It was destroyed in the s. In St Marys Protestant Cathedral was built. However, in the Dublin fair, which had been held in Dublin each year since the 13th century, was stopped. Gradually during the s conditions in Dublin improved. In a gasworks was built in Dublin and gas was used to light the streets from The first electric lights in Dublin were switched on in but electric light was a rare novelty until the early 20th century. In the early 19th century sewers were laid but only in the middle-class districts of Dublin poor areas could not pay the necessary rates.
But the sewers were extended in the s, s, and s. The railway reached Dublin in when a line to Kingsbridge was built. Horse-drawn buses began running in Dublin in They were followed by horse-drawn trams in From there were workhouses in Dublin where the destitute were fed and housed.
During the potato famine, they were overwhelmed by the numbers fleeing starvation in the countryside. Soup kitchens had to be set up in the streets to try and feed them. Although the population of Ireland fell sharply after the famine the population of Dublin actually rose because of the number of starving people fleeing to the city. Amenities in Dublin greatly improved in the 19th Century. In an industrial exhibition was held in Dublin on Leinster Lawn.
Zoological Gardens opened in Phoenix Park in Portobello Gardens opened as a park in A Natural History Museum opened in The National Gallery of Ireland opened in The Gaiety Theatre opened in The National Museum of Ireland opened in The Catholic University in Dublin was founded in Catholics were allowed to attend Trinity College after but the Catholic Church disapproved of Catholics going there. Glasnevin Catholic cemetery opened in In a new fruit and vegetable market opened and in a new fish market opened.
On 24 April the Easter Rising took place in Dublin. However, the British crushed the rebellion, and the insurgents surrendered on 29 April. The British then tried the insurgents and 15 of them were executed. Public opinion in Ireland was appalled and alienated by the executions. However, conditions in Dublin continued to improve during the 20th century.
A new network of sewers was built in Dublin in Butt Bridge was built in Talbot Memorial bridge was built in and Frank Sherwin Memorial bridge in East Link toll bridge was built in In the early s, a ring road was built around Dublin. Meanwhile in Abbey Theatre was built. Gate Theatre followed in It was an exhibition of industrial and commercial goods.
However, in the early 20th century there was still appalling poverty in Dublin with perhaps a quarter of families living in one room. In slum demolition began when houses north of the Liffey were demolished and replaced with proper houses. Slum clearance on a large scale began in the s and continued through the s and s.
In the Old Dublin Society was formed. In May the Germans bombed Dublin killing 28 people. Dublin Civic Museum opened in In the James Joyce Museum opened. In a Remembrance Garden was opened for all those who died in the fight for independence and the Friends of Medieval Dublin was founded in In the s and s redevelopment of the city center took place, some of it controversial as it involved the demolition of fine old buildings. In the late 20th century the population of the city center fell as areas of slum housing were demolished and replaced by new estates on the outskirts of the city but in the s new apartments were built in the city center.
In the late 20th century traditional industries such as textiles, brewing, and distilling declined but the city council built new industrial estates on the outskirts of the city and new industries like electronics, chemicals, and engineering appeared.
In the Dublin Institute of Higher Education was formed. In it was made Dublin City University. In Dublin celebrated its millennium. Dublin was actually founded in but in the year , an Irish king forced the townspeople to pay taxes to him. That year marks the beginning of Dublin as an Irish town. In a Jewish Museum opened in Dublin. Stems, keels and nailed ship's planks, are the main parts of ships to have survived from the Viking Age levels at Dublin.
So profound was the influence of Scandinavian ship-building in Ireland that many of the words in Irish for ships and their parts appear to be loan words borrowed from Old Norse. Although Dublin began as a slaving emporium through which slaves who had been mainly collected at monasteries were shipped out to the wider Scandinavian world, it developed into the most important trading town in the western Viking world.
Indeed the Irish Sea area could be regarded as a Dublin lake by the early eleventh century when Dublin's commercial contacts were at their height. It was in this context that the Skuldelev 2 ship operated. Clarke, H. Ireland and Scandinavia in the Early Viking Age.
Wallace, P. Treasures of the National Museum of Ireland. This website uses cookies. Those have two functions: On the one hand they are providing basic functionality for this website. On the other hand they allow us to improve our content for you by saving and analyzing anonymized user data.
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Back in the fourth century, the first known settlement here was built in the Cornmarket area of the city centre. Since then, the city has seen many different settlers and undergone many changes. This is where the Vikings eventually arrived in the year As a result, it was extensively populated by settlers from England and Wales.
This also brought about a revolution in landholding in the city. But this was handed over to the crown when the king introduced new laws. By the end of the 17th century, Dublin was ruled by the new Protestant English minority and became the capital of the Kingdom of Ireland. In order to exert more control over the Catholic majority living here, oppressive Penal Laws were vigorously implemented during the Georgian Period.
By , Dublin was the second largest city in the British Empire as the population reached 60, As a result, the city slowly became more distinctly middle class and mercantile. The old parliament building was sold to the Bank of Ireland, which remains on College Green to this day. Smaller houses were also constructed to accommodate the likes of merchants, doctors, lawyers and bankers.
They generally lived in the Victorian suburbs, while the city centre was a place for business and home to the poor. The politics of 19th-century Ireland were characterised by constitutional, social and revolutionary struggle. These led to the establishment of a settlement on the southside of the mouth of the Liffey, named Dubh Linn Black Pool after the lake where the Danes first moored their boats. Despite stone fortifications, Dublin town was sacked many times over the next two centuries but always recovered.
By the 11th Century, Dublin prospered, mainly due to close trading links with the English towns of Chester and Bristol and soon became the most important town in Ireland with a population of about 4, However, the king of England, afraid Strongbow might become too powerful, pronounced himself Lord of Ireland and gave Dublin to the merchants of Bristol. Dublin was devastated by fire in and a stone fortress built sometime in the 13th century.
The first mayor was appointed in Following this, the city grew fast and had a population of 8, by the end of the 13th century, prospering as a trade centre, despite an attack by the Scots in From the 14th to 18th centuries, Dublin was incorporated into the English Crown as The Pale and, for a time, became the second city of the British Empire.
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