Oriel House, Westland Row
| Oriel House | |
|---|---|
 South façade, Oriel House, Westland Row | |
| Former names | Dunlop House |
| General information | |
| Type | Offices |
| Location | Westland Row/Fenian St., Dublin |
| Owner | Trinity College, Dublin |
Oriel House, Westland Row is a building at the intersection of Westland Row and Fenian Street in Dublin. It was the headquarters of Dunlop Rubber, and the address at which a US pneumatic tyre patent was draughted in 1893 'for the wheels of Velocipedes and other Vehicles'.[1] During the Irish Civil War, it became the base for the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Irish Free State's nascent police force.[2] It was used by the Department of Lands in the late 1940s,[3] and Gaeltarra Eireann had its head office there in the 1950s.[4] Currently it is owned by Trinity College, Dublin and serves as the headquarters for both CTVR, The Telecommunications Research Centre, and CONNECT, the SFI Research Centre for Future Networks & Communications.[5]
References
- ↑ "Patent Number 4600045 Pneumatic vehicle tire". Google Patents. p. 2. Retrieved 2009-08-16. horizontal tab character in
|title=at position 14 (help) - ↑ O'Halpin, Eunan (2000). Defending Ireland: the Irish state and its enemies since 1922. Oxford University Press. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-19-924269-6. Retrieved 2009-08-16.
- ↑ "Oral Answers. - Housing of State and semi-State Organisations". Dáil Éireann. 27 April 1949. Retrieved 2009-08-16.
- ↑ O'Riordan, Michael (1979). Connolly Column: the story of the Irishmen who fought in the ranks of the International Brigades in the national-revolutionary war of the Spanish people, 1936-1939. New Books Publications. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-905140-75-9. Retrieved 2009-09-22.
- ↑ "CTVR website".
Coordinates: 53°20′31″N 6°15′01″W / 53.342046°N 6.250269°W
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