his early childhood, stands at the corner of Park Lane facing Main Street in front of the church. The renovated old RIC barracks on Main Street predates the old Constabulary, serving as an army barracks from the reign of William and Mary. Chapelizod Community Festival is held annually between the first and second Sundays in July. First held in 1994, the festival is run by volunteers and funded mainly by local business sponsors. In literature The village is the setting of Le Fanu's novel The House by the Churchyard and short story Ghost Stories of Chapelizod. In James Joyce's short story "A Painful Case", published in Dubliners, it is the home of the unsociable protagonist James Duffy, who "lived in Chapelizod because he wished to live as far as possible from the city of which he was a citizen and because he found all the other suburbs of Dublin mean, modern and pretentious." It is the setting—as well as the scene of the home and hostelry of the protagonist Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker, his wife Anna Livia Plurabelle, and their family Shaun, Shem and Issy—in Joyce's final major work, Finnegans Wake. Sport Chapelizod is home to Chapelizod Cricket Club (CCC). CCC have previously won the Kumasi Cup. The Chapelizod Sports Stadium hosted greyhound racing from 1949 to 1961 and hosted speedway from 1950 to 1961. Chapelizod is also home to Chapelizod F.C., an association football club which won the United Churches 3B league in 2012. The club also won the Sydney Bellow cup and the league shield in 2013. Notable residents King William III Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe Joseph Sheridan le Fanu Arthur Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun Frank Harte Karl Shiels See also List of towns and villages in Ireland References Towns and villages in Dublin (city) Civil parishes of the barony of Castleknock