By way of tribute to poet Gerard Dawe, who has died aged 72, we revisit his 2022 contribution to The Lyric Feature on RTÉ lyric fm - listen to From Kingstown to Dun Laoghaire above.. In this ...

From Kingstown to Dun Laoghaire, presented by Gerald Dawe, is the Lyric Feature on Sunday 5th June at 6 pm on RTÉ lyric fm, and will be available after broadcast as a Lyric Feature podcast.

Today, Dun Laoghaire seems to most Dubliners as about as exotic as their backyard, but in the 1830s the fishing hamlet of Kingstown became a tourist magnet when Ireland's first rail line connected ...

Enjoying Dun Laoghaire harbour on a sunny day - from The Granite Coast by Peter Pearson (O'Brien) Victoria White. Sat Nov 19 2022 - 05:00. ... Dún Laoghaire/Kingstown, ...

Until the construction of Dun Laoghaire Harbour along with the Dublin-Kingstown railway, there was little development in the area where Royal Terrace is now located. Ordnance Survey maps from 1816 ...

Dún Laoghaire’s relationship with the sea has always been at the heart of its identity. The town gets its name from a fort built on the coast by High King Laoghaire in the fifth century.

Before the sun set on British rule, the port constituency of Dun Laoghaire was the most loyal in what is now the Republic of Ireland. Those who had the vote - and not everyone did - regularly ...

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Dún Laoghaire, photographed here in 1895, used to be known as Kingstown. The Irish port of Dún Laoghaire is full of reminders of its British past. The Royal Irish Yacht Club, ...

Work to design and plan a national watersports campus in Dun Laoghaire has begun. Contracts to begin the process of creating the new Dun Laoghaire harbour project have been signed by DLR County ...