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The Dublin diocesan cathedral of the Church of Ireland. This church was founded in 1038 by King Sitric Silkenbeard in the center of Viking Dublin. A part of the choir dates from the late twelfth century, and the nave was completed in the thirteenth. Damaged by a roof collapse in 1562, the cathedral was restored [...]
A Family of brewers. In 1756 Arthur Guinness (1725-1803) established a brewery in Leixlip, County Kildare, which he moved to Dublin in 1759. The business grew under his son Arthur (1767-1855) and grandson Benjamin (1798-1868), who developed export markets in the United States and Europe. Sir Benjamin’s sons, Arthur Edward (1840-1915), First Baron Ardilaun, and Edward Cecil (1847-1927), [...]
One of the three great collections of Old Irish poems , tales , histories , and genealogies of kings and saints. Housed in the Library of Trinity College , Dublin , the “Book of Leinster” was compiled or transcribed by a bishop of Kildare at the behest of Dermot MacMurroughs tutor in the mid twelfth century. Another [...]
This was an ancient battle fought by “Brian Boru” and the forces of Munster ….against the Vikings of Dublin, the Leinster Irish, and their Scandinavian allies. Traditionally seen as a struggle between the Irish and the Vikings , for sovereignty of Ireland, the battle was really the culmination of an internal struggle between Irish provincial rulers for the [...]
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The center of British authority in Ireland until 1922. It was built by King John of England in 1204. The original castle corresponded in extent with the present Upper Castle Yard , flanked on each corner by a great circular tower , beneath one of which , the Powder Tower , an earlier Viking fortification was excavated. Other [...]