Tag: Bram Stoker
Heritage week 2009 in Fairview & Marino
The annual national Heritage Week (22-28 August) includes a number of events in and around the Fairview & Marino areas. These include:
Walking Tours of Old 18th-Century Marino Demesne with Pat Liddy, the well known Dublin historian (as suggested by Fairview Residents’ Association). There will be two walks: on 22 August at 15:00 - 16:30 and [...]
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Tags: Bram Stoker, casino, dracula, guided tours, heritage week, Marino
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Bram Stoker
Abraham “Bram” Stoker (8 November 1847 - 20 April 1912) was an Irish writer of novels and short stories, who is best known today for his 1897 horror novel Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known for being the personal assistant of the actor Henry Irving and the business manager of the Lyceum Theatre [...]
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Tags: Bram Stoker, dracula, Fairview, Suicides Plot
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History of Fairview from “5618 and all that”
The little village of Fairview which until the end of the 18th Century was known as Ballybough, has down the years seen the coming and going of many varied groups, sects, landowners, scholars, farmers, industrialists, law enforcers, wayfarers and colourful characters.
Croydon Park House at the top of Fairview Avenue (now Richmond Avenue) was once the [...]
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Tags: 1916, 5618, bombing, Bram Stoker, Clontarf Island, Cromwell, Dean Swift, dracula, Esmonde, floods, glass, history, James Joyce, jews, Joyce, Suicides Plot, Thomas Clarke
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