As revealed in great detail at the Dublinia museum beside Christ Church, the remains of dozens of warriors have been excavated at a major ninth century Norse Viking base (or longphort) at Islandbridge, complete with swords, spears, shields and other artefacts. The first glimpse of humanity is a fish-trap plucked out by archaeologists a few years ago somebody popped it into the Liffey by Victoria Quay about 2,200 years ago.Įarly Christians are hinted at from St John’s Well near IMMA but it’s inevitably the Vikings who made the first significant mark.
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In 1923, the new Free State government not only painted all the post boxes green but also formally adopted the district codes.Īs such, Dublin 8's catchment area also takes in Dolphin's Barn, Inchicore, Kilmainham, Merchants Quay, Portobello, South Circular Road, the Coombe and the Liberties. With the city still smouldering after the Easter Rising, nobody was about to disrupt the Viceroy’s postal service so it was agreed that Phoenix Park and Islandbridge would be included within Dublin 8. The Viceroy, ensconced at the Vice-Regal Lodge (now Áras) in Phoenix Park, immediately became the new office’s most prestigious client.ĭublin 8 was born quarter of a century later when the Post Office introduced new postal districts to make life easier for the sorters and postal workers.
This curious glitch harks back to 1892 when a spanking new post and sorting office opened on James’s Street on the southside. It also has Goldenbridge, Ireland's first non-denominational cemetery, as well as Dublin's oldest graveyard at Bully's Acre, beside IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art), and one of the largest Viking burial complexes in western Europe at Kilmainham-Islandbridge.Īrchitectural enthusiasts will note that the Guinness Storehouse was the first multi-storey steel-framed building constructed in Ireland, while art lovers have IMMA, as well as the National College of Art and Design (NCAD), Ireland's oldest art institution, on Thomas Street.ĭublin 8 bucks the mythical mantra that even numbered postal districts are southside and odd ones are northĪs may have been inferred from the above, Dublin 8 spans the Liffey and so bucks the mythical mantra that even numbered postal districts are southside and odd ones are north.
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