Editing Rathmines

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'''Rathmines''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|ɹ|æ|θ|ˌ|m|aɪ|n|z}}; {{Irish place name|Ráth Maonais|[[ringfort]] of Maonas}}) is an inner suburb<ref name="NAI_Suburbs">{{cite web |title=The Suburbs |url=http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/exhibition/dublin/suburbs.html |website=Census of Ireland at the National Archives |publisher=National Archives of Ireland |access-date=12 October 2021}}</ref> on the [[Southside (Dublin)|Southside of Dublin]] in Ireland. It begins at the southern side of the [[Grand Canal of Ireland|Grand Canal]] and stretches along the Rathmines Road as far as [[Rathgar]] to the south, [[Ranelagh]] to the east, and [[Harold's Cross]] to the west. It is situated in the city's [[List of Dublin postal districts|D06]] postal district.

Rathmines is a commercial and social hub and was well known across Ireland as "Flatland"—an area where subdivided large Georgian and Victorian houses provided rented accommodation to newly arrived junior civil servants and third-level students from outside the city from the 1930s.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Freeman|first=Michael|title=Your guide to Rathmines: Leafy southside meets the real city (with a grand slam on groceries)|url=https://www.thejournal.ie/rathmines-neighbourhood-guide-3587962-Sep2017/|access-date=2022-01-29|website=TheJournal.ie|date=11 September 2017 |language=en}}</ref> However, in more recent times, Rathmines has diversified its housing stock and many historic houses formerly divided into often tiny flats and [[bedsit]]s have in a process of gentrifying been re-amalgamated into single-family homes.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Harrison|first=Bernice|title=Flat land to family home: transforming a Rathmines redbrick for €1.05m|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/homes-and-property/new-to-market/flat-land-to-family-home-transforming-a-rathmines-redbrick-for-1-05m-1.4567421|access-date=2022-01-29|newspaper=The Irish Times|language=en}}</ref> Rathmines gained a reputation as a "Dublin [[Belgravia]]" in the 19th Century.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Maitiú|first=Séamas Ó|title=How Rathmines became the 'Dublin Belgravia'|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/how-rathmines-became-the-dublin-belgravia-1.4748165|access-date=2022-01-29|newspaper=The Irish Times|language=en}}</ref>

==Name==
Rathmines is an [[Anglicisation]] of the [[Irish language|Irish]] {{lang|ga|Ráth Maonais}}, meaning "ringfort of Maonas"/"fort of Maonas". The name Maonas is perhaps derived from Maoghnes or the [[Normans|Norman]] name de Meones, after the [[de Meones family]] who settled in Dublin about 1280; Elrington Ball states that the earlier version of the name was ''Meonesrath'', which supports the theory that it was named after the family.<ref>{{cite book|last=Ball|first=F. Elrington|title=History of Dublin Vol. 2 |date=1903 |publisher=Alexander Thom and Co. |page=100}}</ref> Like many of the surrounding areas, it arose from a fortified structure which would have been the centre of civic and commercial activity from the [[Norman invasion of Ireland]] in the 12th century. [[Rathgar]], [[Baggotrath Castle|Baggotrath]] and [[Rathfarnham]] are other areas of Dublin whose placenames derive from a similar root.

==History==

===Origins===
[[File:Junction, Rathmines (8102282250).jpg|265px|thumb|Rathmines c. 1911]]
Rathmines has a history stretching back to the 14th century. At this time, Rathmines and the surrounding hinterland were part of the ecclesiastical lands called ''Cuallu'' or ''Cuallan'', later the vast Parish of Cullenswood, which gave its name to a nearby area. Cuallu is mentioned in local surveys from 1326 as part of the [[manor of St. Sepulchre]] (the estate, or rather liberty, of the [[Archbishop of Dublin (Roman Catholic)|Archbishop of Dublin]], whose seat as a Canon of [[St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin|St. Patrick's Cathedral]] takes its name from this). There is some evidence of an established settlement around a ''rath'' as far back as 1350. Rathmines is part of the Barony of Uppercross, one of the many baronies surrounding the old city of Dublin, bound as it was by walls, some of which are still visible. In more recent times, Rathmines was a popular suburb of Dublin, attracting the wealthy and powerful seeking refuge from the poor living conditions of the city from the middle of the 19th century. A substantial mansion, generally called Rathmines Old Castle, was built in the seventeenth century, probably at present-day [[Palmerston Park]], and rebuilt in the eighteenth; no trace of it survives today.

