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Dublin Houses associated with Michael Collins.

Fernside House, Drumcondra

  On the 12th of October 1920, Sean Treacy and Dan Breen (Volunteers from Tipperary) were hiding at Fernside, 37 Upper Drumcondra Road, a safe house owned by Professor John Carolan who lectured in the nearby St Patricks teacher-training college. The house was small two-storeyed and had at that time a long back garden. It was raided by a unit of nine mixed British troops and intelligence men under Lt. Philip Attwood. In the ensuing shootout, two British officers were killed (Major Smyth and Captain White), as was the owner of the house, Dr. Carolan. Treacy and Breen escaped through a window and shot their out. The badly injured Breen was smuggled into Dublin's Mater hospital (The story that Collins had a plug of Tobacco and a Baby Power (Whiskey) smuggled into Breen relates to this incident). Treacy had been wounded but not seriously.