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From the 9th to the 12th century Viking/Norse-Gael Dublin in particular was a major slave trading center which led to an increase in slavery. [6] In 870, Vikings, most likely led by Olaf the White and Ivar the Boneless, besieged and captured the stronghold of Dumbarton Castle (Alt Clut), the capital of the Kingdom of Strathclyde in Scotland, and the next year took most of the site's ...
Phoenix Park. Outside car (Jaunting car).Postcard, c. 1905 The park's name is derived from the Irish fhionnuisce, meaning clear or still water. [7]After the Normans conquered Dublin and its hinterland in the 12th century, Hugh Tyrrel, 1st Baron of Castleknock, granted a large area of land, including what now comprises the Phoenix Park, to the Knights Hospitaller.
Ireland c. 900. The First Viking Age in Ireland began in 795, when Vikings began carrying out hit-and-run raids on Gaelic Irish coastal settlements. Over the following decades the raiding parties became bigger and better organized; inland settlements were targeted as well as coastal ones; and the raiders built naval encampments known as longphorts to allow them to remain in Ireland throughout ...
The General Post Office (GPO; Irish: Ard-Oifig an Phoist) is the former headquarters of An Post — the Irish Post Office. It remains its registered office and the principal post office of Dublin [1] — the capital city of Ireland — and is situated in the centre of O'Connell Street, the city's main thoroughfare.
St. Michan's Church / ˈ m aɪ ˌ k ən / is a Church of Ireland church located in Church Street, Dublin, Ireland. The first Christian chapel on this site dated from 1095, and operated as a Catholic church until the Reformation. [4] The current church dates from 1686, and has served Church of Ireland parishioners in Dublin for more than 300 years.
The Barracks and Posts of Ireland – 21: Collins Barracks, Dublin, part 3, pages 48–52, by Patrick Denis O'Donnell in An Cosantoir, Dublin, February 1973. The Barracks and Posts of Ireland – 22: Royal or Collins Barracks, part 4, the eighteenth century, pages 266–276, by Patrick Denis O'Donnell in An Cosantoir, Dublin, August 1973.
Curry is a common surname used in Ireland, Scotland and England. Currey is a less common variant. In England and Scotland, is it thought to derive from local place names and, in Scotland, also possibly from MacMhuirrich. [1] [2]
In the Star Trek: Voyager episode Fair Haven set in a holographic 19th century Ireland near Dublin, Captain Janeway reprograms the hologram character Michael Sullivan to have "the education of a 19th century 3rd year student at Trinity College". [196] Claire Kilroy's novel All Names Have Been Changed is set in Trinity College in the 1990s. The ...