Rathmines is arguably best known historically for a bloody battle that took place there in 1649, during the [[Cromwellian conquest of Ireland]], leading to the death of perhaps up to 5,000 people. The [[Battle of Rathmines]] took place on 2 August 1649 and led to the routing of Royalist forces in Ireland shortly after this time. Some have compared the Battle of Rathmines – or sometimes Baggotrath – as equal in political importance to England's [[Battle of Naseby]]. The battle brought a swift end to the ongoing Royalist [[Siege of Dublin (1649)|Siege of Dublin]].

In the early 1790s, the [[Grand Canal (Ireland)|Grand Canal]] was constructed on the northern edge of Rathmines, connecting Rathmines with [[Portobello, Dublin|Portobello]] via the La Touch Bridge (which through popular usage became better known as Portobello Bridge).

For several hundred years Rathmines was the location of a "spa" – in fact, a spring – the water of which was said to have health-giving properties. It attracted people with all manner of ailments to the area. In the 19th century, it was called the "Grattan Spa", as it was located on property once belonging to [[Henry Grattan]], close to Portobello Bridge.<ref name = "spa">{{cite book|last= Handcock|first= William Domville|year= 1899|title= The History and Antiquities of Tallaght In The County of Dublin|publisher= 2nd Edition|location= Dublin|url= http://www.chaptersofdublin.com/books/Handcock/tallaght14.htm|access-date= 3 July 2009|archive-date= 2 December 2008|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081202094132/http://www.chaptersofdublin.com/books/Handcock/tallaght14.htm|url-status= usurped}}</ref> The "spa" gradually fell into a state of neglect as the century progressed, until disputes arose between those who wished to preserve it and those (mainly developers) who wished to get rid of it altogether. In 1872 a Dr. O'Leary, who held a high estimate of the water quality, reported that the "spa" was in "a most disgraceful state of repair", upon which the developer and alderman Frederick Stokes sent samples to the medical inspector, Dr. Cameron, for analysis. Dr. Cameron, a great lover of authority, reported: "It was, in all probability, merely the drainings of some ancient disused sewer, not a [[chalybeate]] spring." Access to the site was blocked up and the once popular "spa" faded from public memory.<ref>Irish Times, Letters to the Editor, July 1872</ref>

[[Dublin Rathmines (UK Parliament constituency)|Dublin Rathmines]] was a parliamentary county constituency at Westminster from 1918 to 1922. It returned [[Irish Unionist Alliance|Unionist]] candidate [[Maurice Dockrell (Unionist politician)|Maurice Dockrell]] as its MP in 1918, elected on a majority. Dockrell was the only Unionist elected in a geographical constituency outside Ulster.
[[File:Rathmines Road.jpg|thumb|[[Rathmines Town Hall]] in Rathmines Road]]

===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]].

===Rathmines Township===
[[File:Grosvenor Square, Dublin D06.jpg|thumb|Grosvenor Square, Rathmines]]
The Rathmines Township was created by an Act of Parliament in 1847. The area was later renamed [[Rathmines and Rathgar]] and expanded to take in the areas of Rathgar, Ranelagh, [[Sallymount]] and [[Milltown, Dublin|Milltown]]. The township was initially responsible only for sanitation, but its powers were extended over time to cover most functions of [[local government]]. It became an [[urban and rural districts (Ireland)|urban district]] under the [[Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898]], but was still usually called a "township". Initially, the council was made up of local businessmen and other eminent figures; the franchise was extended in 1899 and the membership changed accordingly.

