lord mayor of Dublin, Robert and later a prominent Dublin political family lived on Emorville Avenue, the family first moved to the area as Russian immigrants. David Davin-Power grew up on the South Circular Road, corner of Victoria Street, where his father was a doctor. Denis O'Dea the actor came from 54 Richmond St., where his mother kept a boarding house. He married actress Siobhán McKenna in 1956 and they lived in the house until the late sixties. They had a son Donnacha O'Dea, who was a pupil of Synge Street CBS. Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh (1911–1978), fifth President of Ireland, lived much of his life in No 15 Portobello Road. Frank Edwards (1907–1983), a prominent Irish Communist worked the latter part of his life as a teacher in the Jewish, Zion School on Bloomfield Avenue, he was a teacher by profession, after 1940 he was blacklisted from teaching in all the Catholic run State Schools by the Archbishop John Charles McQuaid, for his involvement with Connolly Column. Barry Fitzgerald (1888–1961), the Abbey actor who was awarded an Oscar, and his brother Arthur Shields, Abbey actor, 1916 Volunteer and Hollywood actor, were born in Walworth Road. Dennis Franks (1902–1967), a homosexual actor of Polish-Jewish extraction, renowned for duelling with Ulick O'Connor on RTÉ's Late Late Show in the 1960s, lived at the beginning of South Circular Road, Portobello until his death on 14 October 1967. Chaim Herzog (1918–1997), sixth President of Israel, grew up in 33 Bloomfield Avenue. His father, Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, a renowned Talmudic scholar, was the first Chief Rabbi of Ireland, and later of Palestine and Israel. Yaakov Herzog son of Yitzhak was also born and lived with the family in Dublin. Immanuel Jakobovits (1921–1999), while serving as Chief Rabbi of Ireland (1948–1958), lived in Bloomfield Avenue. Louis Jammet, owner of the French Jammet Restaurant, died in a Portobello nursing home. There was a diplomatic incident with the French embassy when one of his restaurants on Nassau street had several windows broken by a group of Radical Irish Nationalists on the outbreak of Victory in Europe Day. Harry Kernoff (1900–1974) was an Irish painter who lived and had a studio under the roof of 1 Stamer Street. He was of London/Russian Jewish extraction, and is primarily remembered for his sympathetic interest in Dublin and its people. Some of his work includes the local scenery such as La Touche