The Chief Secretary's Lodge, known since the 1970s as Deerfield, is the official residence of the United States Ambassador to Ireland. The Lodge is an 18th century building in the centre of the Phoenix Park in Dublin. It was originally built by Sir John Blaquiere, 1st Baron de Blaquiere then Chief Secretary for Ireland and taken over to become the Chief Secretary's Dublin residence in the late 18th century.

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  • The Chief Secretary's Lodge, known since the 1970s as Deerfield, is the official residence of the United States Ambassador to Ireland. The Lodge is an 18th century building in the centre of the Phoenix Park in Dublin. It was originally built by Sir John Blaquiere, 1st Baron de Blaquiere then Chief Secretary for Ireland and taken over to become the Chief Secretary's Dublin residence in the late 18th century. Until the abolition of the post in 1922 it served as the official residence in Dublin of the Chief Secretary, the second-in-command in the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland's administration. The Chief Secretary played a role akin to a prime minister in the administration. Following the establishment of the Irish Free State a number of possible uses for the empty residences in the Phoenix Park were considered, from sale or demolition to turning the Chief Secretary's Lodge into a residence for the President of the Executive Council (prime minister). The latter suggestion, by the Minister for Finance, Ernest Blythe was rejected by then president W. T. Cosgrave. In the mid 1920s plans were made to move the Governor-General of the Irish Free State, Timothy Michael Healy, from his large and costly Viceregal Lodge official residence to the smaller Chief Secretary's Lodge across the road. Healy however expressed a wish that, if he was to move at all, it should be to his private home in Chapelizod. Believing that Healy's home was too exposed and a security risk, the Executive Council of the Irish Free State (cabinet) chose to leave Healy in the Viceregal Lodge. Instead the Chief Secretary's Lodge was rented on a ten year lease to the United States government, to become a combined ambassador's residence and embassy. In January 1938, with the American lease nearly up, the Irish Government decided to make the Chief Secretary's Lodge the official residence of the President of Ireland. The decision was rescinded when a report from the Office of Public Works advised the Taoiseach, Éamon de Valera that the building was structurally unsound and would need expensive remedial work of the sort that could not be completed in time for the planned presidential entry into office in June. The President was later installed in the vacant Viceregal Lodge nearby. The building was re-rented to the United States government. The embassy was later moved to a purpose-built building, leaving the Lodge as the Ambassador's residence. In the 1970s the building was given the name Deerfield by the wife of the then United States ambassador on account of the number of deer who roam in the open parkland around the mansion. It has been periodically suggested that the building should become the residence of the Taoiseach. It remains for the moment, however, the residence of the US Ambassador. Presidents John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton all stayed there during Irish visits. President Ronald Reagan stayed elsewhere. In 2005 the idea of turning the Chief Secretary's Lodge into a taoiseach's residence seemed to have been abandoned when the Office of Public Works instead applied for planning permission to turn the former ranger's residence in the grounds of the state guest palace, Farmleigh, into a small taoiseach's residence instead.
  • O Chief Secretary's Lodge, conhecido desde a década de 1970 como Deerfield, é a residência oficial do Embaixador dos Estados Unidos da América na Irlanda. O pavilhão é um edifício setecentista situado no centro do Phoenix Park, em Dublin. Foi construído originalmente por Sir John Blaquiere, 1º Barão de Blaquiere, então Chefe de Secretaria da Irlanda (Chief Secretary for Ireland), tendo-se tornado na residência oficial em Dublin do Chefe de Secretaria no final do século XVIII, função que desempenhou até à abolição do cargo, em 1922. O Chefe de Secretaria, número dois na hierarquia da administração do Lorde-tenente da Irlanda (Lord Lieutenant of Ireland), desempenhava um papel equivalente ao de primeiro-ministro naquela administração. Depois do estabelecimento do Estado Livre Irlandês foram considerados vários usos possíveis para a residência vazia no Phoenix Park, desde a venda à demolição de forma a tornar o Chief Secretary's Lodge numa residência para o Presiednte do Conselho Executivo (primeiro-ministro). A última sugestão, feita pelo Ministro das Finanças, Ernest Blythe, foi rejeitada pelo então presidente, W. T. Cosgrave. Em meadis da década de 1920, foram feitos planos para mudar o Governador-Geral do Estado Livre da Irlanda, Timothy Michael Healy, do Viceregal Lodge, a sua grande e dispendiosa residência oficial, para o mais pequeno Chief Secretary's Lodge, do outro lado da rua. Healy, no entanto, expressou o desejo de, a ter mesmo de mudar-se, essa mudança devia ser para a sua residência privada na aldeia de Chapelizod. Acreditando que a casa de Healy estava demasiado exposta e apresentava riscos de segurança, o Conselho Executivo do Estado Livre Irlandês optou por manter Healy no Viceregal Lodge. Em vez disso, o Chief Secretary's Lodge foi arrendado por dez anos ao Governo dos Estados Unidos da América, para se tornar simultaneamente em residência do embaixador e embaixada. Em Janeiro de 1938, com o arrendamento americano a chegar ao fim, o Governo irlandês decidiu fazer do Chief Secretary's Lodge a residência oficial do Presidente da Irlanda. A decisão foi revogada quando um relatório do Gabinete de Obras Públicas (Office of Public Works) avisou o Taoiseach (primeiro-ministo), Eamon de Valera, que o edifício não tinha, estruturalmente, isolamento sonoro e que necessitaria de obras de recuperação dispendiosas, de forma que não estaria concluído a tempo para a planeada entrada em funções presidencial, prevista para Junho. O Presidente foi mais tarde instalado no vizinho Viceregal Lodge, o qual se encontrava vago. O edifício voltou a ser arrendado ao Governo dos E.U.A. A embaixada foi mudada mais tarde para um edifício construído propositadamente, ficando este palácio unicamente como residência do embaixador. Na década de 1970 foi dado ao palácio o nome de Deerfield pela esposa do então embaixador norte-americano, em referência ao grande número de cervídeos que vagueavam no parque aberto em volta do edifício. Tem sido periodicamente sugerido que o palácio devia tornar-se na residência oficial do Taoiseach. No entanto, permanece por enquanto como residência do embaixador dos E.U.A. na Irlanda. Os presidentes John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon e Bill Clinton estiveram, todos eles, instalados ali durante as suas visitas irlandesas. O presidente Ronald Reagan ficou algures noutro lugar. Em 2005, a ideia de tornar o Chief Secretary's Lodge numa residência do taoiseach parecia ter sido abandonada, quando o Gabinete de Obra Públicas permitiu a elaboração de planos para tornar a antiga residência dos guardas florestais existente nos campos do Farmleigh, o palácio destinado aos visitantes de estado, numa pequena residência para o taoiseach.
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  • The Chief Secretary's Lodge, known since the 1970s as Deerfield, is the official residence of the United States Ambassador to Ireland. The Lodge is an 18th century building in the centre of the Phoenix Park in Dublin. It was originally built by Sir John Blaquiere, 1st Baron de Blaquiere then Chief Secretary for Ireland and taken over to become the Chief Secretary's Dublin residence in the late 18th century.
  • O Chief Secretary's Lodge, conhecido desde a década de 1970 como Deerfield, é a residência oficial do Embaixador dos Estados Unidos da América na Irlanda. O pavilhão é um edifício setecentista situado no centro do Phoenix Park, em Dublin.
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