[[Rathmines Town Hall]] is still one of Rathmines's most prominent buildings with its clock tower (because the clock is famously inaccurate and has four large apparently unsynchronised clock faces (i.e., they sometimes show different times), it is known locally as the "Four Faced Liar".)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dublininquirer.com/2016/05/04/a-struggle-to-keep-time |title=A Struggle to Keep Time |publisher=Dublin Inquirer |date=May 2016}}</ref>

The township was incorporated into the [[Dublin|City of Dublin]] in 1930, and its functions were taken over by [[Dublin Corporation]], now known as [[Dublin City Council]].<ref>{{Cite Irish legislation|name=[[Local Government (Dublin) Act 1930]]|section=2|stitle=Inclusion of certain urban districts in the city|year=1930|number=27|parl=ifs|date=17 July 1930}}</ref> Kimmage–Rathmines is a [[local electoral area]] of Dublin City Council, electing six councillors; the boundaries of the electoral areas in Rathmines have varied over the years.<ref>{{cite Irish legislation|name=City of Dublin Local Electoral Areas Order 2018|year=2018|type=si|number=614|date=19 December 2018}}</ref>

==Places of interest==
[[Cathal Brugha Barracks]] (known in the past as Portobello Barracks) is a large army barracks which is home to many units of the [[Irish Army]] including, the 2 Brigade and the 7th Infantry Battalion.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.military.ie/en/public-information/defence-forces-museums/cathal-brugha-visitor-centre |date=September 2022 |title=Cathal Brugha Visitor Centre, Military.ie}}</ref> [[Portobello GAA]] are based on their pitch on Leinster Road and fields adult teams in Gaelic football and hurling which serve Rathmines for GAA.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-06-08 |title=Commencement Matter: Securing the use of Cathal Brugha Barracks for young people in Dublin 6 and Dublin 6W |url=https://www.ivanabacik.com/latest/commencement-matter-securing-the-use-of-cathal-brugha-barrac/ |access-date=2024-09-24 |website=Ivana Bacik |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Location – Portobello GAA Club |url=https://portobellogaa.com/location/ |access-date=2024-09-24 |language=en-US}}</ref>

Rathmines Library was opened on 24 October 1913 following a grant of £8,500<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dublincitypubliclibraries.com/story/rathmines-library-100-years-heart-community |title=Rathmines Library - 100 Years at the Heart of the Community &#124; a whole new world |access-date=2014-04-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131103223245/http://www.dublincitypubliclibraries.com/story/rathmines-library-100-years-heart-community |archive-date=3 November 2013 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> from [[Andrew Carnegie]], to a design by architect, Frederick Hicks.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://dia.ie/works/view/36650/building/CO.+DUBLIN%2C+DUBLIN%2C+RATHMINES+ROAD+LOWER%2C+NO.+167+%28CARNEGIE+FREE+LIBRARY+%26+TECHNICAL+INSTITUTE%29|title=Dictionary of Irish Architects -|access-date=23 April 2014|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304095031/http://dia.ie/works/view/36650/building/CO.+DUBLIN%2C+DUBLIN%2C+RATHMINES+ROAD+LOWER%2C+NO.+167+%28CARNEGIE+FREE+LIBRARY+%26+TECHNICAL+INSTITUTE%29|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Churches==
[[File:The neoclassical Church of Mary Immaculate with Georgian townhouses.jpg|thumb|The [[Neoclassical architecture|neoclassical]] [[Mary Immaculate, Refuge of Sinners Church|Mary Immaculate church]] with [[Georgian Dublin|Georgian townhouses]] nearby]]
The green copper oxide dome of [[Mary Immaculate, Refuge of Sinners Church]] is a prominent landmark. The original dome was destroyed in a fire in 1920 and replaced by the current one when reopened in 1922. The dome was to be used in St Petersburg but the political and social upheaval in that city caused it to be diverted to Dublin.<ref>[http://www.irish-architecture.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/rathmines/rathmines_church.html Rathmines Church] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927201910/http://www.irish-architecture.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/rathmines/rathmines_church.html |date=27 September 2007 }}</ref>

