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{{short description|Street in Dublin, Ireland}}
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| name                    = Sydney Parade Avenue
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| native_name             = {{native name list |tag1=ga|name1=Ascaill Pharáid Sydney
                            |postfix1=<ref name="irishtimes">{{Cite web|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/sydney-parade-irish-1.1092597|title=SYDNEY PARADE IRISH|newspaper=The Irish Times|date=20 August 2002 | accessdate=26 February 2022}} {{subscription required}}</ref>
                            |tag2=ga|name2=Ascaill Pharáid Shidní|postfix2=<ref name="irishtimes" />
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| image                   = Waiting traffic at the level crossing on Sydney Parade (geograph 1973223).jpg
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| caption                 = Traffic at the level crossing on Sydney Parade Avenue
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| namesake                =  [[Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea]]<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W51ODwAAQBAJ&q=%22Sidney+Herbert%22+%22sydney+parade%22&pg=PT143|title=The First Irish Railway: Westland Row to Kingstown|first=Kurt|last=Kullmann|date=28 May 2018|publisher=History Press|isbn=9780750988568|via=Google Books}}</ref>
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| length_m                = 700
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| location                = [[Sandymount]], [[Dublin]], [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]]
| postal_code             = [[Dublin 4|D04]]
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| coordinates             ={{coord|53|19|22|N|6|12|33|W|type:landmark_region:IE|display=it}}
| direction_a             = northeast
| terminus_a              = Strand Road 
| direction_b             = southwest
| terminus_b              = [[Merrion Road]]
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| known_for               = [[Sydney Parade railway station]]
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'''Sydney Parade Avenue''' ({{irish place name|Ascaill Pharáid Sydney|no_translate=yes}}) [[Sandymount]], [[Dublin 4]], [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]] runs from the land formerly known as [[Ailesbury Park]] opposite the [[Merrion Centre, Dublin|Merrion Centre]] at the [[Merrion Road]] end, to the sea of [[Dublin Bay]] at the Strand Road. [[Ailesbury Road]] joins Sydney Parade at the  [[Dublin Area Rapid Transit|DART]] station known as [[Sydney Parade railway station]], originally opened in January 1835.<ref>{{cite web | title=Sydney Parade | work=Railscot - Irish Railways | url=http://www.railscot.co.uk/Ireland/Irish_railways.pdf | accessdate=2007-09-03}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W51ODwAAQBAJ&q=%22Sydney+Parade%22+name&pg=PT144|title=The First Irish Railway: Westland Row to Kingstown|first=Kurt|last=Kullmann|date=28 May 2018|publisher=History Press|isbn=9780750988568|via=Google Books}}</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 (Dublin)|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]]

==References==
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