Dalkey

Dalkey (Irish Deilginis; German " Thorny Island" ) is a town in County Dun Laoghaire - Rathdown on the east coast of Ireland, south-east of Dublin. Until the administrative reorganization of the counties in the Republic of Ireland on 1 January 1994 belonged to Dalkey County Dublin; the Census 2006 8.405 inhabitants were determined.

Dalkey takes its name from directly upstream, now uninhabited Dalkey Iceland, about 16 km south of Dublin and 3 km south of the port of Dun Laoghaire. Add or at Dalkey There are several small ports; the fishing port near Bulloch Harbour Dalkey is the largest of them. There is also a seal sanctuary. Located in Dalkey harbor Coliemore Harbour is much smaller, but was once the main port for Dublin. Today in the ports boats to tourists for fishing and to visit the less than 300 meters off the coast of Dalkey Iceland ( with a Martello Tower ) are mainly rented out.

Dalkey was the birthplace of several well-known artists in the 20th century. In 1904, James Joyce was a teacher at the Clifton School in Dalkey; the then headmaster Francis Irwin was a model for the character of Mr. Deasy in Ulysses.

Today, many celebrities such as Chris de Burgh, Bono, The Edge, Enya, Van Morrison and Neil Jordan live in Dalkey or possession have acquired here, what led to the metaphor of Dalkey as Dublin's Beverly Hills.

Flann O'Brien's 1964 published novel from Dalkeys archives play in Dalkey.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Maeve Binchy (1940-2012), writer and columnist
• Sinéad Cusack ( born 1948 ), actress
• Margaret Hassan (1945-2004), director of CARE International in Iraq
• Hugh Leonard (1926-2009), playwright and journalist
• Barry McCrea ( born 1974 ), literary critic and writer ( grew up here )