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General Map of the Environs of Dublin and parts of Wicklow Google Map interface; 1852 Dublin Street Directory Map showing the boundaries of several wards Size: 40.5 cm x 28 cm. Scale: 4 and one-eighth inches to one statute mile. General Post Office Directory. Colour map Flickr photo; 1863 Dublin showing the Boundaries of several Wards.
1702 – State Paper Office established in Dublin Castle. 1707 – Marsh's Library incorporated. [1]1707 - The original Custom House opens on Custom House Quay, Dublin.; 1708 – The Registry of Deeds is established by an Irish Act of Parliament entitled "An Act for the Publick Registering of all Deeds, Conveyances and Wills that shall be made of any Honors, Manors, Lands, Tenements or ...
The Paulhan-Tatin Aéro-Torpille No.1, (also known as Paulhan-Tatin Aero Torpedo), was a French experimental aircraft built in 1911 as a collaboration between the famous pilot Louis Paulhan and Victor Tatin, a scientist who had experimented with various types of flying models and in 1879 had made the first model aircraft to take off under its own power.
9 August – A statue of Charles Stewart Parnell was hoisted onto its pedestal in Sackville Street, Dublin. 17 August – Dublin County Council voted in favour of using Greenwich Mean Time. The councillors heard that Irish time, being 25 minutes behind Greenwich, was a great handicap for trade.
The original records of the 1821 to 1851 censuses were destroyed by fire at the Four Courts in Dublin during the Irish Civil War, while those between 1861 and 1891 were possibly pulped during the First World War. [2] All that remained were the 1901 and 1911 census, with the latter put online in 2009 by the National Archives of Ireland. [2]
When the Model T sprang from a 'hive's mind,' it was the fulfillment of Henry Ford’s quest to produce affordable, reliable vehicles.
The defences of Dublin would eventually fall into disrepair but continued to serve a purpose as late as 1762 when the auction of the rights to collect tolls at each of the then seven city gates raised £4,000 for the city. [4] Below is a list of the historic Gates of Dublin along the city's ancient boundaries:
To save an old Dublin home, developers spent the past few weeks gutting it, and then ramming 10 steel joists through its sides before moving it. Historic Dublin homes gutted, moved, as part of ...