Grosvenor Place Rathmines Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, suffragette and Irish nationalist, lived in 11 Grosvenor Place Rathmines Owen Sheehy-Skeffington, university lecturer and senator, spent early childhood in 11 Grosvenor Place Rathmines Dora Sigerson Shorter, poet, spent some of her childhood at Richmond Hill Annie M. P. Smithson, novelist, nurse and Nationalist, lived at 12 Richmond Hill until her death John Millington Synge, dramatist, lived here from February to April in 1908 George William Torrance, composer of church music Elizabeth Mary Troy (1914–2011), obstetrician Maev-Ann Wren, journalist, economist, and author, grew up in Rathmines Robert Wynne, 1760–1838, built Rathmines Castle c. 1820 Ella Young, poet and Celtic mythologist lived in Grosvenor Square. See also List of towns and villages in Ireland References Further reading Notes Towns and villages in Dublin (city) Uppercross