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Henry Street (Dublin)
Henry Street () is located on Dublin's Northside and is one of the two principal shopping streets of Dublin (the other being Grafton Street). Location Henry Street runs from the Spire of Dublin and the General Post Office on O'Connell Street in the east to Liffey Street in the west. At Liffey Street, the street becomes Mary Street, which continues the shopping street until it ends at crossing Capel Street. Henry Street and Mary Street are often considered as one (and in fact form a single shopping area with their eastward continuations, beyond the Spire, North Earl Street and Talbot Street). Henry Street is connected to Princes Street North by the GPO Arcade. History The land around Dublin's Northside was the original part of the estate of St Mary's Abbey. It was given to James FitzGerald, 13th Earl of Desmond following the Dissolution of the Irish monasteries in 1537. The street was developed by Henry Moore, 1st Earl of Drogheda in 1614, whose estate lands and dev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southside, Dublin
The Southside () is the part of Dublin city that lies south of the River Liffey. It is an informal but commonly used term. In comparison to the city's Northside, it has historically been regarded as wealthier and more privileged, with several notable exceptions. Malahide, one of the wealthiest areas in Ireland, is on the Northside, for example, whereas low-income districts such as Jobstown and Sallynoggin are part of the Southside. Areas of the Southside The Southside includes Dublin city centre south of the Liffey, including Grafton Street and other notable streets, and also inner city areas such as The Liberties / The Coombe and Temple Bar. Beyond the city centre, the Southside (in the geographical sense) includes the districts named here, most of the names being old, though many were until recent times rural townlands: Postcodes Traditionally, Dublin postal districts on Southside begin with even numbers, while those of the Northside begin with odd numbers. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James FitzGerald, 13th Earl Of Desmond
James fitz John FitzGerald, 13th Earl of Desmond (died 1558), also counted as the 14th, ruled 22 years, the first 4 years as ''de facto'' earl until the death of James FitzGerald, de jure 12th Earl of Desmond, called Court Page, who was murdered by James fitz John's brother Maurice fitz John FitzGerald, called Totane. James fitz John FitzGerald maintained himself in power by skilful diplomacy, avoiding armed conflict and destruction. He was appointed Lord Treasurer of Ireland in 1547. Birth and origins James was born about 1500, the second but eldest surviving son of John fitz Thomas FitzGerald and his wife More O'Brien. At that time his father was a younger brother of the reigning earl of Desmond, Thomas fitz Thomas, the 11th Earl, called the Bald. His father's family, the FitzGeralds of Desmond, were a noble cadet branch of the Old English Geraldines, of which the FitzGeralds of Kildare were the senior branch. James's mother was a daughter of Donogh O'Brien of Carrigog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Upscale Shopping Districts
A shopping street or shopping district is a designated road or quarter of a municipality that is composed of Retail, retail establishments (such as Retail store, stores, boutiques, restaurants, and Shopping center, shopping complexes). Such areas may be Pedestrian oriented, pedestrian-oriented, with street-side buildings and wide sidewalks. They may be located along a designated street, or clustered in mixed-use commercial area. In larger cities, there may be multiple shopping streets or districts, often with distinct characteristics each. Businesses in these areas may be represented by a designated business improvement association. Examples of shopping streets and districts, organized by location, include. Africa Cameroon * Yaounde — Avenue Kennedy * Douala — Avenue Ahmadou Ahidjo, Boulevard de la liberté Egypt * Cairo — Khan el-Khalili, Al-Hussein Area * Alexandria — Manshiya, Alexandria, Manshiya, Berkleley * Sharm El-Sheikh — Naama Bay, Shark's Bay, Sharm El- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Street Preaching
Open-air preaching, street preaching, or public preaching is the act of evangelizing a religious Religion is a range of social- cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural ... faith in public places. It is an ancient method of proselytism, proselytizing a religious or social message and has been used by many cultures and religious traditions, but today it is usually associated with Evangelicalism, evangelical Protestantism, Protestant Christianity. Supporters of this approach note that Jesus in Christianity, Jesus and many of the Old Testament prophets often preached about God in Abrahamic religions, God in public places. It is one of the oldest approaches to evangelism.Spurgeon, p. 234 In the Bible One of the earliest open-air preachers of Christianity, according to the gospels, was Jesus Christ, whose first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mime
