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Index of An Historical Guide to the City of Dublin.

An Historical Guide to the City of Dublin, Illustrated by engravings, and a plan of the city Second Edition, with corrections and additional articles, also an Itinerary and various useful information for Tourists and Strangers. By G. N. Wright, A. M. London: Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy. 1825.

Introduction to An Historical Guide

Preface to the Second Edition. Although reduced in bulk, by a compressed form of printing, for the purpose of enabling the publishers to off...

Roman Catholic Churches

Roman Catholic Chapels

Getting to Dublin - Hotels.

Packets to Dublin. STEAM-PACKETS from LIVERPOOL, viz. The city of Dublin Steam-Packet Company Office, No. 18 Water-street; the St. G...

Churches of Dublin

Churches.

Municipal Government.

Municipal Government. As the history of the corporation of every city is intimately connected with the history of the city itself, the most...

Police, Prisons, Jails and Asylums.

Police Establishment. The first institution of Police in Dublin, is supposed to have taken place in the reign of Elizabeth, but upon a ve...

Friaries, Nunneries and Seceders.

Friaries Augustinian Convent. - The friary of St. John, in John-street, on the north side of Thomas-street, is within the district of ...

Charitable Institutions

Charitable Associations. Sick and Indigent Room-keepers. In 1791, the inhabitants in the neighbourhood of Ormond Market associated, for...

Schools for the education of the Poor.

Schools for the Education of the Poor. Incorporated Society. - This Society, which meets at a large building in Aungier-street, was inc...

Poor Schools and Religious Societies

Poor Schools Female Orphan-House. - About the year 1791, Mrs. Tighe and Mrs. Este formed a plan for fostering and educating female orp...

Public Squares and Statues.

Public Squares. No city in Europe is supplied with more spacious and beautiful public squares, or so great a number of them in proportion ...

Private Residences

Private Residences Most of the mansions of the nobility have been converted into public offices, and have been already noticed as such. L...

Theatres and places of Public Amusement.

Theatres and Places of Public Amusement. In the reign of Elizabeth, plays were represented in the ball-room of the castle, by the nobilit...

Dublin walks and routes to Cork and Belfast.

Perambulations of Dublin Or Guide to all the Principal Public Buildings, Squares, Streets, and other objects which are deserving of the a...

The Law Courts

Law Courts Previously to 1695, the courts of law in Ireland were itinerant. Carlow, Drogheda, and various town the kingdom, occasionally g...

Public Offices

Public Offices. General Post-Office. - France may, perhaps, be considered as being the first nation that established a regular and sys...

Barracks and Bridges

Barracks. The foundation of the Royal Barracks was laid in 1701, on the north side of the Liffey, near to the Park Gate: they consist of a...

Commercial Buildings

Commercial Buildings. The Royal Exchange - is situated on Cork-Hill, near the Castle gate, almost the highest ground in the city, and...

Dispensaries

Dispensaries Of institutions of this kind, there are a great number; which with a single exception (the Talbot Dispensary) are supported b...

Hospitals and Medical Institutions

Hospitals and Medical Institutions Royal Hospital, Kilmainham. - Before the year 606 there was a priory, on the south side of the cit...

Fine Arts

Fine Arts Though Ireland has produced many eminent artists (painters particularly), yet the Arts are, comparatively speaking, almost in a ...

Trinity College Dublin.

The University. Though the cultivation of learning, in Ireland, has been of very early date, yet few traces of the literary exertions of t...

Dublin Castle and Executive Government

The Castle This edifice, which was built by Henry de Loundres, Archbishop of Dublin, in 1220, was first used as a vice-regal residence in ...

History and Geography of Dublin

ANCIENT HISTORY of THE CITY OF DUBLIN. The city of Dublin anciently stood on the south side only of the river Anna Liffey, an inconsiderable...

Various Dublin societies.

Various Societies. Farming Society. - This society was instituted in 1800, and incorporated by royal charter 1815. Its objects are the i...

The Bank of Ireland.

Bank of Ireland. This noble structure, formerly the Parliament House, but purchased after the Act of Union, by the Company of the Bank of...

The Dublin Society (now the RDS)

Dublin Society. This valuable institution originated in the private meetings of a few eminent men, Dr. Prior, Dr. Madan, and others, 1781,...

Cathedrals, Christ Church and St. Patrick's

Cathedrals Cathedral of St. Patrick. The Cathedral dedicated to this celebrated Apostle of Ireland, was built by John Comyn, Archbi...