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Sinn Féin Bank at No. 6 Harcourt Street, Dublin following shelling.

Cardinal John Henry Newman lived at this address, and 6 Harcourt Street was one of three buildings housing the Irish Catholic University (founded by Newman on 3 November 1854) that went on to be University College Dublin.

As Free State Aire Airgid (Minister for Finance), Michael Collins was based in this building and there is still a surviving escape tunnel under no. 6.

Questions were asked of the Minister for Finance in the Dáil in May & December 1931 as to when depositors of the Sinn Féin People's Bank, then in liquidation, would be paid.

The Australian newspaper, The Marlborough Express, reported the following on 1 December 1920: "The authorities raided the Sinn Fein bank at Dublin. They tore up the floors and discovered a secret underground safe, which was not revealed on the occasion of the previous search. They blew open the safe, which contained £500 and important documents associated with the name of Michael Collins, chief of staff of the Irish Republic."

No. 6 Harcourt Street is now the head office of Conradh na Gaeilge.

NLI Ref.: Ke 208
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Camera location53° 20′ 13.33″ N, 6° 15′ 46.76″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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