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".......... and her home at Oakley Road, Rathmines was much frequented by republicans. During the war of independence it was raided eleven times by troops and police, who fired shots and caused serious damage on at least three occasions."..
www.dib.ie/biography/ceannt-aine-a1580

18 February 1923 was a Sunday ...

Not at this address in the 1911 census

This Lafayette portrait of Áine and Rónan in 1917, NPA POLF10, gives the address as 44 Oakley Road.

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Date is absolutely accurate. This account of the attack appeared in the Freeman's Journal on Tuesday, 20 February 1923...

TWO HOUSES WRECKED
Ruthless Destruction By Rathmines Raiders

The residence of Mrs. Eamonn Ceannt, at 44 Oakley road, Rathmines, was visited on Sunday by about a dozen men, who smashed the windows, doors and furniture.
The house is directly opposite that of Mr. Alex. McCabe, which had been blown to pieces earlier in the night by a land mine.
Earlier in the night two men arrived and said they were going to burn the house. However, they went away without doing so.

The second raid occurred at 12.50 a.m., while Mrs. Ceannt, her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth O'Brennan, and a lodger, Miss Moore, were finishing a late supper. Answering a knock, Mrs. Ceannt found about 10 or 12 men outside the door. They peremptorily ordered her to clear, out at once. They also ordered her mother and Miss Moore to leave, and did not allow them time to take anything with them but the clothes they wore.

WORK OF DESTRUCTION
The ladies sought shelter in a neighbouring house, from which they could hear the sound of breaking glass and the crash of furniture, as the men went about the work of destruction. This went on for over an hour, when the party left in two motor cars in which they had driven to the house. Mrs. Ceannt returned to her house at 8 o'clock in the morning, and a terrible scene of wreckage and confusion met her gaze. Every window had been smashed out, doors were broken, and furniture of all descriptions was strewn about, broken to splinters.
A fine piano in the sittingroom, was hopelessly torn to pieces, tables, chairs, pictures and ornaments were all thrown about and destroyed.
Photographs of Mr. Eamonn Ceannt, who was executed after Easter Week, 1916, were destroyed. A number of shots had been discharged as there were bullet marks through some of the windows and also in pictures. A collection of toys belonging to Mrs. Ceannt's son, who is in College, was also taken out and smashed.

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Streetview shows that a large church has been built at left since this photo.

Actually, a large church was moved here in 1929, according to the DIA. The Church of Ireland Bruen Testimonial was bought and moved! Here it is on the 25", in its previous life as St. Anne's CI church.

From a page with the full story, this relevant detail: In 1893, the enclosed order of the Poor Clares came to Carlow, and moved into a house built on the Wellington Bridge spanning the River Barrow. In 1900, they moved to a purpose-built monastery on a site beside the land where Saint Anne’s would be relocated, and so Saint Clare’s seemed to be an appropriate name for the rebuilt church. So we are in or after 1900.

Whoever wrote that heading, must have gotten a lot of stars in English class.

quite a car collection, Ford Anglia ..... a mistake since pencil touched design board.

15 March 1964 was a Sunday . . . I wonder where else Mr O'Dea went that day.

Beware the Ides of March.

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Foxglove 3 Ford Anglias. 2 Volkswagen Beetles. 1 Austin Mini 1 Austin A30/35. 1 Ford Popular. 1 Fiat 600. 1 Vauxhall Victor Estate and a Hillman Minx Edit Delete 1 Anglia and replace with Ford Consul. Fiat 600 may be a NSU and Vauxhall could be an Opel(Very similar in shape and styling.