Editing Rathmines (section)

===Easter Rising, War of Independence & Civil War===
On 25 April 1916, during the [[Easter Rising]], Captain John Bowen-Colthurst, an officer of the 3rd battalion [[Royal Irish Rifles]], went on a raiding party in Rathmines holding [[Francis Sheehy-Skeffington]] as hostage. At Rathmines Road, he shot dead 19-year-old James Joseph Coade of 28 Mountpleasant Avenue. Coade had been attending a [[Sodality]] meeting at the nearby Catholic Church of Our Lady of Refuge.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.awm.gov.au/journal/j39/kildea.asp| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080928195034/http://www.awm.gov.au/journal/j39/kildea.asp| archive-date = 2008-09-28| title = Journal}} {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140408215144/http://www.awm.gov.au/journal/j39/kildea.asp |date=8 April 2014 }}</ref> Sheehy-Skeffington was later shot dead in [[Cathal Brugha Barracks|Portobello Barracks]].

Rathmines Church was used as a weapons store during the [[Irish War of Independence|War of Independence]]. On 26 January 1920, a fire started at the electrical switchboard in the vestry. There were reports of several members of 'A' Company of the IRA Dublin Brigade entering the church during the fire to retrieve the weapons. The fire caused £30-35,000 worth of damage and completely destroyed the dome.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://comeheretome.com/2013/08/05/the-rathmines-church-fire-1920/|title = The Rathmines Church Fire, 1920|date = 5 August 2013|access-date = 9 April 2014|archive-date = 13 April 2014|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140413123540/http://comeheretome.com/2013/08/05/the-rathmines-church-fire-1920/|url-status = live}}</ref>

During the [[Irish Civil War]] on 20 December 1922 [[Séamus Dwyer]], a pro-treaty Sinn Féin politician, was shot dead in his shop at 5 Rathmines Terrace. On 23 March 1923 Thomas O'Leary, a member of the [[anti-Treaty IRA]], was found dead and riddled with bullets outside of Tranquilla Convent (now Tranquilla Park). In 1933 a [[Celtic cross]] was erected in his memory at the location.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Curtis |first1=Maurice |title=The Little Book of Rathmines |date=2019 |publisher=History Press}}</ref>

On 28 January 1928, [[Irish Republican Army (1922–1969)|IRA]] [[assassin]] [[Timothy Coughlin]] was himself shot dead on the [[Dartry Road]].