What is the most interesting fact about Dublin that you didn't know?

Davarus Walrus · 01-05-2014 02:26PM

There was a language called Fingallian spoken in parts of North County Dublin. It was considered extinct by the mid-19th century.

The word Mullacking was a Fingallian work meaning to walk or work in mud. The word mullagh is now used by some 'real Dubs' to describe sons and daughters of the soil.

kinsy · 01-05-2014 02:27PM

minotour wrote: »

Just thought of one, there's supposedly an abandoned niteclub on the top floor of Bus Aras.

That's true, it's the canteen now. I saw it during Open House weekend a couple of years ago.

keano_afc · 01-05-2014 02:28PM

The Rotunda Hospital in Dublin was the first maternity hospital in Europe

The Oscar statuette was designed by a Dubliner - Cedric Gibbons

Dublin’s oldest traffic lights are situated beside the Renault garage in Clontarf. The lights, which are still in full working order, were installed in 1893 outside the home of Fergus Mitchell who was the owner of the first car in Ireland.

py2006 · 01-05-2014 02:29PM

A lot of people Googling on here haha

diograis · 01-05-2014 02:29PM

sabat wrote: »

He even had a street off Moore St named "Of Lane."

An interesting fact about Dublin is that if you removed its economy from the rest of Ireland, our country cousins would have similar living standards to Eastern Europe and other developing regions of the world.

cork = eastern europe?

I better have told all those business people in work yesterday they're fooling no one

py2006 · 01-05-2014 02:30PM

They used to charge a Ha'penny the cross the Ha'penny bridge, with toll booths at each end. It was the fee the used to charge for boats to travel past it beforehand too.

eviltwin · 01-05-2014 02:31PM

Central park in NY is modelled on St Stephens Green

py2006 · 01-05-2014 02:34PM

eviltwin wrote: »

Central park in NY is modelled on St Stephens Green

no

weldoninhio · 01-05-2014 02:39PM

The custom house was built back to front and when the designer realised he killed himself.

py2006 · 01-05-2014 02:40PM

A large section of the north side of the Liffey was known as Oxmanstown.

kowloon · 01-05-2014 02:41PM

minotour wrote: »

Ive been gazumped by an even bigger buzz killington. Good thing i didn't make my comment in 1908 or you would have had a point ......or perhaps you are a regular visitor to the flagsinstitute site?

If you're going to be pedantic you may as well get it right. You corrected someone's post and were in turn corrected, now you're getting pissy about it?

Sadderday · 01-05-2014 02:42PM

Guinness owned loads of property on james's street, the liberties... most of Dublin 8 and back in the day most of the Guinness employee's were the ones living in them so Guinness ensured there were baths in every home... so their staff would always arrive to work clean,

Could be BS, the Dublin aulfella's talk shi'te after a few gargles

py2006 · 01-05-2014 02:49PM

This monument, called the Long Stone, once stood on its on little island out in the Liffey. In fact most of the area surround it was the Liffey until they built directly on it.

tricky D · 01-05-2014 02:54PM

py2006 wrote: »

This monument, called the Long Stone, once stood on its on little island out in the Liffey. In fact most of the area surround it was the Liffey until they built directly on it.

aka Steyne Stone. Current version commissioned in 1986

https://1f19be030965d7aa9cd5-0ea8ebfb2bc7a6161d6ab1bbbbe2306e.ssl.cf3.rackcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Factsheet-The-Steine-Sculpture.pdf

KingOfFairview · 01-05-2014 02:55PM

The Long Stone is the newest pub in Europe.

Gloomtastic! · 01-05-2014 02:57PM

All the land in Dublin, from Capel Street to the coast, is man made.

There used to be a lepar colony on an island off the coast of Clontarf.

