Sydney Parade Avenue

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Irish English Template:Infobox street Sydney Parade Avenue (Template:Irish place name) Sandymount, Dublin 4, Ireland runs from the land formerly known as Ailesbury Park opposite the Merrion Centre at the Merrion Road end, to the sea of Dublin Bay at the Strand Road. Ailesbury Road joins Sydney Parade at the DART station known as Sydney Parade railway station, originally opened in January 1835.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Other side roads off the avenue include

• Richelieu Park, a cul-de-sac
• Ailesbury Park,
• Ailesbury Gardens, which joins with
• St. Alban's Park, and
• Park Avenue, the road to Sandymount village.

The Ailesbury Park end of the avenue has been closed to road traffic since the 1980s.

Literary connection

In "A Painful Case" by James Joyce, Mr. and Mrs. Sinico lived in a house called Leoville on Sydney Parade Avenue.

See also

• List of streets and squares in Dublin