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Pimlico is an inner city area of Dublin, Ireland on the southside in Dublin 8. It lies between Thomas Court and Ardee Street. It lies between Thomas Court and Ardee Street. At the Thomas Court end of Pimlico is Pimlico Cottages.
A History of the City of Dublin. Oxford: Oxford University. George Newenham Wright (2005). "An Historical Guide to the City of Dublin". Online book. Archived from the original on 31 October 2007; Craig, Maurice (1969). Dublin: 1660–1860. Dublin: Allen Figgis. Bennett, Douglas (1992). Encyclopedia of Dublin
The street is likely named after Marylebone in London; Pimlico is located right next to it, and other London-inspired street names are nearby, like Spitalfields. These were brought to Dublin by London wool-workers, who settled in the area after William III's conquest of Ireland in 1690.
1702 – State Paper Office established in Dublin Castle. 1707 – Marsh's Library incorporated. [1]1707 - The original Custom House opens on Custom House Quay, Dublin.; 1708 – The Registry of Deeds is established by an Irish Act of Parliament entitled "An Act for the Publick Registering of all Deeds, Conveyances and Wills that shall be made of any Honors, Manors, Lands, Tenements or ...
Pimlico is the setting of the 1940 version of Gaslight. Post World War II, Pimlico was the setting of the 1949 Ealing comedy Passport To Pimlico. In G. K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy, Pimlico is used as an example of "a desperate thing." Arguing that things are not loved because they are great but become great because they are loved, he asserts that ...
Christ Church Cathedral (exterior) Siege of Dublin, 1535. The Earl of Kildare's attempt to seize control of Ireland reignited English interest in the island. After the Anglo-Normans taking of Dublin in 1171, many of the city's Norse inhabitants left the old city, which was on the south side of the river Liffey and built their own settlement on the north side, known as Ostmantown or "Oxmantown".
Georgian Dublin is a phrase used in terms of the history of Dublin that has two interwoven meanings: to describe a historic period in the development of the city of Dublin , Ireland, from 1714 (the beginning of the reign of King George I of Great Britain and of Ireland) to the death in 1830 of King George IV .
Exact survey of the city and suburbs of Dublin Published by Peter Wilson Size 34 cm x 23 cm. Scale of British feet 3 cm to 1000 feet. Published by Peter Wilson of Dame Street. 1780 Pool and Cash's Dublin Robert Pool and John Cash Panorama view of Dublin. 1782 John Robertson's plan of the city of Dublin John Robertson