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83 unusual facts about Dublin


Aleksandr Rodzyanko

His brother Paul Rodyzinako became an instructor at the Irish cavalry school in Dublin and later emigrating to America.

Annesley Bridge

Annesley Bridge crosses the River Tolka in Fairview.

Anthony Norris Groves

In 1826, while continuing his dentistry in Exeter, he enrolled as an external student of theology at Trinity College, Dublin, with a view to ordination in the Church of England and appointment with the Church Missionary Society.

Arthur Ducat

Ducat was an immigrant from County Dublin, Ireland, where he was born in Kingstown on February 24, 1830.

Benoît Baby

Baby made his début for the national team during the 2005 Six Nations, against Ireland in Dublin.

Billy Whelan

On 8 December 2006 the railway bridge on Fassaugh Road/Dowth Avenue junction in Cabra, Dublin 7 close to Dalymount Park was renamed in his honour.

Bon Secours Hospital, Cork

It forms part of the Bon Secours Health System, the largest private healthcare network in Ireland, which includes hospitals in Dublin, Galway, and Tralee.

Brandon Anderson

Anderson attended Pulaski County High School in Dublin, Virginia.

Brandon Anderson (born December 10, 1985 in Dublin, Virginia) is an American football cornerback who is a currently a free agent.

Brendan Grace

Born in the heart of Dublin in 1951, Brendan was raised in the inner city Liberties neighborhood.

Cabragh

Cabra, Dublin, Republic of Ireland; formerly spelt Cabragh

Cairo Gang

However, the IRA Intelligence Department (IRAID) was one step ahead of them and was receiving information from numerous well-placed sources, including Lily Merin, who was the confidential code clerk for British Army Intelligence Centre in Parkgate Street, and Sergeant Jerry Mannix, stationed in Donnybrook.

Cappagh National Orthopaedic Hospital

It is now a major tertiary orthopaedic hospital, and provides tertiary elective orthopaedic services for the hospitals of the region including St. Vincent's Hospital, Mater Hospital, Beaumont Hospital, James Connolly Memorial Hospital, Temple Street Children's Hospital, and Central Remedial Clinic.

Church of St Mary on the Rock

John Comyn, the first Anglo-Norman Archbishop of Dublin, created a new collegiate church at St Patricks parish church, a collegiate church his successor Henry de Loundres turned into a second cathedral.

Clement Robertson

The family was from Ireland and Clement grew up in Delgany, although he went to school at Haileybury before attending Trinity College, Dublin.

Clifton Robinson

Sir (James) Clifton Robinson (1849-1910) was known as the "Tramway King", having involvement in the building and operating of street tramways in New York, London, Liverpool, Dublin, Cork, Bristol, Edinburgh and Los Angeles.

Clofazimine

Clofazimine, initially known as B663, was first synthesised in 1954 by a team with the scientists J.G. Belton, M.L. Conalty, Seán O'Sullivan and Dermot Twomey led by Dr Vincent Barry, from Sunday's Well in Cork at Trinity College, Dublin as an anti-tuberculosis drug.

Clyde Lamb

At the age of 53, he died of pancreatic disease in Dublin, Ireland on July 8, 1966, and was cremated at the Belfast Crematorium in Northern Ireland on August 12, 1966.

Dan Breen

Another incident occurred in Dublin when he shot his way out through a British military cordon in the northern suburb of Drumcondra (Fernside) in which he and volunteer Seán Treacy escaped only for Treacy to be killed soon after.

Dawson Street

Saint Ann's Church is found on the eastern side and the Mansion House near the south end.

Dermot Mannion

He went on to Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Business Studies in 1979.

Donnybrook, KwaZulu-Natal

It was named after Donnybrook, a suburb of Dublin, by Robert Comrie, the owner of the farm on which it was laid out.

Dorset Street

Dorset Street, Dublin, an important thoroughfare on the northside of Dublin, Ireland

Dublin Cathedral

St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, the Church of Ireland national cathedral in Dublin, Ireland

Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, the Church of Ireland cathedral of the Diocese of Dublin

Dublin, Maryland

In old records reference is made of the Mt. Ararat Lodge of Masons, Maryland, which moved its meeting place in 1809 from a tavern in Delta, Pennsylvania to George McCausland's tavern in Dublin.

