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The Steine of Dublin was a Viking standing stone or steinn (from Old Norse - stone) which was used to mark the landing spot and point of docking for Viking longships in Dublin and signify their ownership of the surrounding lands.
'River Run' was designed by Dublin City Council Parks and Landscape Services to honour Dublin's designation as a UNESCO City of Literature. It is an element of a quote from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake: Grass Seed Saint Anne's Park, Raheny: early 1970s: unknown [24] The Mad Cow Saint Anne's Park: 1996: St. John Hennessy [24] Tree of Life Saint ...
Hodges Figgis is a long-operating bookshop in central Dublin, Ireland.Founded in 1768, [3] it is probably the third-oldest functioning bookshop in the world, [3] after the Livraria Bertrand of Lisbon (1732) and Pennsylvania's Moravian Book Shop (1745).
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St. Mary's Abbey (Irish: Mainistir Mhuire) was a former Cistercian abbey located near the junction of Abbey Street and Capel Street in Dublin, Ireland.Its territory stretched from the district known as Oxmanstown down along the River Liffey until it met the sea.
The street formerly marked the southern edge of the River Liffey, and was known in Irish as Sráid na Toinne ("street of the waves"). Its name may refer to the "fleet" of ships that moored along it, or it may be imitative of Fleet Street, London; many streets on Dublin's southside are named for London streets, and Dublin's Fleet Street is east of Dublin's Temple Bar, just as London's Fleet ...
The Kingdom of Dublin (Old Norse: Dyflin [1]) was a Norse kingdom in Ireland that lasted from roughly 853 AD to 1170 AD. It was the first and longest-lasting Norse kingdom in Ireland, founded by Vikings who invaded the territory around Dublin in the 9th century.
Dublin (/ ˈ d ʌ b l ɪ n / ⓘ; Irish: Baile Átha Cliath, [10] pronounced [ˈbˠalʲə aːhə ˈclʲiə] or [ˌbʲlʲaː ˈclʲiə]) is the capital city of Ireland. [11] [12] On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range.