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  • #16
    The Roman Catholic St Pappin's Church was built around 1797. St Pappin was the son of Aengus McNathfraid, the first Christian king of Munster.


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    • #17
      St George's Church was built between 1802 and 1813 for the Protestant community in the north inner city. Its architect was Francis Johnston, the man who also built the GPO in O'Connell Street. St George's has been closed as a church for a long time and once a theatre group worked from there.

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      • #18
        The Gresham Hotel on O'Connell Street is one of the oldest and most famous hotels in Dublin. The hotel was destroyed in the Civil War in 1922, but was rebuilt and re-opened in 1927.

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        • #19
          The Black Church or St. Mary's Chapel-of-Ease (it's real name) on St. Mary's Place was built in 1830. It was believed that if you ran around the church three times at midnight, the devil would apppear and steal your soul.

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          • #20
            'Casino' is the Italian word for 'small house'. It was built around 1770 as a summerhouse for the 1st Earl of Charlemont on his large country estate in Marino.

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            • #21
              Drumcondra House is believed to be one of the best examples of a large house built in the sytle of the early eighteenth century. This style is called Georgian after the British kings called George. In 1842 Father John Hand rented Drumcondra House as a school where young priest were trained to become missionaries. It became known as the Missionary College of All Hallows. Today, All Hallows College is a college of Dublin City University.

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              • #22
                Áras an Uachtaráin in the Phoenix Park is the house of the Irish president. The name means "living place of the president" in Irish.

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                • #23
                  Farmleigh was once a home of the Guinness family. It was bought by Edward Cecil Guinness in 1873. The Irish Government bought the house in 1999 as a guesthouse for important state visitors.

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                  • #24
                    Moore Street is one of the best know outdoor markets in Dublin. It is famous for its meat, fish fruit and vegetable stalls as well as the Dublin wit of its traders. No. 16 Moore Street was the last headquarters of the 1916 Rising, and it was here that the leaders held their last meeting before they surrendered.

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                    • #25
                      The seven towers in Ballymun were built between 1966 and 1969. In the 1960s planners and architects thought the best way to house many people very quickly was to build high towers with as many flats in them as possible.

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                      • #26
                        The Cadbury Factory has been making chocolate in Coolock since 1957. The factory is built on the grounds of an old house called Moatfield House.

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                        • #27
                          Coolock House was built around 1798. In 1809 a wealthy man named William Callaghan bought the house and came to live there with his wife and a young orphaned woman called Catherine McAuley. Catherine set up a new religious order called the Sisters of Mercy. The Sisters of Mercy are involved in education and helping people throughout the world. Coolock House is now a Sisters of Mercy convent.

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                          • #28
                            St John the Evangelist Church, Coolock was built in 1760 on the site of a really old church called St Brendan's Church.

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                            • #29
                              All Saints' Church, Raheny was built by Lord Ardilaun who owned St. Anne's estate in the late nineteenth century.

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                              • #30
                                The crescent cottages in Raheny were built around 1790 by Samuel Dick, the Governor of the Bank of Ireland and a very wealthy man. He built the cottages for men who worked on his estate.

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