Dublin
Dublin names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Dublin the metropolis and capital city of Ireland
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
the metropolis and capital city of Ireland. It is situated on the eastern coast at the mouth of the Liffey River. With reference to the Irish Sea it is directly opposite Liverpool, from which it is 138 miles distant. The Liffey, spanned by numerous fine bridges, flows through the center of the city from west to east. Below the last of nine bridges the river is crowded with ships. The central, official, and commercial part of the city is essentially English. The Bank, Trinity College, various government buildings, the names of the public squares, streets, and bridges, and a lofty monument to Lord Nelson, the hero of Trafalgar, all bear witness to British rule. This part of the city is adorned with fine edifices, green, well-kept squares, and numerous statues of public men, as Burke, Goldsmith, O'Connell, Moore, Grattan, and William III. The custom house is a handsome building, a city block in size. It has lofty porches and doors. It is adorned with statues of Plenty, Industry, Mercury, and Neptune. The Four Courts, or Hall of Justice is the most striking structure in Ireland. Phoenix Park, containing the residence of the lord lieutenant, is considered one of the most beautiful parks in Europe. The visitor who expects to see an Irish city is somewhat surprised to find the best part of Dublin occupied by memorials erected by a governing foreign element to please, not the people, but themselves; while the native laboring population, speaking in a general way, occupies a vast encircling section of humble, not to say, squalid homes and muddy streets. Of late the Catholic or native element has had a better chance. The Roman Catholic University, supported by voluntary contributions, is prospering. No less than fourteen imposing church edifices have been erected by the Catholics to take the place of poverty-stricken buildings. At one time famous for weaves of woolen goods and fine linen, Dublin has declined in importance as a manufacturing city. It is still noted for Irish poplins, and is a brewing and distilling center. The shipping is confined chiefly to exports of agricultural products, and imports of groceries and hardware. The supplies required by the city itself are a large item. The present population is about 291,000. See Ireland
Dublin a city of Georgia
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city of Georgia, the It is on the county-seat of Laurens co. Macon, Dublin and Savannah, the Central of Georgia, and the Wrightsville and Tennille railroads, and on the Oconee There are cotton and oil mills, river. fertilizer works, and manufactures of hardwood products, cigars, etc. Pop. (1910) 5,795; (1920) 7,707. DUBLIN (Irish Dubh-linn, black pool), the capital of Ireland; on the river Liffey, where it disembogues into Dublin Bay. Much of the city is built on land reclaimed from the sea, and the ground is generally flat, with a very few undulations, scarcely deserving the name of hill. The river, running from E. to W., divides the city into two almost equal portions. The aristocratic parts are the S. E. and N. E., containing many beautiful squares, with splendid streets and terraces. The center and the N. W. quarter are the great emporiums of trade and the residence of the middle classes, many of whom, however, have their private houses in the suburbs. The S. W. division, part of which is called the "Liberties," was once the seat of the silk trade. The streets in this quarter are narrow, r, while in the fash- , crooked, and irregular ionable quarter they possess a totally The city is suropposite character. rounded by a "Circular Road," of nearly 9 miles in length, forming a favorite drive and promenade. Dublin was the center of the fighting during the Irish rebellion on Easter Monday, 1916, when the postoffice and other public buildings as well as many business houses were wrecked. Pop. (1919) 399,000.
Dublin UNIVERSITY OF, an institute for higher learning
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
UNIVERSITY OF, an institute for higher learning, in Dublin, Ireland, better known as Trinity College. It received a charter from Queen Elizabeth in 1591, and the ground upon which it was built was donated by the Corporation of Dublin. The first chancellor was There William Cecil, Lord Burghley. were in 1919 1,350 students and 88 instructors.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Aiton's saw in 1910 a capital whose finest quarter was "memorials erected by a governing foreign element," from Nelson's Pillar to the lord lieutenant's house in Phoenix Park; Collier's, writing in 1921, could already report the wreckage of the Easter Rising of 1916. Within a year of that account Dublin was the seat of the Irish Free State, and it is now the capital of a sovereign republic and of a European Union member state; the lord lieutenant's lodge is the president's residence, Áras an Uachtaráin, and Nelson's Pillar was destroyed by a bomb in 1966, its site taken by the Spire of Dublin in 2003. The Four Courts, called "the most striking structure in Ireland," was shelled and gutted at the opening of the Civil War in 1922, taking the Public Record Office and centuries of Irish records with it, and was later rebuilt. Trinity College, with 1,350 students in 1919, now teaches tens of thousands and long ago ceased to be a Protestant preserve; Dublin, Georgia, still a county seat on the Oconee, has grown from 7,707 to roughly 16,000.
Written for this edition, 2026.