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New Bride Street
New Bride Street () is a street in the Dublin 8 area of Dublin in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It runs between Kevin Street and Heytesbury Street in Dublin's south inner city. History New Bride Street gets its name from the earlier Bride Street, which was named after a church dedicated to Brigit of Kildare built by the Irish prior to the Norman conquest of Ireland, Norman conquest; the medieval church was replaced by a new St Bridget's (St Bride's) in 1684. By 1757 John Rocque, Rocque's Map shows that Bride Street had been extended and renamed Bridget Street. Wilson’s Directory Map of 1848 shows the development of the then-unnamed New Bride Street from Kevin Street to Long Lane. By 1847 the street had been named New Bride Street and was extended up to the junction with Pleasants Street. Between 1894 and 1901, houses were built from a charitable trust of Edward Cecil Guinness for the labouring poor - three parallel ranges of mostly one and two-room flats with narrow courts betw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dublin Institute Of Technology
Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT, ga, Institiúid Teicneolaíochta Bhaile Átha Cliath) was a major third-level institution in Dublin, Ireland. On 1 January 2019 DIT was dissolved and its functions were transferred to the Technological University Dublin, as TU Dublin City Campus. The institution began with the establishment of the first technical education institution in Ireland, in 1887, and progressed through various legal and governance models, culminating in autonomy under a statute of 1992. DIT was recognised particularly for degree programmes in Product Design, Mechanical Engineering, Architecture, Engineering, Science, Marketing, Hospitality, Music, Optometry, Pharmaceuticals, Construction, Digital Media and Journalism. It was ranked, in 2014, in Times Higher Education's top 100 university-level institutions globally under 50 years old. Influential contributions to policy debates have often placed DIT at the heart of many diverse aspects of public life in Dublin. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
