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  Dublin
Through Dublin was in terms of street layout a mediæval city akin to Paris, in the eighteenth century (as Paris would in the nineteenth century) it underwent a major rebuilding, with the Wide Streets Commission[?] demolishing many of the narrow mediæval streets and replacing them with large georgian streets.
Dublin City is governed by Dublin City Council (formerly called Dublin Corporation) which is presided over by the Lord Mayor of Dublin, who is elected for a yearly term and resides in the Mansion House, which first became the residence of the Lord Mayor in 1715.
Dublin's middle class liberal elite are often described as Dublin 4[?], referring to one of the city's wealthiest postal districts, in which the studios of Radio Telifís Éireann (Ireland's main broadcasting network) is located, as are a number of elite schools.
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 Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Dublin (Irish: Baile Átha Cliath) is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Ireland, located near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey in the County Dublin.
Dublin's middle class liberals are often described as Dublin 4, referring to one of the city's wealthiest postal districts, in which the studios of Radio Telifís Éireann, the national broadcaster are located, as are a number of respected schools, colleges and a university.
Dublin Institute of Technology is a modern technical college and is the countries largest non-university third level institution, it specialises in a wide technical but also has unique arts courses it is soon to move to the Grangegorman Campus.
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The Northside is traditionally viewed as being more working class than its counterpart across the river, the Southside, and there is something of a rivalry between the two.
Dublin City University, Dublin's newest university, is located on the Northside, in the Glasnevin area.
Northside is also the name of a shopping centre in Coolock, Dublin.
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The earliest reference to Dublin is in the writings of Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy), the Greek astronomer and cartographer, around the year A.D., who calls it Eblana.
The University of Dublin is the oldest university in Ireland dating from the Trinity College, Dublin established by Royal Charter under Elizabeth I.
Dublin Institute of Technology is a modern technical college and is the countries largest non-university third level institution, it specialises in a wide technical but also has unique arts courses.
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 Dublin, Ireland - Basic Travel Information
Parts of Dublin that used to be rundown and considered bad areas are now he most happening spots in Dublin.
Dublin is divided in two by the River Liffey.
Northside Dublin – For the traveler, some key spots in the northside of Dublin are O'Connell Street which is mainly on the northside, but does enter into the southside via the O'Connell Bridge across the Liffey.
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 Northside (Dublin) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dublin City University, Dublin's newest university, is located in Glasnevin.
Bram Stoker, author of Dracula, lived in the Fairview/Marino area on The Crescent, a curved terrace of houses reminiscent of the Royal Crescent in Bath.
Two Taoisigh, Bertie Ahern and the late Charles Haughey are from the Northside - Ahern from Drumcondra and Haughey from Donnycarney.
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 Dublin Smart Travel Tips | Fodor's Online Travel Guide
Traffic in Ireland has increased exponentially in the last few years, and nowhere has the impact been felt more than in Dublin, where the city's complicated one-way streets are congested not only during the morning and evening rush hours but often during much of the day.
Dublin has many car-rental companies, and it pays to shop around and to avoid "cowboy" outfits without proper licenses.
Although the taxi fleet in Dublin is large, the cabs are nonstandard and some cars are neither spacious nor in pristine condition.
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 Dublin Features | Fodor's Online Travel Guide
He set all his major works -- Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegan's Wake -- in the city where he was born and spent the first 22 years of his life, and although he spent the next 36 years in self-imposed exile, he never wrote about anywhere else.
Joyce knew and remembered Dublin in such detail that he bragged (and that's the word) that if the city were destroyed, it could be rebuilt in its entirety from his written works.
Begin in the heart of the Northside, on Prince's Street, next to the GPO (General Post Office), where the office of the old and popular Freeman's Journal newspaper (published 1763-1924) was located before it was destroyed during the 1916 Easter Uprising.
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 Hotels in North Dublin City - Dublin Hotels in Ireland
Dublin is known for great singers from Ronny Drew to the late Luke Kelly.
Dubliners are proud of their great literary and cultural history.
