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Can you confine 24 hours of a city in a book that is nearly as vast as the universe? Well, James Joyce did that to Dublin in "Ulysses". Today, Dubliners, as well as scores of tourists, celebrate the famous novel during Bloomsday. It is but one of the countless attractions of this city, one of the most vibrant capital cities of Europe.
Dublin is the focal point for the entire Republic of Ireland. This city of one million people ( nearly a third of the Republic's population ) boasts an exceptional history, fascinating present, and has all good chances to look forward to an excellent future. Dublin is infested with cool monuments of the past, and its present and future look bright because of the people and - last but not least - the country's vibrant economy, which, to be fair, is a lot dependent on the capital city. The Dublin of today is a child of its rather complicated and turbulent history during which nations mixed and conquests multiplied. The city began as a Celtic settlement, of which the most vivid memory today is perhaps Dublin's Celtic name: Baile Atha Cliath. It comes from a river crossing the Celts would use more than a thousand years ago. Dublin's international name comes from the Vikings, the first of the nations that wished the city were theirs so much that they raided it several times before they finally decided to stay for good. Dubh linn was the name of the port they founded where the rivers Poddle and Liffey would join. As the Vikings and the Celtic Irish finally managed to get on with each other by the 11th century, there came another turn in the city's history. In the 12th century the Normans came to occupy Dublin and its surroundings, the so-called Pale area. From then on, Dublin's fate was "rather unwillingly" linked to its bigger neighbour England. Though always the nest for Irish revolutionaries, Dublin had its golden age under the British in the 18th century when it was second only to London in size and importance. Unsurprisingly, it was in the 18th century (in 1759 to be precise) when Arthur Guinness founded the world-famous brewery. The mid 1800s were, first of all, the years of the disastrous Irish Famine and Dublin did not come unscathed out of this, though still it was better off than the rest of the country. Throughout the entire 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century, Dublin was the hub of anti-British resentment which at first brought it disappointment and long years of decline. This was because of the 1798 uprising against the British that quickly failed. As a result, London dissolved the Irish parliament and then enforced a union between the two opposing countries. Step by step, however, the Irish activists were forcing positive changes , not only through politics directly, but also in the field of literature and arts. So it was in Dublin where Douglas Hyde started the Gaelic League that in turn spurred the so-called Celtic Revival with W. B. Yeats perhaps its greatest name. In 1916 the streets of Dublin saw fighting for the future of the country. The 1916 Easter Rising failed, but it still set the historic process in motion that eventuated in the long-awaited independence and proclamation of the Republic. It wasn't until the 1990s, however, that the Republic (together with its capital city) saw the times of prosperity. The decade of an unprecedented economic growth, record-low unemployment and whooping budget surpluses had its impact on Dublin which has always been the prime business site of the Republic. Even if the economic pace slackened a bit in the first years of the new millennium, Dublin has not felt it too much. It still attracts numerous immigrants, both from the rest of the country as well as from outside it, looking for jobs (especially in the IT industry) and better life in one of Europe's premiere cities. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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