Dublin, North Carolina

Dublin is located on North Carolina Highway 87 and is known as the "Peanut Capital of North Carolina."

Dublin, Texas

American jurist and 1924 Texas Republican gubernatorial nominee George C. Butte married and resided in Dublin for several years and is interred there at Live Oak Cemetery.

Dublin is the site of the January 2008 UFO sightings as featured on various national media networks and has been featured on the History Channel's UFO Hunters Episode 110.

Edward Fitton, the elder

He was buried on 21 September in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin beside his wife Anne Warburton.

Edward Parrott

He was educated at St. Paul's College, Cheltenham and then became an elementary schoolteacher, studying for a MA degree at Trinity College, Dublin at the same time.

Edward Veel

Between those graduation dates, he was elected fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, and was promoted to a senior fellowship before 24 November 1656.

Fanny Alger

The Algers stopped in Dublin, Wayne County, Indiana, and there Fanny met and, on November 16, 1838, married Solomon Custer, a non-Mormon, listed in various censuses as a grocer, baker, and merchant.

Foundling Mick

After barely surviving the fire at Ragged School which separated the friends, Grip settled as a fireman on a steam vessel Vulcan, making regular trips between Dublin and the United States.

Francis Aungier, 1st Baron Aungier of Longford

Ambrose Aungier, Chancellor of St. Patrick's Cathredal, who married Grisel Bulkeley, daughter of Archbishop of Dublin, Lancelot Bulkeley, and was the father of Francis Aungier, 1st Earl of Longford, Gerald Aungier, and Ambrose Aungier, 2nd Earl of Longford

Full of Flowers

The album contains four Irish female soloists from the popular Irish choir, the Gardiner Street Gospel Choir, from Dublin, Ireland, who volunteered to record the music.

GAA 125

Events were launched at Croke Park, Dublin, with the opening match of the National Football League 2009 between Dublin and Tyrone on 31 January 2009.

Grace Gifford

Grace Gifford Plunkett died suddenly, and alone, on 13 December 1955 in an apartment in South Richmond Street.

Gustav Hamilton

Gustav's namesake great-great-grandson, barrister Gustav Hamilton, then of Dublin, laid in mid-19th century claim to the baronial title and seat of Deserf in peerage of Sweden, as he was de jure 9th friherre of Deserf.

Guy S. Houston

Houston, a resident of San Ramon, served as the Mayor of Dublin and was a real estate executive prior to serving in the Assembly.

Hedgehunter

Hedgehunter was born in January 1996 on the Tully Hill Stud in Dublin.

In Dublin

In Dublin is a folk/rock album by Alan Stivell, recorded live at the National Stadium, Dublin, on 26 and 27 November 1974, and originally released in 1975.

Irish Destiny

Irish Destiny is the first fiction film that deals with the Irish War of Independence, and the first and only film written and produced by Isaac (Jack) Eppel, a Dublin GP and pharmacist who also enjoyed a career as theater impresario and cinema owner.

Irish Law Times

The journal is now published 20 times per year in Dublin, Ireland, by Thomson Round Hall.

Jasper, Missouri

Jasper has been known as Coon Creek settlement, and as Midway (a name that at times included the Dublin community just across the Barton County line) for its position between county-seats Carthage and Lamar, but in the late 19th century it was renamed Jasper to reuse the postal equipment of a previous Jasper that existed southeast of Carthage.

Jean Joseph Amable Humbert

The expedition was able to land in Ireland at Killala on Thursday 23 August 1798, meeting with initial success in the battle of Castlebar, and subsequently declaring a Republic of Connacht, with hopes of taking Dublin.

John Balfe

Balfe was the son of James Balfe and Sara Sutherland his wife, daughter of the last Lord Duffus, was born at Sallybrook, Drumcondra, Ireland.

Langevin equation

T. Coffey (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland) and Yu P. Kalmykov (Université de Perpignan, France, The Langevin Equation: With Applications to Stochastic Problems in Physics, Chemistry and Electrical Engineering (Third edition), World Scientific Series in Contemporary Chemical Physics - Vol 27.