The Holy Trinity Church (Church of Ireland) was designed by [[John Semple (architect)|John Semple]] (1801–1882) in the [[Gothic Revival]] style and consecrated on 1 June 1828. Constructed of Black Calp, a local limestone that turns black in the rain, the Church was one of two in Dublin to be known as the 'Black Church,' (the other also being designed by Semple and in St. Mary's Place).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dia.ie/works/view/33808/building/CO.+DUBLIN%2C+DUBLIN%2C+CHURCH+AVENUE+%28RATHMINES%29%2C+CHURCH+OF+HOLY+TRINITY+%28CI%29|title=CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHURCH AVENUE (RATHMINES), CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY (CI) Dictionary of Irish Architects -|access-date=9 April 2014|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304101700/http://www.dia.ie/works/view/33808/building/CO.+DUBLIN,+DUBLIN,+CHURCH+AVENUE+(RATHMINES),+CHURCH+OF+HOLY+TRINITY+(CI)|url-status=live}}</ref>

Rathmines is also the location of Grosvenor Road Baptist Church.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.grosvenorbaptist.org/ |title=Grosvenor Road Baptist Church. |access-date=26 February 2020 |archive-date=24 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190524014823/http://www.grosvenorbaptist.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Education==
There are primary and secondary schools, [[St Mary's College, Dublin|St Mary's College]] (C.S.Sp.) and St Louis Primary and [[St Louis High School, Rathmines|St Louis Secondary School, Rathmines]].  On Upper Rathmines Road there is a Church of Ireland sponsored primary school called [[Kildare Place National School]], situated on the grounds of the former [[Church of Ireland College of Education]]. [[Rathmines College of Further Education]] is located in the Town Hall.

==Retail==
On 14 September 2014, the old Swan cinema was upgraded, refurbished, and enhanced, at a cost of nearly €8 million. From the original seating capacity of 258, it was expanded to 1,519, over a total of eight movie screens.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/59011 |title=Omniplex Rathmines in Dublin, IE |publisher=Cinema Treasures}}</ref> This has multiple screens, it shows up-to-date movies and features [[3D movies]]. In October 2017, the [[Stella Cinema]], a vintage cinema popular in the 1980s was refurbished and reopened, offering  classic films and blockbusters.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/a-sneak-preview-inside-the-refurbished-stella-cinema-in-rathmines-1.3263333|title=A sneak preview inside the refurbished Stella cinema in Rathmines|newspaper=The Irish Times|access-date=2018-02-11|language=en-US|archive-date=23 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171023165821/https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/a-sneak-preview-inside-the-refurbished-stella-cinema-in-rathmines-1.3263333|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Transport==
From the 1850s, horse-drawn [[Bus|omnibuses]] provided transport from Rathmines to the city centre. Portobello Bridge, which had a steep incline, was often a problem for the horses, which led to the [[Portobello, Dublin#Of historical interest|fatal accident of 1861]].<ref name = "vic">{{cite book|last= Daly|first= Mary|year= 1998|title= Dublin's Victorian Houses|publisher= A and A Farmar|location= Dublin|isbn= 1-899047-42-5|page= [https://archive.org/details/dublinsvictorian00daly/page/19 19]|url-access= registration|url= https://archive.org/details/dublinsvictorian00daly/page/19}}</ref>

On 6 October 1871 work was commenced on the [[Dublin tramways|Dublin tram system]] on Rathmines Road, just before Portobello Bridge, and a horse-drawn tram service was in place the following year. The following year also the long-awaited (since the 1861 accident) improvements to Portobello Bridge were carried out, the Tramway Company paying one-third of the total cost of £300.

Rathmines was once served by [[Beechwood Luas stop|Rathmines and Ranelagh railway station]] on the [[Harcourt Street railway line]]. The station opened on 16 July 1896 and finally closed on 1 January 1959.<ref>{{cite web | title=Rathmines and Ranelagh station | work=Railscot - Irish Railways | url=http://www.railscot.co.uk/Ireland/Irish_railways.pdf | access-date=2007-11-23 | archive-date=26 September 2007 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926042407/http://www.railscot.co.uk/Ireland/Irish_railways.pdf | url-status=live }}</ref>

Today Rathmines is served by the [[Luas]] light rail system: [[Ranelagh Luas stop|Ranelagh]] on the [[Green Line (Luas)|Green Line]] is the most convenient for access to the main street, while the [[Charlemont Luas stop|Charlemont]], [[Beechwood Luas stop|Beechwood]] (which is near the former railway station) and [[Cowper Luas stop|Cowper]] stops are also within walking distance of the area.

