Sheridan Le Fanu was born at No.
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Within a year of his birth his family moved to the Royal Hibernian Military School in Phoenix Park, where his father, an Anglican clergyman, was the chaplain of the establishment.
His niece Rhoda Broughton would become a very successful novelist.
Both his grandmother Alicia Sheridan Le Fanu and his great-uncle Richard Brinsley Sheridan were playwrights. 45 Lower Dominick Steet, Dublin, into a literary family of Huguenot origins.
Sheridan Le Fanu was born at No