About 1280 a family from East Meon, who took the name de Meones, moved to Dublin, where they became substantial landowners and gave their name to the suburb of Rathmines.
Grace was the second youngest in a family of 12 children and grew up in the fashionable suburb of Rathmines in Dublin.
Joshua Kearney Millner (born July 5, 1847, Dublin, Ireland – died November 16, 1931, Rathmines, Dublin, Ireland), also referred to as Jerry Millner, was a British shooter who represented Great Britain and Ireland at the
Hearn relocated to Dublin, Ireland, at the age of two years, where he was brought up in the suburb of Rathmines.
The artist Sir William Dobell was at one time responsible for the camouflage of the base.
This was a sort of homecoming for the Eggleston as his wife Frances was from Rathmines.
In 1963, during his first year at UCD, he was approached by the Rathmines and Rathgar Musical Society and played Jack Point in The Gaiety's production of The Yeomen of the Guard.
The philanthropist Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) funded the building of four Carnegie Libraries in the Dublin City Public Libraries branch network, Dublin City Library and Archive, Pearse Street; Rathmines Library (terracotta by the famous Gibbs and Canning of Tamworth, Staffordshire); Pembroke Library and Charleville Mall Library.
She taught at the College of Commerce, Rathmines (now part of the DIT) between 1979 and 1988, where she established and was head of the first Irish course in Media Communications, teaching Bryan Dobson (news anchor), Fergus Tighe (film director), Anne Cassin (newsreader), and Ned O'Hanlon (U2 and Rolling Stones video director) amongst others.
43 Squadron, augmented by Catalinas from No. 11 Squadron based at Rathmines, New South Wales, mined Manila Bay to keep Japanese shipping "bottled up", thus supporting the Allied landing at Mindoro taking place the next day.
After the Reformation the parish of St. Kevin was administered by the Church of Ireland; it stretched as far south as present-day Rathmines and Harold's Cross.