Dublin ( /ˈdʌblɨn/; locally /ˈdʊbᵊlən/; Irish: Baile Átha Cliath, meaning "town of the hurdled ford", or Áth Cliath, occasionally Duibhlinn) is the capital and most populous city of Ireland. The English name for the city is derived from the Irish name Dubhlinn, meaning "black pool". Dublin is situated near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and the centre of the Dublin Region.
Originally founded as a Viking settlement, it evolved into the Kingdom of Dublin and became the island's principal city following the Norman invasion. The city expanded rapidly from the 17th century; it was briefly the second largest city in the British Empire and the fifth largest in Europe. Dublin entered a period of stagnation following the Act of Union of 1800, but it remained the economic centre for most of the island. Following the partition of Ireland in 1922, the new parliament, the Oireachtas, was located in Leinster House. Dublin became the capital of the Irish Free State and later the Republic of Ireland.
Similar to the cities of Cork, Limerick, Galway, and Waterford—Dublin is administered separately from its respective County with its own City Council. The city is listed by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) as a global city, with a ranking of "Alpha-", placing Dublin among the top 30 cities in the world. It is a historical and contemporary cultural centre for the country, as well as a modern centre of education, the arts, administration, economy, and industry.
Read more about Dublin: Economy, Education, Demographics, Irish Language, Twinning
Other articles related to "dublin":
... from densely-populated suburban areas of the contiguous Dublin metropolitan to remote rural villages and almost-unpopulated agricultural townlands ... peninsula was historically distinct from the plains of Fingal), were transferred from the city of Dublin in a somewhat controversial move ... of Meath now with a heavily built-up hinterland, crosses the boundary between the old County of Dublin and County Meath, while Ongar is an adjacent ...
... to a settlement in Ireland called Eblana is in fact the earliest reference to Dublin, this would seem to give Dublin a just claim to nearly two thousand years of antiquity, as the settlement ... (Black Pool), from which the modern English language name Dublin derives ... There are several problems with this theory The earliest Gaelic settlement on the site of Dublin is referred to in local sources as Áth Cliath ("Ford of Hurdles") ...
... In 1946 he began studying at Trinity College, Dublin, but left before taking a degree ... He was first published in the Dublin literary periodical, Envoy ... on a fellow American emigrant to Dublin, Gainor Crist ...
... It was established at the same time that Dublin County Council and the Corporation of Dún Laoghaire were abolished in 1994, by an Act of the Oireachtas, the Local Government (Dublin) Act, 1993 ... It is one of four councils in the Dublin Region ... ireann, the county is divided into Dublin North and Dublin West, with Malahide and Howth situated in the constituency of Dublin North–East and small ...
... Dargan designed and built Ireland's first railway line from Dublin to Dún Laoghaire in 1833 ... He was a member of the Royal Dublin Society and also helped establish the National Gallery of Ireland ... He was also responsible for the Great Dublin Exhibition held at Leinster lawn in 1853 ...