Home Farm Road (also referred to as Homefarm Road) is a regional road situated in upper Drumcondra,

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. It is notable for being the place of origin of Home Farm F.C. It was previously named St. Mary's Road up to the tenth house. The road is named after the medieval home farm of the Priory of the Most Holy Trinity, which was located in

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It runs for approximately 872 m (about half a mile) from Drumcondra Road Upper to Mobhi Road and has seven side streets: Arran Road,

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Road, Clare Road, Valentia Road,

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Road all named after islands around Ireland. Ferguson and

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Roads were named after an Irish scholar and former Archbishop of Dublin respectively. In 1920 it was the residence of Professor Carolan and his family. On the night of 20 October 1920,

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and

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were staying here with the Carolan family as they evaded the 'G' men of the

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(DMP). Around 1.00 a.m. the house was raided by a large force of DMP and British Army members, complete with armoured cars. Professor Carolan let this raiding party in, was questioned and then shot dead in his own hallway. Breen and Treacy fired off their weapons, killing several soldiers. They then jumped out a side window of the house and fell through the conservatory roof, sustaining many cuts. They made their way into the Home Farm Fields. The Home Farm stretched from the back of the house over to Mobhi Road where they evaded capture by the DMP and Crown forces, Treacy going to an address at Inchicore Road and Breen to a

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. Breen was eventually brought to the Mater Hospital for treatment and the nuns there hid him from the authorities. Treacy left Inchicore one week later and made his way to

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, but was shot dead there by the British forces. The British overreacted at Drumcondra that night and the machine-gunner on the armoured car panicked and let off a few bursts of gunfire at the house, killing and injuring some of his own. A Dublin Fire Brigade man (Joe Connolly, who later became Chief) who responded on an ambulance to the incident, said that twelve bodies were removed that night to the Military Hospital.

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Amenities include the 2,000 seater Corpus Christi Catholic Church (opened in 1941), the associated Corpus Christi School GNS and several

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. There is one pharmacy on the road, called Homepharm, and also a convenience store and a hairdresser called 'New Image'. The road is served by the Numer 11

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route which terminates at

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. Its many famous past residents include the legendary uilleann piper and folklore collection,

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, who - in his later years - shared a flat there with the great Clare accordion player,

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. Ennis's stay on Home Farm Road is celebrated in a poem entitled 'Seamus Ennis in Drumcondra', by Dermot Bolger.

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Corpus Christi GNS HomepageCorpus Christi Parish Homepage
Streets in Dublin (city) Drumcondra, Dublin Home Farm F.C.

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