Family tree - Humphrys - 36 Ailesbury Rd, Dublin |
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36 Ailesbury Rd, on one of the very best roads of Dublin,
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Raid by the British in 1920:
Two Volunteers, one called Moore, arrived 6pm, nowhere to stay.
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The family was on the Republican side in Civil War,
secret room still used to shelter fugitives.
Batt O'Connor went over to the Free State, but didn't tell
[Mac Eoin, 1980].
However the Free State side found out anyway.
It was
raided by the Free State in
the Civil War, Nov 1922,
when there was a shootout,
Anno seriously injured,
whole family arrested.
After the Civil War, the die-hard republican Sighle
remained an opponent of the Free State.
Ailesbury Rd raided,
Sighle arrested 10th May 1928
on charges of influencing juries.
Ailesbury Rd raided,
Sighle arrested 16th Dec 1931
for membership of (the now illegal) Cumann na mBan.
Nell died there 1939.
Anno O'Rahilly
died there 1958.
Emmet Humphreys
then lived there,
living there as at c.1963,
listed there in
[Thom's, 1965]
to
[Thom's, 1969].
Emmet sold it 1968 to French Embassy.
French Embassy had acquired the spectacular
53 Ailesbury Road as their embassy in 1930.
[Thom's, 1971]
shows new French Embassy offices at 36 Ailesbury Road.
[French Embassy history]
says
when the floors were lifted to install central heating,
a hiding place was found under the floor
which contained a bayonet.
Humphrey Langan
met a lady who worked at the Embassy. She said that
when they were having the wiring done, they took up floorboards,
found guns and revolvers underneath.
36 Ailesbury Rd is now the
Chancery and Consular Service
of the French Embassy (i.e. the working embassy).
Across the road is the official Embassy,
53 Ailesbury Road,
where the French Ambassador lives.
The secret room, between the bathroom and
hot press,
"in what is now the washroom",
is preserved by the French Embassy.
In Jan 2008,
France put up for sale both of its properties
- 36 Ailesbury Rd
(offered at €20 m)
and 53 Ailesbury Rd
(offered at €60 m,
the most expensive house ever put on sale in Ireland).
See Irish Times,
17 Jan 2008
(and property).
See
36 Ailesbury Rd
and
53 Ailesbury Rd
sales sites.
36 Ailesbury Rd
is described as 9 bedroom, 3,700 square feet,
standing on 1 Acre in Dublin 4.
As at June 2008 they are
still unsold.

36 Ailesbury Rd after the raid in 1922.
The S front.
From here.

36 Ailesbury Rd.
The S front.
From French Embassy.

36 Ailesbury Rd.
Shot from SW.
From The Struggle, 2003.
From Manchán Magan.

The site. S to top. N to bottom.

The site. Ailesbury Rd and S front of house to LHS.

Ground floor. Ailesbury Rd and S front of house to bottom.

First floor. Ailesbury Rd and S front of house to bottom.

Photo from SE.
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and full size.

The SW side.

The rear (N side)

The garden.
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