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RTE My Civil War

Featuring Marino, Fairview & Drumcondra
Transmission: RTE 1 - 3rd December 2012 @ 9:35PM
A new RTE Documentary will take viewers on a journey back in time to revisit some of the “horrendous crimes” of the Irish Civil War 1922 -1923. Revealing lost facts and showing the “human cost” of the Irish Civil War.

Presented by Eddie [...]

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History Talk on Marino

A Garden City: the Dublin Corporation Scheme 1924with Rhona McCord
Marino Library will host a talk on the history of Marino on Monday 26 March at 6.30pm. Booking Advised.
Booking: Marino Library phone: 8336297 email: marinolibrary@dublincity.ie
Address: 14 - 20 Marino Mart, Fairview, Dublin 3
Marino Library is  part of the Marino College building – entrance to the Library [...]

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Changing Face of Fairview - Radio show

The Changing Face of Fairview is a five part documentary radio series produced by NearFM volunteer John Haughton.
The series began on Thursday March 15th @ 6pm and explores the history, heritage and local organisations & amenities that make up the area of Fairview & Marino.
Join John as he talks to senior citizens to find out [...]

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Talk on the history of the OBI

History of the O’Brien Institute, Marino
Venue: Marino Library
Time and Date: Wednesday 28th September 6.30pm.
Booking Highly Recommended Phone: 01-8336297 email: marinolibrary@dublincity.ie
Marino Library will host a talk on the History of the O’Brien Institute (OBI), Marino with local Historian Jim Cantwell.
Since 1982 the OBI has served as HQ for Dublin Fire brigade Service. Very little [...]

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CY History

Located on Philipsburgh Avenue, Fairview CYMC/LC has been on this site since 1919 and celebrated its 90th anniversary in 2009. The new clubhouse opened in 1983, replacing the old CYMS building on the same site.

Originally known as the Catholic Young Men’s Society (or “Cumann na bhFear n-Óg Catoiliceach agus Ghaedhilg” as it called itself in [...]

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Heritage Day 2011

Heritage Day 2011 (March 25th) was hosted by St. Joseph’s CBS Primary School, Fairview, St. Mary’s Primary School, Fairview and the Marino Local History Society.
The day consisted of a living history pageant, speeches, four specially commissioned videos celebrating the heritage of the area from 1014 -1916, the unveiling of three plaques in various historical points [...]

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History of Clonturk 3

See also History of Clonturk 1 and History of Clonturk 2
In Georgian Times
At the time of the accession of George the First, Belvedere was the residence of Sir John Coghill’s eldest son, Marmaduke Coghill, who was, like his father, a civilian, and had succeeded him as judge of the prerogative court. At the same time [...]

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History of Clonturk 2

See also History of Clonturk 1 and History of Clonturk 3
From the Stuart to the Hanoverian Succession
John Bathe, to whom William Bathe surrendered at the close of Elizabeth’s reign his inheritance, was the chancellor of the exchequer’s second surviving son by his first wife, and at the time of the surrender to him he was 33 [...]

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FRA: Let’s Walk & Talk

Fairview Residents’ Association
Cumann Mhuintear Fionnradharc

“Let’s Walk & Talk” helps Dubliners learn about their local history while getting some fresh air and a bit of exercise. Organised by Dublin City Council, the initiative consists of local walking tours and other special events in various parts of the City.
Fairview Residents Association has asked to be included in this initiative, and the [...]

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History of the Jewish Cemetery

On the 28th of October 1718, Alexander Felix (David Penso), Jacob Do Porto, and David Machado Do Sequeira, on behalf of the Ashkennazim leased a plot of land in Ballybough from Chichester Phillips of Drumcondra Castle.
Situated on present day Fairview Strand - this plot of land measuring “half a rood and five perches” or roughly [...]

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History of the Jews in Fairview & Marino

The first Jews to come to Ireland in significant numbers were Morano Jews, that is to say Jews who readily converted to Christianity but practised their Jewish faith assiduously. These Jews came from Spain and Portugal and were believed to have fled the Inquisition. Within a few years there were enough Jews to found a [...]

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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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Fairview & Marino: history 1

Fairview and Marino
Passing beyond the old city boundary at Ballybough Bridge, one of the first objects of interest is the Catholic parish Church of Fairview, which is a little more than half a century old. The building which was its predecessor, previously a Dominican Convent, is on Fairview Strand, a little beyond Fairview Avenue. This [...]

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Marino Casino

The Casino at Marino, located in Marino, Dublin, Ireland was designed by Scottish architect Sir William Chambers for James Caulfeild, the 1st Earl of Charlemont, starting in the late 1750s and finishing around 1775. It is a small and perfect example of Neo-Classical architecture, situated in the gardens of Marino House. Although proud of the [...]

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Marino

Marino is a Northside suburb near the north inner city area of Dublin, Ireland.
Location and access

Marino encompasses the area within the boundaries of Sion Hill Road, Gracepark Road, Philipsburgh Avenue (from Lynch’s north, Malahide Road and Shelmartin Terrace. Marino borders other Northside areas such as Fairview, Donnycarney and Clontarf. It is two kilometres from the [...]

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