Oriel House, Westland Row is a building at the intersection of

Westland Row Westland Row is a street on the Southside of Dublin, Ireland. Location The street runs along the east end of Trinity College Dublin. History Westland Row first appears on maps in 1776. It was originally known as Westlands after Willi ...

and

Fenian Street Fenian Street is a street in Dublin, Ireland. Location Fenian Street runs from Lincoln Place at the western end, to Hogan Place at the eastern end, parallel with Pearse Street. History Fenian Street was formally called Denzille or Denzil Street ...

in Dublin. It is owned by

Trinity College Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ...

and serves as the headquarters for the Connect Centre for Future Networks and Communications (formerly CTVR), the Science Foundation Ireland research centre.

Overview

Oriel House was the address at which a US pneumatic tyre patent was drafted in 1893 'for the wheels of

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and other Vehicles'. The house served as headquarters for the

Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company Dunlop Ltd. (formerly Dunlop Rubber) was a British multinational company involved in the manufacture of various natural rubber goods. Its business was founded in 1889 by Harvey du Cros and he involved John Boyd Dunlop who had re-invented and ...

, for which it was known as the Dunlop Oriel House.History of our headquarters
on CVTR communications company of Ireland During the

Irish Civil War The Irish Civil War ( ga, Cogadh Cathartha na hÉireann; 28 June 1922 – 24 May 1923) was a conflict that followed the Irish War of Independence and accompanied the establishment of the Irish Free State, an entity independent from the United ...

, it became the base for the

Criminal Investigations Department The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is the branch of a police force to which most plainclothes detectives belong in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth nations. A force's CID is distinct from its Special Branch (though officers of b ...

(CID) of the Irish Free State - but separate from An Garda Síochána, the national police force. It was used by the Department of Lands in the late 1940s, and Gaeltarra Eireann had its head office there in the 1950s.

References

{{Dunlop Holdings Buildings and structures in Dublin (city)