No visit to Dublin's northside would be complete without a trip to Croke Park and the GAA sports museum, The guest should try to fit in a GAA football or hurling match into their itinerary.
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 The Ireland Funds - Destination Dublin
Dublin's magnificent physical setting with the sweep of Dublin Bay and the shadowy silhouettes of the Wicklow Mountains to the south providing an exhilarating backdrop.
Medieval Dublin was subject to the fortunes of the English royals but it sustained its importance because of its use as a port.
Today Dublin is a fusion of Georgian Classical buildings and examples of a more International Modern style with large public parks and botanical gardens all adding to its unique urban charm.
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 Dublin | Where To Stay| City Guide | WCities Destination Guide
There are a number of centrally-located areas of Dublin that offer a choice of accommodation, with hotels ranging from the budget to the more luxurious.
Dublin's northside (the river Liffey divides the city in two) still remains rather downmarket, and is even considered dangerous by some.
The hotel is featured in the climax of Joyce's short story The Dead (the final episode in Dubliners), and is also a stone's throw away from the General Post Office, which was the focal point for the bloody 1916 Easter Rising.
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 Dublin postal districts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dublin postal districts are used by Ireland's postal service, known as An Post, to sort mail in the Dublin area.
Exceptions to this are the Phoenix Park (along with a small area between the Park and the River Liffey), and Chapelizod Village which, whilst being on the Northside of Dublin, are parts of the Dublin 8 and Dublin 20 postal districts respectively.
In 1985, Dublin 6 was split, with some areas, such as Templeogue, Kimmage and Terenure becoming part of a new district in order to facilitate processing of mail by a new sorting office for those areas.
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 The bright side of Northside Sunday Herald, The - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
"Northside Realism" was the label for a new style of fiction - urban, streetwise, consciously iconoclastic - which took as its setting the bleak working-class housing estates to the north of Dublin.
From this perspective, Dublin, and particularly working-class Dublin, was debased, decadent, not sufficiently "Irish".
It was to challenge such prejudices that writers such as Doyle and Bolger sought to vindicate working-class Dublin as a legitimate subject for literature.
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 Dublin : Active Pursuits : Golf | Frommers.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Dublin is one of the world's great golfing capitals.
About 16km (10 miles) from the city center on Dublin's Northside, on a spit of land between the Irish Sea and a tidal inlet, this course was opened in 1894.
The century-old par-73 championship seaside links is on an island in Dublin Bay, 4.8km (3 miles) northeast of the city center.
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 Dublin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
From the 14th to late 16th centuries, Dublin and the surrounding area - known as the Pale - was the largest area of Ireland under government control.
Dublin, like the rest of Ireland, is relatively safe from common natural disasters (tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, tidal waves/tsunamis etc).
For example, the President of Ireland's residence, Áras an Uachtaráin, is on the Northside, although its postal district is Dublin 8, a Southside number.
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 Gavin Friday - the World According to Gavin Friday
Gavin was one of a group of pioneering artists from Finglas East who had a massive impact on the Dublin music scene during the punk explosion that hit the city during the mid to late 70s.
When Gavin was in his early teens he began to hang around with Bono and the Rowan family who also came from the area and as teenagers do, the lads found their identity through a shared love of music.
Although their music has proved more popular on the continent that at home Gavin is still extremely proud of his Northside background and often drags Bono from his Killiney home back over to this side of the Liffey for a pint.
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 Dublin Highlights - Latest Events Highlights in Dublin, Ireland
Dublin, the thriving capital of Ireland is the talk of the town.
Dublin features a number of highlights that can be a source of immense tourist attraction all around the year.
The Dublin Events team has sorted out a list of all the major highlights taking place in the city and hopes that all will be able to provide the entertainment much more than you ever anticipated.
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 Northside - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An acute care hospital located in north east Tennessee.
Northside High School, one of many schools so-named
Northside Middle School in the community of Ocean View, in the city of Norfolk, Virginia
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 Dublin Northside   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
She was born in Rathfarnham, Dublin and has trained and worked as a secondary school teacher.
