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This military expedition marks the beginning of England’s claim of sovereignty over Ireland. English influence on the island fluctuates considerably during the Middle Ages, but is often restricted to a small area around Dublin, known as the ‘Pale’.
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Dublin had never had an industrial revolution like most British cities, or even Belfast, but still according to the census of 1911 employed 73,000 manual workers. The docks were crowded with ships exporting and importing. The Anglo-American Oil Company had built large storage tanks on the docks in 1897 and the Great Southern and Western railway bui...
In the eighteenth century Dublin had been a Protestant city, but due to rural migration Catholics had become the majority by the early 19thcentury. Catholic nationalists, first O’Connellite ‘Repealers’ and later Parnellite ‘Home Rulers’ had taken over control of the city’s Corporation as far back as the 1840s when the voting system was reformed to ...
In response to nationalists political advances, many Protestant and unionists had moved out of the city proper and set up their own autonomous townships at places like Rathmines and Pembroke. Later their children moved further out of the city again to the ‘railway townships’ of Kingstown, Blackrock, Dalkey and Killiney. Dublin Corporation only mana...
‘At the bottom of the heap’, Todd Andrews thought, were the inhabitants of the slums who were ‘seldom above the poverty line and many of them far below it’. According to Andrews, they ‘supplied the rank and file of the [British regiment] Dublin Fusiliers’ and found their only entertainment in the pubs or on the terraces of the city’s football (socc...
In 1922, for the first time since the Act of Union in 1801, Dublin was again on the brink of becoming a capital city. Its last period as the political centre of Ireland had seen the construction of most of its grandest buildings – the Four Courts, the Custom House, the Parliament building (now the Bank of Ireland) and City Hall with their distincti...
Joseph Brady, Dublin at the Turn of the Century in Dublin Through Space and Time, P256 Brady p 303-312 Hill, Jacqueline. The Protestant Response to Repeal, the case of the Dublin working class in Ireland Under the Union(Lyons and Hawkins eds), Clarendon 1980. pp.45-46 See Lee, Joseph, The Modernisation of Irish Society. Irish Times Thursday, July 1...
Dublin Castle was the centre of the government of Ireland under English and later British rule. "Dublin Castle" is used metonymically to describe British rule in Ireland. The Castle held only the executive branch of government and the Privy Council of Ireland, both appointed by the British government.
Thereafter, the British governed Ireland through a viceroy and an administration based in Dublin Castle, which controlled the civil service, the legal system, the military, and the police.
Mar 19, 2005 · Dublin Castle was at the heart of British rule in Ireland for 800 years, but the natives are coming around, writes Eileen Battersby. On August 30th, 1204, King John of England issued the...
The most notorious events of the War of Independence in Dublin came on ‘Bloody Sunday’, 21 November 1920 when the IRA killed numerous British officers (along with some civilians) at their...
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During that time, it served principally as a residence for the British monarch’s Irish representative, the Viceroy of Ireland, and as a ceremonial and administrative centre. The Castle was originally developed as a medieval fortress under the orders of King John of England.
