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The Hellfire Club, Dublin Mountains The notorious Hellfire Club was founded in Athy, Co. Kildare in the 1730s by young bucks(adult sons of the nobility and the officer corps with...

The first Coombe Maternity Hospital was built in the Liberties...

The Museum of Archaeology is probably one of the most...

The first Norman Archbishop of Dublin (elected 1181), John Comyn,...

In 1892 Dublin City Council erected the Fruit & Vegetable...

The Royal Hospital in Kilmainham was built between 1680-84 as...

John McCurdy designed the Shelbourne Hotel but also designed another,...

Dublin’s most iconic bridge over the River Liffey is the...

Marsh’s Library was opened in 1701 by Archbishop of Dublin,...

An architectural competition was announced in 1768 by the Merchants...

At a time when men wore swords as a personal...

Dublin’s first theatre opened on Werburgh Street in 1637 but...

Underneath Christ Church is the crypt, the oldest surviving structure...

The modern representation of the city’s coat of arms (or...

These Scandinavian adventurers, pirates and eventually, colonists, were certainly pagan...

The famous Guinness brewery was first established in Dublin in...

Believed to be Dublin’s oldest pub, this building may go...

When Trinity College first opened its doors in 1592 the...

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