Since becoming a full-time TM teacher she has taught the technique in her native city, and in Louth, Belfast, Cavan, Cork, and Monaghan.
Since 2002, she has concentrated on her teaching in the north side of Dublin.
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 Why did Mary Harney give George Bush Irish Citizens' Information? - Indymedia Ireland
Wage slaves in Citywest, Dublin may have noticed Carlyle-funded companies moving in with astonishing frequency into the anonymity of commercial units there as Carlyle made poor investments in the IT sector over the last 3 years.
Back in Ireland, in Northside Dublin, The Carlyle Group have a large building in which the US Department of Defense's back catalogue is kept under wraps.
Northside Dublin is an infinitely less secure location than an unnamed location deep within a USA army base.
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 Welcome to Northside Partnership
The Northside Partnership works closely with the SCPs that operate within its catchment area.
The School Completion Programmes work with a target group of students, who may be experiencing difficulties in school and who may be at risk of early school leaving.
In conjunction with the Dublin 17 School Completion Programme, the Northside Partnership established the Breakfast Clubs in 1998, for schools in the Dublin 17 area.
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IT was meant to be the O'Rourke's dream home in a new Ballymun.But the three bedroomed house they moved into at Belclare Drive on Halloween night of 2001 has turned into a horror show for the family of four.
Pressure is mounting on the Dublin North TD, GV Wright (FF), to resign from Dail Eireann.
PLANS overcome traffic concerns in Castleknock by installing ramps is not a solution, according to a residents' spokesman.
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 Dublin People Group - Corporate
The Dublin People Group is the leading publisher of local newspapers in Ireland.
Our four titles ­ The Northside People (east), The Northside People (west), and The Southside People are the top providers of local news across the city.
Our main title was renamed The Northside People (east), and now is available in an area stretching as far north as Swords and Skerries, bounded on the west by Santry and on the east by Howth, Baldoyle and Sutton.
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 North Dublin City hotels in Dublin North - Hotels in Dublin, Ireland
Dublin International Airport is also located nearby which is very convenient for the busy traveller.
The Skylon Hotel: This McEniff hotel is conveniently situated between Dublin’s City Centre and Dublin's International Airport.
Days Hotel Talbot Street: Close to Dublin’s city centre this hotel is ideally located and offers amazing value for money.
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 » Northside Dublin City - Hotels in Dublin Blog
The historic area of O’Connell Street is home to the GPO building, which was the centre of the 1916 rising.
The street is also home to numerous monuments including the modern, controversial Monument of Light  (known locally as the Spire or the Spike).
This entry was posted on Friday, October 13th, 2006 at 5:50 am and is filed under Visitor attractions in Dublin.
www.dublinhotelreservations.com /travelblog/2006/10/13/northside-dublin-city   (171 words)

  
 Dublin Bus - News Centre - Dublin Bus News
DART Upgrade works at weekends on the northside of Dublin have now resumed following the 2004 Christmas and New Year period, and will affect DART services between Pearse and Howth/Malahide on Saturdays and Sundays.
The northside programme of works is expected to continue until mid 2005.
As a result, Dublin Bus is pleased to announce that additional Dublin Bus services will operate along routes adjacent to the DART line for the duration of the disruption.
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 Northside Dublin - Dublin on ForumForUs
Along the north quays of the Liffey are the Customs House, the International Financial Services Centre, The Point Theatre, Dublin Woolen Mills and the Four Courts.
There are many castles on the Northside including Castleknock Castle, Howth Castle, Malahide Castle and Swords Castle.
Many state bodies such as the national meteorological office, Met Éireann, the Central Fisheries Board, and the national enterprise and trade board, Enterprise Ireland are based on the Northside.
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 » 2006 » October » 13 - Hotels in Dublin Blog
The Northside of Dublin City is a busy area with numerous attractions to suit visitors of all tastes.
The area is home to wonderful historic sights such as Trinity College, Leinster House and Dublin Castle.
Southside Dublin City is dotted with restaurants to suit all tastes and budgets, as well as numerous lovely, little cafes.
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