More people are buried in Glasnevin Cemetary than currently live in Dublin - 1,500,000+

KingOfFairview · 01-05-2014 02:58PM

Howth Head was an island until 1954.

yabadabado · 01-05-2014 02:59PM

minotour wrote: »

Just thought of one, there's supposedly an abandoned niteclub on the top floor of Bus Aras.

kinsy wrote: »

That's true, it's the canteen now. I saw it during Open House weekend a couple of years ago.

afaik it was never a niteclub but there is an abandoned theater in the basement of Busaras/social welfare building.

py2006 · 01-05-2014 03:01PM

tricky D wrote: »

aka Steyne Stone. Current version commissioned in 1986

https://1f19be030965d7aa9cd5-0ea8ebfb2bc7a6161d6ab1bbbbe2306e.ssl.cf3.rackcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Factsheet-The-Steine-Sculpture.pdf

The image on page 3 here shows it clearly.

fleet_admiral · 01-05-2014 03:05PM

minotour wrote: »

Just thought of one, there's supposedly an abandoned niteclub on the top floor of Bus Aras.

there is a theater (the ablana) underneath busaras and apparently a cinema as well as the night club

there is a garden on top of the gpo

can people name the 5 places in dublin that end in 'o'?

pimlico

marino

rialto

portobello

phibsboro

and the one place that ends in 2 o's?

topper75 · 01-05-2014 03:05PM

Nerdlingr wrote: »

The Grand Canal runs all the way to the Shannon.

Sits more than runs - but I take your point. Enters the broad majestic Shannon at Shannon Harbour.

My Darlin Jewellin Dubalin factoid: Bishop Marsh's ghost still haunts his library near St.Patrick's Cathedral.

Oh and ah - what should one do upon arriving at these Five Lamps you speak of oh noble citydwellers?

py2006 · 01-05-2014 03:05PM

There was an island on the Quays called Usher's Island before the liffey was narrowed. Hence we have Usher's Quay now.

Turtyturd · 01-05-2014 03:07PM

fleet_admiral wrote: »

there is a theater (the ablana) underneath busaras and apparently a cinema as well as the night club

there is a garden on top of the gpo

can people name the 5 places in dublin that end in 'o'?
pimlico

marino

rialto

portobello

phibsboro

and the one place that ends in 2 o's?

Dublin Zoo.

runawaybishop · 01-05-2014 03:10PM

realies wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Park

Phoenix Park (Irish: Páirc an Fhionnuisce[1]) is an urban park in Dublin, Ireland, lying 2–4 km west of the city centre, north of the River Liffey. Its 11 km perimeter wall encloses 707 hectares (1,750 acres), one of the largest walled city parks in Europe.[2][3][4] It includes large areas of grassland and tree-lined avenues, and since the seventeenth century has been home to a herd of wild Fallow deer. The English name comes from the Irish fionn uisce meaning "clear water".[5] The Irish Government is lobbying UNESCO to have the park designated as a world heritage site.[6]

One of but not the the largest, even though you'll still see it being claimed as the largest walled park in Europe. Richmond park is bigger.

fleet_admiral · 01-05-2014 03:13PM

Turtyturd wrote: »

Dublin Zoo.

the azoo:D

quadrifoglio verde · 01-05-2014 03:14PM

fleet_admiral wrote: »

there is a theater (the ablana) underneath busaras and apparently a cinema as well as the night club

there is a garden on top of the gpo

can people name the 5 places in dublin that end in 'o'?
pimlico

marino

rialto

portobello

phibsboro

and the one place that ends in 2 o's?

Skidoo

Ash.J.Williams · 01-05-2014 03:20PM

Tallaght means "plague grave"

Ash.J.Williams · 01-05-2014 03:22PM

fleet_admiral wrote: »

there is a theater (the ablana) underneath busaras and apparently a cinema as well as the night club

there is a garden on top of the gpo

can people name the 5 places in dublin that end in 'o'?
pimlico

marino

rialto

portobello

phibsboro

and the one place that ends in 2 o's?

I googled ablana and it means eating cheese out of a large lady's pants

harry Bailey esq · 01-05-2014 03:27PM

everlast75 wrote: »

The thread is not a paradox. The OP asked "What is the most interesting fact about Dublin that you didn't know?". Didn't implies past tense, and that you know one now.

Anyhoo - here's one for you. O'Connell Bridge is the same width as it is in length.

its actually wider than it is long

SuperGrover · 01-05-2014 03:29PM

Eblana, not Ablana...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eblana_Theatre

What is the most interesting fact about Dublin that you didn't know?

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