[[Dublin Bus]] routes S2, 14, 15, 15A, 15B, 65, 65B, 83, 140 and 142 serve Rathmines. The area is also served by the Dublin Bus ''Nitelink'' routes 15N and 49N on Friday and Saturday nights and on public holidays.

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Townhouses on Leinster Road, Rathmines.jpg|Townhouses on Leinster Road, Rathmines
File:Rathmines 2.jpg|Georgian doorways in Rathmines
File:Leinster Road, Rathmines.jpg|Houses on Leinster Road, Rathmines
File:Chapel and residential buildings, The Mageough.png|The [[Mageough Home]]
</gallery>

== Notable people ==

* [[Cathal Brugha]], Irish nationalist, lived on Rathmines Road{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}
* [[Mamie Cadden]], midwife, backstreet abortionist and convicted murderer, operated a maternity nursing home, St Maelruin's, at 183 Lower Rathmines Road<ref>{{cite book|last= Kavanagh|first= Ray |year= 2005|title= Mamie Cadden: Backstreet Abortionist|publisher= Mercier Press|isbn= 185635-459-8|page= 29}}</ref>
* [[Martin Cahill]] (1949-1994) aka ''The General'', career criminal, lived in Cowper Downs prior to his murder in 1994{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}
* [[Michael Cleary (priest)]] was living on Leinster Road, Rathmines when the controversy{{which|date=October 2021}} about his child was first reported{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}
* [[Nora Connolly O'Brien]], second daughter of [[James Connolly]], was an activist and writer; she was also a member of the Irish Senate, and lived on [[Belgrave Square, Dublin|Belgrave Square]]{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}
* [[Matt Cooper (Irish journalist)]], resident<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.irishmirror.ie/showbiz/irish-showbiz/today-fms-matt-cooper-marriage-6310921 | title=Today FM's Matt Cooper on his marriage: 'Aileen has had to sacrifice a lot' | date=24 August 2015 }}</ref>
* [[Frederick William Cumberland]] (1820–1881), architect, railway manager and politician, grew up in Rathmines; his father Thomas was employed at Dublin Castle<ref name = "cumber">{{cite book|last= Simmins|first= Geoffrey |year= 1997|title= Fred Cumberland: Building the Victorian Dream|publisher= University of Toronto Press|isbn= 978-0-8020-0679-0|page= 3}}</ref>
* [[Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope]], British admiral of the Second World War{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}
* [[Vincent Dowling]], Director of the Arts, was born in Rathmines{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}
* [[Séamus Dwyer]], Sinn Féin TD in the [[2nd Dáil]], Pro-Treaty candidate in [[1922 Irish general election|1922 General Election]], shot dead in his shop at 5 Rathmines Terrace on 20 December 1922{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}
* [[Madeleine ffrench-Mullen]] (30 December 1880 – 26 May 1944) was an Irish revolutionary and labour activist who took part in the Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}
* [[Paddy Finucane]], Second World War fighter pilot, was born in Rathmines<ref>https://independent.ie/irish-news/spitfire-paddy-the-battle-of-britains-youngest-air-ace/26878317.html</ref>
* [[Grace Gifford]], an 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{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}
* [[Stephen Gwynn]] Protestant Nationalist MP, writer, poet and journalist lived at Palmerstown Road{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}
* [[Lafcadio Hearn]], ghost-story writer who settled in Japan, was brought up in Rathmines{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}
* [[Seán Hogan|Sean Hogan]] married Christina Butler at Our lady Refuge of Sinners Church in Rathmines, 24 February 1925<ref>Superintendent's Register District of Dublin, folio 05303753 Dublin district regist</ref>
* [[Rosamund Jacob]], suffragist, republican and writer lived at [[Belgrave Square, Dublin|Belgrave Square]] and Charleville Road{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}
* [[James Joyce]] was born at 41 Brighton Square and spent some of his childhood at 23 Castlewood Avenue{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}
* Thomas Goodwin Keohler (1873-1942), poet, journalist and friend of [[James Joyce]] lived at 12 Charleville Road<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jjon.org/jioyce-s-people/thomas-keohler|title=JJON - Thomas Goodwin Keohler|access-date=12 June 2015|archive-date=11 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150711173704/http://www.jjon.org/jioyce-s-people/thomas-keohler|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Aine Lawlor]], RTÉ journalist{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}
