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Finley's Irish bar & Grill
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36) There is a fountain in College Green with some ghastly statues of angels. This stands on the spot where there was once a statue of King Billy on a horse. It was blown up six times before being completely destroyed by a bomb in 1946. The wreck was taken to a corporation yard and the horses huge lead testicles were melted down and used to repair a pipe.

37) St Michan's Church was called after St Michan and St Stephen's Green was called after St Stephen.

 

38) Montgomery Street was once the biggest red-light district in Europe with an estimated 1600 prostitutes. It was known locally as the "Monto" and this is the origin of the song "Take me up to Monto"

39) Dublin boasts more homosexuals per capita than San Francisco.

 

40) Henry Moore, Earl of Drogheda lived in Dublin in the eighteenth century. His job was naming streets. He called several after himself. Henry Street, Moore Street, Earl Street, Drogheda Street. Drogheda Street later became Sackville Street and is now O'Connell Street. He didn't like to see the 'of' from his name left out so when he was naming a small lane (off O'Connell Street) he called it "Of Lane" (it's gone now).

41) Nelson's Pillar was blown up in 1966 to mark the fiftieth annivarsary of the 1916 rising. It now lies in a heap in a valley in County Wicklow.

 

42) Leinster House in Dublin was originally built as a private home for the Duke of Leinster. At that time, the most fashionable part of Dublin was the North Side and he was asked why he was building on the South Side. He said "Where I go, fashion follows me.!" ..... and to this day the most fashionable part of Dublin is the South Side.

43) Tallaght is one of the oldest placenames in Ireland and it means "The Plague Cemetery"

 
 


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