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Dún Laoghaire is a suburban seaside town and county seat of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County, Ireland.
The town is situated some 12 kilometres south of Dublin city centre, and is a major port of entry from Britain.
The harbour, one of the largest in the country. A lighthouse is located at the end of the East Pier, while the new headquarters of the Commissioners of Irish Lights (the General Lighthouse Authority for Ireland) is located on Harbour Road.
Much of the town's early growth came from visitors from Dublin.
Dún Laoghaire has associations with many leading cultural figures, most notably James Joyce and Samuel Beckett. Joyce's stay with Oliver St. John Gogarty in a Martello Tower in nearby Sandycove he later immortalised in the opening chapter of Ulysses. Samuel Beckett came from nearby Foxrock and is said to have experienced an artistic epiphany, alluded to in his play Krapp's Last Tape, while sitting on the end of one of Dún Laoghaire's piers. A bronze plaque marks the spot.
The present town of Dún Laoghaire dates from the 1820's. An earlier town of Dunleary was located around the area where "The Purty Kitchen" pub is now located. Dunleary had a coffee house, and a small cove, both of which is shown on a number of old maps. It may have had a salt mine, and the name Salthill is close by. At that time, the area on which the town is currently located was a craggy, rocky pasture area with some quarries.
The events of the night of Nov 18/19 1807 were to lead eventually to the transformation of the area. On that night, two ships, the "Prince of Wales", and the "Rochdale", both of which had departed from Dublin, were driven on the rocks between Blackrock and Dunleary with the combined loss of over 400 lives. This disaster gave new impetus to an existing campaign for a new harbour to be constructed near Dublin. By 1816, the legislation was passed authorising the construction of what is now called the "West Pier". When King George IV came to visit the new port under construction, the name Dunleary was dropped, in favour of the name "Kingstown".
Some maps show the commencement of a small town centre along what is now Cumberland St, close to the junction with York Road, but from the 1820s the harbour brought new business to the area, and a new town centre began to form along Georges St. That street may originally have been laid out as a military road connecting the Dún Laoghaire Martello Towers, both of which have long disappeared. (One at the "Peoples Park", the other near near the end of the West Pier).
Ireland's first railway from Dublin to Kingstown opened for business in 1834, and terminated near the West Pier. It established Kingstown as a preferred suburb of Dublin, and led to the construction of elegant terraces. By 1844 the new-fangled "Atmospheric Train" (designed by Robert Mallet) connected Kingstown to Dalkey, leading to further development. The Atmospheric Train ceased in 1854, but was replaced by the extention of the railway, which was subsequently extended to the ferryport of Rosslare.
The main road to Dublin, through Monkstown Village and Blackrock was the sole road connection to the city of Dublin until 1932. In that year, the Eucharistic Congress, held in Dublin brought thousands of visitors to Dublin, and plans indicated that most of them would come through Dún Laoghaire. The road was considered inadequate, and a new coast road was created by connecting some short segments of road and closing some gardens. This road is now Seapoint Avenue. An agreement with the local residents to restore the area to pre-congress condition was never fulfilled.
There is an anchor, recovered from the wreck of the mailboat RMS Leinster which was torpedoed over the Kish Bank in 1918, with the loss of over 500 lives, located adjacent to the Carlile Pier, overlooked by the National Maritime Museum of Ireland.
Dún Laoghaire was once part of the borough of Dún Laoghaire, and remains the only town in Ireland to have its own Vocational Education Committee. It is considered part of the Greater Dublin Area.
Dún Laoghaire was hit by a stray German bomb during World War II, the bomb landing near the People's Park at Rosmeen Gardens. Damage from the bomb was limited to buildings.
Dublin is both the largest city and capital of Ireland. It is located near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the centre of the Dublin Region. Founded as a Viking settlement, the city has been Ireland's primary city for most of the island's history since medieval times. Today, it is an economic, administrative and cultural centre for the island of Ireland and has one of the fastest growing populations of any European capital city.
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