Lily Castel

It was a race against time for the pair, not least when they arrived in Dublin to find that the stage layout at the Gaiety Theatre was unsuitable for the routine they had rehearsed.

Lucan Concert Band

Lucan Concert Band was formed in 1983 by Eithne Donnelly, its purpose being to provide musical education to the youth in Lucan, County Dublin, Ireland, where it is based.

Maureen Potter

She was conferred with the Freedom of the City of Dublin in 1984, and was later awarded an honorary degree from Trinity College, Dublin.

Maxwell Henry Close

He was educated at Weymouth and at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1846; and two years later he entered holy orders.

Michael Joseph Barry

He recanted his early political views late in life and became a police magistrate in Dublin.

Mount Humphrey Lloyd

He named this feature for the Rev. Dr. Humphrey Lloyd of Trinity College, Dublin, an active member of the British Association which promoted interest in magnetic and meteorological research in the Antarctic.

National Road Yard Sale

Started in 2003 by Patricia McDaniel, the owner of The Old Storefront Antiques on Route 40 in Dublin, Indiana, the National Road Yard Sale offers a unique opportunity to not only travel down a road that is over 200 years old, but also to get a taste of the unique communities along the way.

NeuroSky

Because NeuroSky also produces research grade EEG technology it has partnerships with a number of universities and research intuitions including: Johns Hopkins, Brown University, Duke University, University of California San Diego, San Jose State University, Dongguk University, University of Glasgow, The Hong Kong PolyTechnic University, and Trinity College, Dublin.

Newgate Prison, Dublin

It was relocated to 'Little Green', present-day St. Michan's Park near Smithfield, and officially retained the old name.

O'Shea and Whelan

The O'Sheas initially achieved notability for their floral carvings and grotesqueries on buildings in Dublin, in particular at Trinity College and at the Kildare Street Club, including the famous window piece showing the club members as monkeys playing billiards.

One for the Man Over There

The Tides won the 2006 ATL's Rock School event, and after headed off to Windmill Lane in Dublin to record their new album.

Orthodoxy in the Republic of Ireland

When these premises were declared unsafe in 1986, the parish transferred to a house chapel in Artane.

P. Michael Conneally

In 1989, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science honoris causa degree by Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

Paddy Glynn

Glynn was born in Gort, County Galway, Ireland and educated at the French College, Blackrock and Trinity College, Dublin.

Pat Dunne

Dunne played in Dublin with Stella Maris Football Club, a club that competes in the Dublin and District Schoolboys League, in Drumcondra before playing in England for Everton.

Patrick Walshe

He has exhibited these paintings in Russborough House, courtesy of the Sir Alfred Beit Foundation in 2009 and 2010, The Orangery, Holland Park, London 2010 and most importantly in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin in April 2012.

Paul Davys

Elrington Ball suggests that Paul's rise to prominence was due to his first marriage to Margaret Ussher, granddaughter of the highly respected Sir William Ussher of Donnybrook, Clerk of the Council.

Rachel Burden

After graduating from Trinity College, Dublin, Burden began her radio career as a reporter at BBC Radio Suffolk later she joined Radio Bristol, where she co-hosted the early morning breakfast show, working alongside Nigel Dando, the brother of the murdered presenter Jill Dando.

Randolph Healy

After leaving school at the age of 14 to work in a number of jobs, he returned to full-time education and graduated in mathematical sciences from Trinity College, Dublin.

Richard Maunsell

After graduating from Trinity College, Dublin, he began an apprenticeship at the Inchicore works of the Great Southern and Western Railway (GSWR) under H. A. Ivatt in 1886, completing his training at Horwich Works on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (as Nigel Gresley had done before him).

Silver Spring Foods

In 2009, the company purchased Kelchner's Horseradish Products of Dublin, Pennsylvania.

Slim Willet

Slim Willet (Winston Lee Moore, December 1, 1919, Dublin, Texas – July 1, 1966) was an American disc jockey, musician, and songwriter.

St Stephen's Church, Dublin

It was originally conceived as a chapel-of-ease for the parish of St. Peter's, which was the largest Church of Ireland parish in Dublin.

