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Dublin History
Dublin has become a favourite amongst weekend revellers, particularly those in pursuit of a good Hen or Stag party. Without a doubt, the main reasons why people visit is for the warmth of the Irish and the Guinness.
Having embraced Europe so thoroughly, Dublin has grown from a middle class city to a bustling cosmopolitan hub in only 20 years.
As the capital of the Celtic Tiger economy, Dublin now houses many of Europes leading investment banks and technology centres.
Dublin lies on the east coast of Ireland bounded to the north by the Howth hills and to the south by the Dalkey headland. The city is split by the river Liffey.
The first early Celtic habitation was beside the River Liffey and the city's Irish name, Baile Atha Cliath (the Town of the Hurdle Ford) comes from an ancient river crossing that can still be pinpointed today.
By the 9th century, Viking raids had become a fact of Irish life, but some of the Danes chose to stay. They intermarried with the Irish and established a vigorous trading port where the River Poddle joined the Liffey in a black pool - or dubh linn. Since that time Dublin and Ireland has experienced a turbulent history including Oliver Cromwell’s conquering of the city, and the 18th-century boom years when Dublin became the British Empire's second city, after London.
The Act of Union, which came into effect on January 1, 1801, created the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and ended the separate Irish Parliament, whose members moved to the British Parliament at Westminster.
In the late 1840s Ireland was struck by its greatest disaster - the Potato Famine. Although Dublin escaped the worst effects the streets and squares were still packed with refugees trying to escape from the countryside.
In 1905 the political movement Sinn Fein was established and the general election of 1918 saw republican Sinn Fein candidates win nearly three-quarters of the Irish parliamentary seats.
Instead of attending at Westminster, they declared Ireland independent, forming the first Dail Eireann - the Irish assembly. After various violent events a truce was signed on July 11, 1921 followed by the Anglo-Irish Treaty, creating the Irish Free State - on December 6, 1921. The government declared the Free State to be a republic and Ireland left the British Commonwealth in 1949.
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