About Dublin - Know Your City Centre
Get to Know Your City Centre?
- Past students of Dublin's Trinity College include Oscar Wilde and Bram Stoker (creator of Dracula)!
- Merrion Square housed the famous Oscar Wilde, Daniel O'Connell and WB Yeats.
- Dublin's O'Connell Bridge was originally called Carlisle Bridge. The second O'Connell Bridge in the city is the little stone bridge over the lake in St. Stephen's Green!
- Saint Valentine, after whom Valentine's Day is named, was martyred in Rome on February 28th eighteen centuries ago. He was the Bishop of Terni. His remains are in a cask in White Friar Street Church, Dublin. He is no longer recognised as a Saint by the Vatican.
- There is an air raid shelter underground in Merrion Square Park
- Merrion Square is not a square at all. Its length is almost double its width!
- 90% of the trees in Merrion Square are evergreens.
- The district in which Grafton Street was built in the late 17th century was once quaintly called the lands of 'Tib and Tom', whoever they were!
- The clock in St. Stephen's Green Shopping Centre is the largest in Ireland and is even larger than the face of Westminster's Big Ben!
- The name 'Henry' Street is the result of one individual's idea of ensuring immortality! The developer of the area was Henry Moore, Earl of Drogheda. He gave the following streets his name: Henry Street, Moore Street, North Earl Street and Drogheda Street, now O'Connell Street!