Superquinn

The business was founded in 1960 as 'Quinns Supermarkets' in Dundalk by Feargal Quinn, and the company headquarters were later moved to Sutton, Dublin.

The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly

The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly is a poem in book one of James Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake (pages 44.24 to 47.32), where the protagonist H.C.E. has been brought low by a rumor which begins to spread across Dublin, apparently concerning a sexual trespass involving two girls in Phoenix Park; however details of HCE's transgression change with each retelling of events.

Thirtysixstrings

Thirtysixstrings was the first album from Dublin-based instrumental band The Redneck Manifesto.

Thomond deeds

The Thomond deeds are Irish deeds relating to lands and property in Thomond, County Clare, preserved in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin.

Tommaso Giordani

His last opera, The Cottage, Festival, was produced at the Theatre Royal, Dublin, 28 Nov., 1796.

Tommy Eglington

Before joining Rovers, Eglington played as a junior with both Munster Victoria and Distillery of Drumcondra and helped the latter club win the FAI Intermediate Cup in 1942.

Trans-Dublin

The two sections of the route are connected through the centre of Dublin by the Loopline Bridge over the River Liffey between Dublin Connolly and Tara Street.

Viscount Palmerston

His son Sir William Temple (1555–1627) was secretary to Sir Philip Sidney and the Earl of Essex and afterwards provost of Trinity College, Dublin.

Volvo Trucks

Today, Volvo produces class 8 Volvo trucks in its Dublin, Virginia plant and class 8 Mack truck models in Macungie, Pennsylvania.

What Is Life?

The book is based on lectures delivered under the auspices of the Institute at Trinity College, Dublin, in February 1943 and published in 1944.

What Richard Did

Richard Karlsen is the golden-boy athlete, and undisputed alpha-male of his privileged set of Dublin south side teenagers.

Yu Ming Is Ainm Dom

The film follows his adventures in trying to be understood in Dublin, where most of the population has little or no grasp of the language.


1944 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship

Bishop of Down and Connor, Daniel Mageean threw in the ball between Dublin and Antrim in final.

21 Years On

Recorded at the National Concert Hall, Dublin in 1983, this was the first album by The Dubliners to feature Seán Cannon, who joined the group when Luke Kelly could no longer perform regularly due to a brain tumour.

Adelaide Plains Football League

Football was certainly played in the other towns of Mallala, Dublin and Two Wells at that time with those clubs all officially forming in 1908.

Between the Canals

The film follows three small-time criminals as they pinball their way about Dublin on a boozy Saint Patrick's Day.

Carl Wilhelm Heine

After assisting his father in his orthopaedic institution he visited several European countries and stayed in Paris, London, Glasgow and Dublin.

Celia de Fréine

Also in 2009 the Abbey Theatre commissioned her short play Casadh which was given a rehearsed reading at the Peacock Theatre in Dublin and at An Chultúrlann in Belfast as part of the Gach Áit Eile series.

Coman Goggins

Goggins was appointed Captain for Dublin in the 2002 Senior Football Championship by the then new, Dublin Senior Football manager, Tommy Lyons.

Dè a-nis?

often presents special episodes covering a particular event, such as the opening of Bun-sgoil Ghàidhlig Inbhir Nis, St. Patrick's Day from Dublin and Galway and the mòd.

Dermot St. John Gogarty

Dermot St. John Gogarty, RIAI, RIBA, (born 1908) was a well-known Irish architect of Dublin and Galway active throughout mid-twentieth-century Ireland.

Dublin, Missouri

Today all that remains to mark the existence of the community is a single residence, a large MFA Oil propane storage tank, a few dead-end driveways to former residences, and foundation remnants along Coon Creek marking the former location of the local grist mill.

Evening Herald

The life of Herald music critic Chris Wasser was threatened by fans of boy band The Wanted in 2012 following the publication of his review of their gig in Dublin.

Fromund Le Brun

He bought Roebuck Castle, in the south of Dublin in 1261; it is possible the purchase caused him financial loss since he was rumoured to be in heavy debt shortly before his death.

