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Dublin Airport (owned and operated by DAA) is located north of Dublin city, near Swords in the administrative county of Fingal. The headquarters of Ireland's flag carrier Aer Lingus and regional airline CityJet are located there, and those of low-cost carrier Ryanair nearby. The airport offers a short and medium-haul network, domestic services ...
In 2012, the Little Museum of Dublin was nominated for the European Museum of the Year Award. [citation needed] An Irish Times article of May 2013 listed the Little Museum as the "best museum experience in Dublin". [9] In 2014, TripAdvisor awarded the museum with a Certificate of Excellence for the third year in a row.
Christ Church Cathedral (exterior) Siege of Dublin, 1535. The Earl of Kildare's attempt to seize control of Ireland reignited English interest in the island. After the Anglo-Normans taking of Dublin in 1171, many of the city's Norse inhabitants left the old city, which was on the south side of the river Liffey and built their own settlement on the north side, known as Ostmantown or "Oxmantown".
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Dublin Zoo (Irish: Zú Bhaile Átha Cliath [3] [4]), in Phoenix Park, is a zoo in Dublin, Ireland, and one of Dublin's most popular attractions. Established and designed in 1830 by Decimus Burton, it opened the following year. [5] [6] Today it focuses on conservation projects, breeding programmes, and growing awareness for animals. [7]
The Artane and Beaumont Family Recreation Centre is a community centre at the junction of Skelly's Lane, and Kilmore Road, it is used for a variety of social activities, music societies, childcare, afterschool homework club as well as sporting activities such as Basketball, Volleyball and Badminton. Rockfield Park is a park located in Beaumont.
James Collins' 1913 book Life in Old Dublin notes that "Centuries ago (Stoneybatter) was called Bothar-na-gCloch". In Joyce's Irish names of places we find the following interesting information as to the original name of the place: "Long before the city had extended so far, and while Stoneybatter was nothing more than a country road, it was -- as it continues to be -- the great thoroughfare to ...
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