Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
DID Electrical is an Irish chain of electrical and electronics shops. It has 23 outlets throughout Ireland, employing some 400 staff. It has 23 outlets throughout Ireland, employing some 400 staff. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It was founded in 1968, with a shop on Mountjoy Square, Dublin.
Dublin Corporation. Dublin Corporation ( Irish: Bardas Bhaile Átha Cliath ), known by generations of Dubliners simply as The Corpo, is the former name of the city government and its administrative organisation in Dublin since the 1100s. Significantly re-structured in 1660–1661, even more significantly in 1840, it was modernised on 1 January ...
Poolbeg Generating Station(Irish: Cumhachtstáisiún an Phoill Bhig), colloquially known as The Poolbeg Stacks, is a power station owned and operated by the Electricity Supply Boardof Ireland (ESB). There are two stations on the site, the older thermal station containing units 1, 2, and 3 and the combined cyclegas station containing units CG14 ...
This is a list of historic houses in the Republic of Ireland which serves as a link page for any stately home or historic house in the Republic of Ireland. County Carlow [ edit ]
The destruction of country houses in Ireland was a phenomenon of the Irish revolutionary period (1919–1923), which saw at least 275 country houses deliberately burned down, blown up, or otherwise destroyed by the Irish Republican Army (IRA). [ 1] The vast majority of the houses, known in Ireland as big houses, belonged to the Anglo-Irish ...
The Parliament of Ireland ( Irish: Parlaimint na hÉireann) was the legislature of the Lordship of Ireland, and later the Kingdom of Ireland, from 1297 until the end of 1800. It was modelled on the Parliament of England and from 1537 comprised two chambers: the House of Commons and the House of Lords. The Lords were members of the Irish peerage ...
Volta Cinematograph. / 53.348986; -6.265883. The Volta Electric Theatre (later renamed the Lyceum Picture Theatre) was a film theatre in Dublin and was Ireland's first dedicated cinema. The site at 45 Mary Street was later demolished and is occupied today by a department store. In the early 1900s, demand for moving pictures was fierce and ...
In 1979 Dublin Corporation developed an office block on an unearthed Viking site Wood Quay. 1980s – A change in policy The Spire of Dublin, one of Dublin's newest monuments, is the world's largest sculpture. In the 1980s and 1990s, greater efforts were made to preserve Dublin's older buildings.