George Papworth

He moved to Ireland in 1806 and took charge of the Circular Stone Manufacturers of North Strand, Dublin.

Gerry Hutch

Born in central Dublin, his criminal career started at the age of 10 when he joined and later led the 'Bugsy Malone Gang' of inner city youngsters (named after the fictional feature film) whose crimes in the 1970s included "jump-overs": they would jump over bank counters, grab whatever cash they could and run out the door.

Gerry Owens

After spending some time in London and playing in a series of bands, he returned to Dublin to form Skindive, who were quickly signed by Chris Blackwell (founder of Island Records) to his Palm Pictures label.

Goffal

Specifically suburbs mainly in Bulawayo (Thorngrove nicknamed Groove, Barham Green nicknamed B.G., Forrest Vale, Queens Park, Morningside) and Harare (Arcadia, Braeside,St. Martins) began to grow and gain a significant population but in recent years many have gone in diaspora with large groups in London, Milton Keynes, Dublin, Canada in cities and towns like St.Catharines/Hamilton/Burlington/Toronto and New Zealand.

Herbert Hasler

Hasler was born in Dublin on 27 February 1914, the youngest son of Lieutenant Arthur Thomas Hasler (a Royal Army Medical Corps quartermaster), and his wife, Annie Georgina (née Andrews).

Hillbilly's

Today the chain has nine locations throughout Ireland, including three restaurants in Cork, and restaurants in Derry, Dublin, Ennis, Letterkenny, Tralee, and Waterford.

Horace Tennyson O'Rourke

Horace Tennyson O'Rourke, (1880–1963) was Dublin city architect for Dublin Corporation, now, Dublin City Council from 1922-1945.

I Am Brazil

I Am Brazil is the third album from Dublin-based instrumental band The Redneck Manifesto.

Jennifer Johnston

Born in Dublin, to the Irish actor/director Shelah Richards and the playwright Denis Johnston, a cousin of the late actress Geraldine Fitzgerald, via Fitzgerald's mother, Edith, Johnston was educated at Trinity College Dublin, and currently lives in Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

John Ball

John Thomas Ball (1815–1898), Irish barrister and politician, Member of Parliament (MP) for Dublin University 1868–1875

John K'Eogh

He wrote Botanologia Universalis Hibernicaor, or a general Irish Herbal Cork, 1735, a herbal, or book about medicinal plants, written in Manx (not Irish but related), phonetic English, and Latin, Zoologia Medicinalis Hibernica or, a Treatise on Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Reptiles or Insects known and propagated in this Kingdom, and Vindication of the Antiquities of Ireland Dublin, 1748, in which he gives an account of his family.

Jordan Frieda

He had a small part in Steven Spielberg's TV mini series Band of Brothers and took the lead role in a controversial American TV movie called Prince William, filmed in 2002, in Dublin, Ireland, about Prince William of Wales, with whom Frieda attended Eton College.

Landsbanki

In 2005, Landsbanki acquired three European securities houses: Teather & Greenwood, located in London and Edinburgh; Kepler Capital Markets, headquartered in Paris; and Merrion Capital Group in Dublin.

Lodowick Bryskett

Bryskett describes a party of friends met at his cottage near Dublin, among whom were Dr. John Long, archbishop of Armagh, Captain Christopher Carleill, Captain Thomas Norris, Captain Warham St Leger, and Mr. Edmund Spenser, ‘once your lordship's secretary.

Lucan Bridge

Designed by George Knowles, (architect of Dublin's Fr. Mathew and O'Donovan Rossa Bridges), it was built in 1814 in collaboration with James Savage to replace several previous bridges which were carried away by floods.

Mary McEvoy

Before becoming an actress McEvoy was employed at the Department of Agriculture in Dublin as a serological assistant testing for brucellosis.

MCD Productions

The company has hosted U2 before 246,000 over 3 shows in Croke Park, 135,000 for Robbie Williams 2003 and 107,000 for Red Hot Chili Peppers 2004 in the Phoenix Park, to bringing together David Bowie, Placebo and Talvin Singh for an event in Dublin.

Mediterranean Division

Therefore, he positioned both his battlecruisers and Dublin at the west end of the Strait of Messina.

