After completing his work in Ulster, Michael Newman was appointed clerk of works for the reconstruction of the Four Courts in Dublin, one of the most symbolically important projects of the new Irish Free State following the Civil War. The family settled at 19 Berkeley Road, beside the Mater Hospital, where they lived from the mid‑1920s until 1953.
Berkeley Road was a middle‑class, professional neighbourhood—home to civil servants, teachers, architects, and skilled tradesmen. It provided the Newman children with stability, education, and access to the expanding opportunities of a modernising Ireland.
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