Donnybrook, Dublin
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| Donnybrook Domhnach Broc |
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| Irish grid reference O169318 |
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| Province: | Leinster | |
| County: | County Dublin | |
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| Website: www.donnybrook.biz/ | ||
Donnybrook (Irish Domhnach Broc, meaning The Church of [Saint] Broc) is a district of Dublin, Ireland. It is situated on the southside of the city, in the Dublin 4 postal district, and is home to the Irish state broadcaster RTÉ. It was once the location of Donnybrook Fair, a fair held from the time of King John onwards which was notorious for drunkenness and violent disorder. This gave rise to the word donnybrook, meaning a brawl or fracas. The fair was banned in 1855 and there is little trace of the village's disreputable past; the only reminder of its raucous history is a supermarket called Donnybrook Fair on the main street. Donnybrook is now one of the most affluent suburbs of Dublin.[citation needed]. Though it contains a great mix of housing both social and privately owned.
Donnybrook is the home of rugby union in Leinster. The head office of the Irish Rugby Football Union Leinster Branch is located opposite Donnybrook Rugby Ground, where the professional Leinster team play their home games. Kiely's pub in Donnybrook village is a traditional social point for rugby fans.[citation needed] It was once part of the Pembroke Township.
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[edit] Geography
The River Dodder runs through Donnybrook. It is popular with amateur fishermen and boasts a multitude of wildlife.
[edit] Famous Inhabitants
[edit] Writers
- Patrick Kavanagh
- Anthony Trollope
- Flann O'Brien aka Myles na gCopaleen aka Brian O'Nolan, lived on Belmont Avenue
- Benedict Kiely
- Padraic Colum
- Brendan Behan
- Denis Johnston and his wife, the actress/ director Shelah Richards
[edit] Others
- Jack B. Yeats
- Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
- John Boyd Dunlop (pneumatic tyre)
- Guglielmo Marconi (wirless radio - lived in Montrose House , a family home of his mother's family the Jamesons of whiskey fame, on the grounds of the state broadcaster RTÉ)
- Eamon de Valera (President of Ireland)
- Pádraig Pearse (a leader of the 1916 Easter Rising)
- The O'Rahilly (Patriot killed in the 1916 Easter Rising)
- Michael Collins (Freedom-fighter killed during the Irish Civil War in 1922)
- George E. H. McElroy (WWI fighter ace RFC/RAF)
[edit] References
- Dictionary.com/Word of the Day Archive/donnybrook — etymology of the noun
- Dublins Famous People and Where They Lived by John Cowell
- A Literary Guide To Dublin by Vivien Igoe
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