Moneygall GAA

The President's entourage braved gale force winds to fly from the Phoenix Park in Dublin in two Chinook and two Black Hawk helicopters.

MS Isle of Inishmore

Isle of Inishmore began her career on Irish Ferries' Dublin-Holyhead route as the flagship of the company's fleet, replacing the 1995 built Isle of Innisfree.

MV Kerlogue

The British Naval Attaché in Dublin reported to the Director of Naval Intelligence that it was "unfortunate from a British point of view" that Fortune had been involved in the Kerlogue incident as he was "always ready to pass on any information in his possession".

Nicholas Barnewall, 1st Viscount Barnewall

The latter, returning to Ireland, was settled at Drimnagh, near Dublin, where his posterity remained until the reign of James I.

Peter Rodgers Organization

Stephen Rodgers personally holds the copyright to several films, including The Unearthly (1957) and Beginning of the End (1957) He also owns O’Kennedy’s Ireland, a documentary about President John F. Kennedy’s visit to his ancestral home of Dublin, Ireland, where the O'Kennedy dynasty began, only months prior to his assassination in 1963.

Seán Lane

He won the Leinster Under-21 Hurling Championship with Dublin as manager in 2007 and went on to appear in the All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship final for the first time for Dublin in 35 years.

Show of Strength Theatre Company

In three years they produced eleven play including two news works by Peter Nichols and the acclaimed The Wills' Girls by Amanda Whittington which was revived in 2003 and was also staged at the Dublin Fringe Festival.

Shrewsbury Road

Shrewsbury Road (Bóthar Shrewsbury in Irish) is a street in Dublin, Ireland and was the sixth-most-expensive street in the world in 2007, ahead of more well-known streets such as the Via Suvretta in St. Moritz and Carolwood Drive in Beverly Hills.

Sir John Newport, 1st Baronet

He took part in the convention of volunteer delegates which met in Dublin under the presidency of James Caulfeild, 1st Earl of Charlemont in November 1783, and was appointed a member of the committee of inquiry into the state of the borough representation in Ireland.

The Bells of Dublin

#"The Bells of Dublin/Christmas Eve" (with the bell-ringers of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin) (Paddy Moloney)

The Countess Cathleen

The play was first performed on May 8, 1899, as the Irish Literary Theatre's inaugural production, in the Antient Concert Rooms, Dublin.

The Radiators from Space

The band played, including with guest vocalist Gavin Friday and guitarist Brush Shiels, at a tribute concert for Chevron on August 24, 2013 at the Olympia Theatre (Dublin).

Thomas Bourke, 4th Baron Bourke of Connell

Thomas had been preceded as Baron Bourke of Castleconnell by his two elder brothers, John (who sat in parliament in Dublin in 1585 and was slain in battle at Hounslow, Middlesex on January 14, 1592, leaving no issue) and Richard (slain in battle by Dermot O'Connor Sligo at Ballynecargy, County Limerick on February 28, 1599, also leaving no issue).

Thomas Joseph Potter

He was Professor of Pulpit Eloquence and English Literature in All Hallows College, Dublin.

Traffic Blues

The series was filmed over six months, putting the Dublin Metropolitan division based in Dublin Castle, the Louth division taking in stations in Drogheda and Dundalk and the Donegal division focusing on Burnfoot and Letterkenny areas in the centre of attention.

Ubi Dwyer

He was said to have been asked by John Lennon to help set up a commune on an island which may have been related to the Island Commune that he ran on Merrion Road in Dublin in 1970.

Yann Goulet

He was commissioned to create public works commemorating the IRA and other republicans, including the Custom House Memorial (Dublin), the East Mayo Brigade IRA Memorial, the Republican Memorial (Crossmaglen), and the Ballyseedy Memorial (Kerry).

Young Labour League

It had the only stall at Liberty Hall, Dublin, at the Party's annual conference at which Brendan Corish announced that: "The Seventies will be Socialist".

Yvonne Farrell

Farrell has taught at University College Dublin since 1976 and has been visiting professor at the Architecture Academy in Mendrisio, Switzerland, since 2008.