*The [[Earl of Longford]] had a large house in the Grosvenor park area of the Leinster road between Rathmines and [[Harold's Cross]], that was demolished and replaced with a modern housing estate in recent decades{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}
* [[Kathleen Lynn]], 1874–1955, [[Sinn Féin]] politician, activist and medical doctor lived and practised on Belgrave Road, Rathmines<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rcpi.ie/content/docs/000001/109_5_media.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2014-04-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413124639/https://www.rcpi.ie/content/docs/000001/109_5_media.pdf |archive-date=13 April 2014 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
* [[Éamonn MacThomáis]], 1927–2002, born in Rathmines, was an author, broadcaster, historian, Republican, advocate of the Irish language and lecturer, noted for numerous [[RTÉ]] documentaries on his native Dublin{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}
* [[Constance Markievicz]], Irish revolutionary. In 1903 after a visit to Ukraine, she and her husband [[Casimir Markievicz]] returned to live in a house provided by Constance's mother in Rathmines to bring up her daughter Maeve and stepson Stanislaus{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}
* [[John Mitchel]] was living with his family at 8 Ontario Terrace when he was arrested in 1848{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}
* [[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{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}
* [[Brian O'Driscoll]], Irish rugby player, lives in Rathmines {{citation needed|date=October 2021}}
* [[Walter Osborne]], a famous Irish impressionist painter, was born at 5 Castlewood Avenue{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}
* [[Seumas O'Sullivan]], writer, was born on Charleston Avenue and the family pharmacy operated from 30 Rathmines Road{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}
* [[Edward Pakenham, 6th Earl of Longford]] Irish Nationalist, Senator and writer{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}
* [[Arthur Alcock Rambaut]], astronomer, was educated at Rathmines School{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}
* [[George William Russell]], [[Irish nationalist]] and  mystic,  was educated at Rathmines School{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}
* [[Johnny Sexton]], Irish rugby player, lives in Rathmines {{citation needed|date=October 2021}}
* [[Francis Sheehy-Skeffington]], suffragist, pacifist and writer, lived in 11 Grosvenor Place Rathmines{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}
* [[Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington]], suffragette and Irish nationalist, lived in 11 Grosvenor Place Rathmines{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}
* [[Owen Sheehy-Skeffington]], university lecturer and senator, spent early childhood in 11 Grosvenor Place Rathmines{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}
* [[Dora Sigerson Shorter]], poet, spent some of her childhood at Richmond Hill{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}
* [[Annie M. P. Smithson]], novelist, nurse and Nationalist, lived at 12 Richmond Hill until her death{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}
* [[John Millington Synge]],  dramatist, lived here from February to April in 1908<ref>Robin Skelton J.M.Singe and his world.1971 p. 121</ref>
* [[George William Torrance]], composer of church music
* [[Elizabeth Mary Troy]] (1914–2011), obstetrician
* [[Maev-Ann Wren]], journalist, economist, and author, grew up in Rathmines
* Robert Wynne, 1760–1838, built Rathmines Castle c. 1820<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.wynnesofireland.info/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I416&tree=Tree02| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140413141920/http://www.wynnesofireland.info/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I416&tree=Tree02| archive-date = 2014-04-13| title = Robert Wynne b. 1760 d. 31 May 1838 Rathmines Castle, Co. Dublin: Wynnes of Ireland}} </ref>
* [[Ella Young]], poet and Celtic mythologist lived in Grosvenor Square

== See also ==
* [[List of towns and villages in the Republic of Ireland|List of towns and villages in Ireland]]

==References==
{{Commons category|Rathmines}}

===Further reading===
* {{cite book|last=Maitiú|first=Séamas Ó|title=Dublin's Suburban Towns 1834–1930 |year=2003|publisher=Four Courts Press|isbn=9781851827237}}

===Notes===
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