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John Millington Synge writer & dramatist lived here 1890 - 1906
31 Crosthwaite Park West, Dún Laoghaire, Dublin, Ireland
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In No 7 Hoey's Court (now demolished) about 100 feet NW of this spot it is reputed that Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, was born on the 30th day of Novr. 1667 He died on the 19th day of Octr. 1745
near Dublin Castle, Dublin, Ireland
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Robert Emmet arrested 25 August 1803 here in Palmer's House while hiding as a lodger under the assumed name of Hewitt after the aborted uprising
Harold's Cross Road, Dublin, Ireland
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Here as he walked by on the 16th of October 1843 Sir William Rowan Hamilton in a flash of genius discovered the fundamental formula for quaternion multiplication i² = j² = k² = ijk = −1 & cut it on a stone of this bridge.
Broom Bridge, Broombridge Road, Dublin, Ireland
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Quaker educationalist Anne Jellicoe 1823-1880 founded here in 1861 The Queen's Technical Training Institute for Women
Buswell's Hotel, 25, Molesworth Street, , Dublin, Ireland
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Veronica Guerin was assassinated close to this site on June 26th 1996. May we always remember her for her courage. Honoured by South Dublin County Council and the Sunday Independent. An bheis dé go raibh a h'anam dílis solas dé inár measc
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Newlands Cross, Naas Rd, Dublin, Ireland
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Constance Countess Markievicz lay in State in this Pillar Room of the Rotunda Hospital on 16 July 1927. Tens of thousands of people filed past the remains of one known as "The Lover of the Poor" She was interred in Glasnevin Cemetery.
Pillar Room, Rotunda Hospital, Parnell Street, Dublin, Ireland
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1779 The birthplace of Thomas Moore, Ireland's lyric poet. Reconstructed in 1963
12 Aungier St, Dublin, Ireland
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Michael Mallin [full inscription unknown]
Emmet Hall, 122 Emmet Road, Inchicore, Dublin, Ireland
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John Giles Irish international footballer was born and raised in Ormond Square
Ormond Square, Dublin, Ireland
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Temple Street Children's University Hospital first started as a charitable infirmary here on 7th November 1872
9 Upper Buckingham Street, Dublin, Ireland
Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989) Writer and Nobel Laureate was born and mainly lived in Cooldrinagh, Kerrymount Avenue, Foxrock until 1927. This area insporied the settings for many of his works including Molloy, Watt, All That Fall and Company.
Brighton Road, Foxrock Viullage,, Dublin, Ireland
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Railway Dtation Architect Sancton Wood 1816 - 1886 Heuston Station Main Building 1886
Heuston Station, Dublin, Ireland
Sir Jonah Barrington 1760 - 1834 memoir writer lived here
15 Harcourt St Dublin 2, Dublin, Ireland
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Civil & Structural Engineer First Professor of Engineering, T.C.D. John B. MacNeil F.R.S. 1793 - 1880 Dublin - Cork Railway 1844 - 1855, Heuston Station Concourse Roof 1848.
Heuston Station , Dublin, Ireland
Mhair and Chairdinéal John Henry Newman Diagaí, Scoláire agus céad Reachtaire ar Ollscoil Chaitlicheach na hÉireann anseo - 1854 go 1858 Cardinal John Henry Newman Theologian, Scholar and First Rector of the Catholic University of Ireland lived here 1854 - 1858
16 Harcourt St, Dublin 2, Dublin, Ireland
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St. Patrick's House of the Catholic university University College 1854-1909. John Henry Newman, Rector 1852-59, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Professor of Greek 1884-89, James Augustine Joyce, student 1899-1902
Merrion Square South, Dublin, Ireland
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Surgeon and Radiologist Dr Walter C. Stevenson 1877 - 1931 Lived Here 1910 - 1931 Pioneer in Radiation Oncology
60 Lwr Baggott St,, Dublin 2, Dublin, Ireland
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Francis Bacon 1909 - 1992 artist was born in this house on 28 October 1909
63 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin, Ireland
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Catherine McAuley Woman of Mercy Built this house and lived here 1827 - 1841
Mercy International Centre, Baggot St Lwr, Dublin 2, Dublin, Ireland
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Clonmell House home of The Municipal Gallery of Modern Art 1908 - 1932 founded by Sir Hugh Lane
17 Harourt St, Dublin 2, Dublin, Ireland
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In memory of Sean Healy Na. Fianna Eireann aged 15 years. Mortally wounded by British Forces at this spot during the Easter Rising April 1916
Doyle's Corner, Phibsborough, Dublin, Ireland
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Lord Edward Carson 1854-1935 politician and lawyer born here 1854
4 Harcourt Street, Dublin, Ireland
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Society of United Irishmen of Dublin founded 9th November 1791 at The Eagle Tavern on this site
Quaker Meeting House, Eustace Street, Dublin, Ireland
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The first meeting of the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland was held on premises on this site on 9th April 1798
59 Dawson Street, Dublin, Ireland
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Senator William Butler Yeats 1965 - 1939 poet & playwright lived here 1922 - 1928
82 Merrion Square, Dublin, Ireland
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George William Russell AE 1867-1935 poet, mystic, painter, co-operator worked here
Plunkett House, 84 Merrion Square, Dublin, Ireland
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The Ormond Hotel is the setting for the episode The Sirens in Joyce's Ulysses
Ormond Hotel, Ormond Quay, Dublin, Ireland
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Here in Joyce's imagination was born in May 1866 Leopold Bloom. Citizen, husband, father, wanderer, reincarnation of Ulysses
52 Upper Clanbrassil Street, Portobello, Dublin, Ireland
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Éirí Amach na Cásca 1916: Ceanncheathrú Arm Cathartha Na Héireann Seachtainn Na Cásca. Headquarters, Irish Citizen Army during Easter Week
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Royal College of Surgeons, 123 St Stephen's Green, Dublin, Ireland
I gcuimhne ar na fir agus mná a glac páirti in Eiri Amach na Cáscá. Annesley Bridge. In memory of the men and women who took part in the Easter Rising. Eiri Amach Na Cáscá 1916.
70 North Strand Road, Dublin 3, D03 K8P4, Dublin, Ireland
Robert Tressell born Robert Noonan socialist, painter signwriter and author of "The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists" 18th April 1870 - 3rd February 1911
37 Wexford Street, Dublin 2, Dublin, Ireland
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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1814 - 1873 writer lived here
69 Merrion Square South, Dublin, Ireland
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Doctor Thomas Wrigley Grimshaw 1839-1900 physician and philanthropist lived on this site 1861-1881
Frederick Buildings, Molesworth Street, Dublin, Ireland