Dún Laoghaire

Province

Dún Laoghaire [ du ː ː r ʲ ə n ɫe ] - Dun Liery speaking - is an Irish harbor town with 24,507 inhabitants ( 2011), which lies about 10 km south of Dublin.

The city, which was called from 1821 to 1921 Kingstown, is the administrative center of County Dun Laoghaire - Rathdown. Local attractions include the National Maritime Museum of Ireland, the James Joyce Tower and the harbor promenade on the East Pier.

The port of Dún Laoghaire has a high importance for import and export of Ireland: The Irish Irish Ferries offers a daily ferry service with the Ulysses to Holyhead on Anglesey in Wales.

There are twinned with Brest Ynys Môn and ( Anglesey ) in Wales.

History

The place goes to a Dun, a walled space, back to the mythical Irish King Laoghaire, (English King Lear ), in the 5th century einrichtete. The English name was Dunleary, which corresponds phonetically about the pronunciation of again renamed today's Irish place name. King George IV of England named Dún Laoghaire in honor of his visit in 1821 in Kingstown to. It developed into a posh suburb of Dublin. Here resided the Ascendancy, the English upper class, which had converted the coastal town to an elegant seaside resort with luxurious villas. The dolmen of Brenanstown (also Glendruid or Druids altar called ) lies in a valley, near the Brenanstown Road, in the valley of Glen Druid, about 1.7 km south of Cabinteely

James Joyce Tower

The James Joyce Tower Sandycove in the district is arguably the most famous Martello Tower on the Irish coast. He was, like all other towers this kind, built in 1804, modeled after the Corsican Genoese towers. Fame the tower by the writer James Joyce, who in 1904 lived here for a week at the medical student Oliver St John Gogarty. The events in the tower processed Joyce 's novel Ulysses, and let the day's journey of the hero Stephen Dedalus start here. The tower houses since 1962, a Joyce Museum. Below the tower is the legendary Forty Foot bathing place with its rock-hewn steps leading into the Irish Sea. Originally, "for gentlemen only" reported Forty Foot as nude bathing place. Will now, however, at the nudist duty no longer strictly maintained. The Bloomsday is celebrated in several places of the city.

Sons and daughters of the town

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