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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 [...]

The Marino Local History Society have put this interesting animation about Marino together.
The Society can be contacted by e-mail at marino-history@hotmail.com
You can see the Society’s video of the “Big Snow” of 2010 here.
You can read more about the history of the area starting here.

Fairview Residents’ Association
Cumann Mhuintear Fionnradharc

Fairview Residents’ Association has joined the Northside Community Forum. Formed in 2003, the Forum is a community forum operating in Dublin North Central. Its principal objective is to encourage local community organisations, such as the FRA, to work together on a range of local issues identified by its members.
The Forum currently [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

See also History of Clonturk 2 and History of Clonturk 3
The Parish of Clonturk (i.e. The Meadow of the Swine)
The Parish of Clonturk is stated in the 17th century to have contained the townlands of Clonturk, Drishoge, Donnycarney, and Drumcondra.
It contains now the townlands of Ballybough (i.e. the poor town), Clonturk, Donnycarney (i.e. Caemach’s Church), Drishoge [...]

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 [...]

Following the June 5 local elections, we have two new councillors representing our area: Damien O’Farrell (IND), who topped the poll, and Aodhán O’Riordáin (Labour), who previously served in the North Inner City local electoral area.
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Gerry Breen (FG), Deirdre Heney (FF), and Naoise O’Muirí (FG) retained their seats, while Bronwen Maher (IND) lost her seat.
Congratulations to all the successful candidates!
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Fairview & Marino are part of the Dublin Constituency for the European Parliament elections and part of the Clontarf electoral area for the elections to Dublin City Council. Elections for both bodies will be held on June 5 next.
NearFM, in conjunction with the Northside Community Forum, is organising a series of debates, in the run [...]

 
The 123 bus no longer travels through Marino on its northward journey owing to the health & safety concerns of drivers entering Brian Road.
A number of elderly residents have been affected by this change.
The City Council are now consulting with Dublin Bus & the Traffic Advisory Group in an effort to address the issue. Dublin Bus [...]

The O’Brien Institute (or OBI) is a building complex in Marino,  Dublin, Ireland. It was built in 1880 – 1883. The purpose of the building was to serve as an orphan home and school, financed by a trust that was founded by Bridget O’Brien in 1876. The architect was John Joseph O’Callaghan (+ 1905). The original buildings of the Institution are [...]

The Marino Waltz was composed by John Sheahan. It was used for a popular commercial for Bord na Móna on Irish T.V. in the 1980s and became an instant hit for John.

John Sheahan intoduces the tune & the Dubliners play the Marino Waltz on the Late Late Show.
 

John Sheahan of The Dubliners Folk Group joins [...]

Westward of the North Strand, between Nottingham Street and Newcomen Bridge, and extending as far as Ballybough Road, was a locality of evil repute in former times, known as Mud Island, inhabited by a gang of smugglers, highwaymen, and desperadoes of every description, and ruled by a hereditary robber chief rejoicing in the title of [...]

Much of Fairview and some of Marino’s streets have been around for a long time now. The household returns and ancillary records for the censuses of Ireland of 1901 and 1911, which are in the custody of the National Archives of Ireland, represent an extremely valuable part of the Irish national heritage.
The 1911 Census, taken [...]

NEWS: Due to bad weather, the Family Fun day has been postponed until September 28.
Over the past number of years members of the Marino community have come together to organise a FREE family fun day. The first was held in 2000 to celebrate the new Millennium, it was so successful that a committee came together [...]

A study of an area in Dublin that has one of the highest concentrations of older people in the country, has found that there is a lack of key services and supports available to them.
More than 3,000 people over the age of 60 live in the Fairview/Marino area and a significant number of these are [...]

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 [...]

Dublin City Council has proposed that the Marino area be rezoned from Z1 (residential) to Z2 (residential conservation).
Zoning Z1 - To protect, provide and improve residential amenities
Zoning Z2 - To protect and/or improve the amenities of residential conservation areas.
This will have the effect of providing Marino with “an enhanced level of protection to the unique [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]