famous Irish impressionist painter, was born at 5 Castlewood Ave.
• George William Russell was educated at Rathmines School.
• Francis Sheehy-Skeffington, Irish suffragist, pacifist and writer, lived in 11 Grosvenor Place Rathmines.
• Annie M. P. Smithson, novelist, nurse and Nationalist, lived at 12 Richmond Hill until her death.
• Maev-Ann Wren, journalist, economist, author, grew up in Rathmines.