Dublin carries two names in Irish — Baile Átha Cliath, ‘town of the hurdled ford’, and Dubhlinn, the ‘black pool’ on the River Liffey that gave the city its English name — after Viking longships first made landfall here in 841.
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Dublin carries two names in Irish — Baile Átha Cliath, ‘town of the hurdled ford’, and Dubhlinn, the ‘black pool’ on the River Liffey that gave the city its English name — after Viking longships first made landfall here in 841.
This is Ireland’s capital in every sense: seat of Dublin Castle and Trinity College, home to the Book of Kells, and the city whose General Post Office became the beating heart of the 1916 Rising.
