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Carlisle Pier July 1980, the last year of the trains with the Pier now modified for a Car Ferry. Construction of the pier started in 1853 and was completed in 1855. The railway station opened in 1859. [8]: 19 The pier was named after the Earl of Carlisle, then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. [12] In subsequent years many Irish people emigrated from it.
The Kingstown lifeboat disaster [1] occurred on Christmas Eve 1895 off Kingstown (now Dún Laoghaire), Ireland, when the Kingstown lifeboat was capsized while attempting to rescue the crew of the stricken SS Palme. The crew of fifteen were lost. The event is commemorated annually at Dún Laoghaire Harbour. [2]
Dún Laoghaire [1] (/ d ʌ n ˈ l ɪər i / dun LEER-ee, Irish: [ˌd̪ˠuːn̪ˠ ˈl̪ˠeːɾʲə,-ˈl̪ˠiːɾʲə]) is a suburban coastal town in County Dublin in Ireland. It is the administrative centre of the county of Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown.
Krapp's "vision at last", on the pier at Dún Laoghaire. In an earlier draft of the play Beckett "uses 'beacon' and 'anemometer' rather than 'lighthouse' and 'wind-gauge'. The anemometer on the East Pier of Dún Laoghaire was one of the world's first. [It is] widely regarded as a mirror reflection of Beckett's own revelation.
The former No.1 lifeboat house, built in 1862 and located next to the East Pier, was subsequently re-commissioned, and is now the Inshore lifeboat house. [1] [12] 2025 will mark the 30th anniversary of the arrival of the Trent-class lifeboat 14-05 Anna Livia (On 1200), which arrived at Dún Laoghaire on 29 June 1995. The lifeboat was funded by ...
The original station for Dún Laoghaire, then known as Kingstown, was situated some 0.5 miles (0.80 km) closer to Dublin at the West Pier near to or at the present-day Salthill and Monkstown railway station.
Seapoint (Irish: Rinn na Mara) is a small seafront area between Blackrock and Monkstown in Dublin in the Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown area. It is best known for its beach and bathing areas, beside a Martello Tower on the Dublin Bay seashore. The beach currently has an International Blue flag award and a national Green flag award. [1]
The National Maritime Museum of Ireland (Irish: Músaem Mhuirí Náisiúnta na hÉireann) opened in 1978 in the former Mariners' Church in Moran Park, located between the seafront and the centre of Dún Laoghaire town, southeast of Dublin city. President Michael D. Higgins officially re-opened the museum in 2012.