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The Phoenix Park (Irish: Páirc an Fhionnuisce [1]) is a large urban park in Dublin, Ireland, lying 2–4 kilometres (1.2–2.5 mi) west of the city centre, north of the River Liffey. Its 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) perimeter wall encloses 707 hectares (1,750 acres) of recreational space.
The Wellington Monument (Irish: Leacht Wellington), [2] or sometimes the Wellington Testimonial, [a] is an obelisk located in the Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland. The testimonial is situated at the southeast end of the Park, overlooking Kilmainham and the River Liffey. The structure is 62 metres (203 ft) tall, making it the largest obelisk in ...
Dublin c. 1831 (from the Phoenix Park) The Protestant Ascendancy was shocked by the events of the 1790s, as was the British government. In response to them, in 1801 under the Irish Act of Union , which merged the Kingdom of Ireland with the Kingdom of Great Britain to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland the Irish Parliament ...
The Magazine Fort is a bastion fort and magazine located within the Phoenix Park, in Dublin, Ireland.Built in 1735, it was occupied by British Armed Forces until 1922 when it was turned over to the Irish Defence Forces after the Anglo-Irish Treaty.
Mountjoy House, the headquarters of Ordnance Survey Ireland, in the Phoenix Park, Dublin. Thomas Colby, the long-serving Director-General of the Ordnance Survey in Great Britain, was the first to suggest that the Ordnance Survey be used to map Ireland. A highly detailed survey of the whole of Ireland would be extremely useful for the British ...
There is no official residence of the Taoiseach, with each Taoiseach residing in either their own homes, or in an apartment in Dublin.In the 1970s, plans were made to turn the former Apostolic Nunciature (formerly the Under Secretary's Lodge) in the Phoenix Park into an official residence.
In 1945, the wheelchair-using retiring first President of Ireland, Douglas Hyde, was judged too ill to return to his Roscommon country house, Ratra. It was decided instead to move him into the vacant residence in the grounds of the Lodge (then renamed Áras an Uachtaráin). [6]
The Royal Military Infirmary, looking from Phoenix Park The RMI and all other British Military installations fell under the direct control of the Irish Free State ( Saorstát Éireann ) in 1922 and the Department of Defence became the managing entity of the old Infirmary site and that remains the case to the present day.