A mime artist, or simply mime (from Greek language, Greek , , "imitator, actor"), is a person who uses ''mime'' (also called ''pantomime'' outside of Britain), the acting out of a story through body motions without the use of speech, as a theatrical medium or as a performance art. In earlier times, in English, such a performer would typically be referred to as a mummer. Miming is distinguished from silent comedy, in which the artist is a character in a film or skit without sound. Jacques Copeau, strongly influenced by Commedia dell'arte and Japanese Noh theatre, used masks in the training of his actors. His pupil Étienne Decroux was highly influenced by this, started exploring and developing the possibilities of mime, and developed corporeal mime into a highly sculptural form, taking it outside the realms of naturalism. Jacques Lecoq contributed significantly to the development of mime and physical theatre with his training methods. As a result of this, the practice of mime h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Busking
Street performance or busking is the act of performing in public places for gratuity, gratuities. In many countries, the rewards are generally in the form of money but other gratuities such as food, drink or gifts may be given. Street performance is practiced all over the world and dates back to ancient history, antiquity. People engaging in this practice are called street performers or buskers, although ''busker'' is generally not used in American English. Performances are anything that people find entertainment, entertaining, including acrobatics, Animal training, animal tricks, balloon modelling, balloon twisting, caricatures, clowning, comedy, contortions, escapology, dance, singing, Fire performance, fire skills, flea circus, fortune-telling, juggling, magic (illusion), magic, mime artist, mime, living statue, musical performance, one man band, puppeteering, snake charming, storytelling or reciting poetry or prose, street art such as sketch (drawing), sketching and paintin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parnell Street
Parnell Street () is a street in Dublin, Ireland, which runs from Capel Street in the west to Gardiner Street and Mountjoy Square in the east. It is at the north end of O'Connell Street, where it forms the south side of Parnell Square. History Originally, Parnell Street was part of the ancient road connecting the old city to the northern coast, with Father Mathew Bridge connecting Church Street and Wood Quay in the east, to Ballybough and Fairview in the west. 18th century During the 18th century, the development of Amiens Street and Annesley Bridge provided a new coast road, and Parnell Street and its continuation to the east, Summerhill, became home to Georgian architecture. Prominent Georgian buildings on the street include the Rotunda Hospital, the Ambassador Theatre and the Gate Theatre while previously the street also included Simpson's Hospital and the Damer Institute. In 1748, Bartholomew Mosse bought land from William Naper on Parnell Street to construct the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilac Centre
The Ilac Centre is a shopping centre, located in central Dublin, north of the River Liffey. It has entrances opening onto Henry Street, Parnell Street and Moore Street. History The Ilac Centre was opened in 1981, and was one of the first shopping centres in Dublin city centre. It has been characterised as a "large, low and dull cruciform" shopping complex. It was designed by David Keane & Partners in 1977. The centre is owned by Hammerson and Irish Life Assurance plc. The name was made up from the initial letters of the company as it was then known - Irish Life Assurance Company. Irish Life also previously owned the Irish Life Mall on Talbot Street. It was a scaled back project from the initial 50 acre development proposed by Nathaniel Lichfield, an English master planner, in the mid-1960s. To construct the new shopping centre, a network of old laneways and alleys were demolished, including Riddle's Row, Cole's Lane, and Little Denmark Street, the street from which 2RN had br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Spire Of Dublin From Henry Street 2006-06-16 (cropped)
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee'') ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roches Stores
Roches Stores was a national chain of department stores in Ireland, that was owned by the Roche family. Roches Stores was founded in Cork in 1901 by William Roche, the son of a farmer from north County Cork, who had worked in Cash's in Cork city and for a time in London. The business began life as a small furniture shop in a former sawmill on Merchant Street in Cork. Over the following twelve years, Roche grew the business to include womenswear and moved to a new premises on Winthrop Street. In 1919, Roche moved the business to a large premises on Patrick Street. On 11 December 1920, during the Irish War of Independence, British forces set fire to much of Cork city centre and destroyed many premises on Patrick Street, including Roche's shop. Roche moved the business back to his previous premises on Merchant Street, returning to the Patrick Street premises in May 1927 with the benefit of government compensation for the attack.Barry Roche, The Irish Times, 'Last chapter for storie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Easter Rising
The Easter Rising (), also known as the Easter Rebellion, was an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week in April 1916. The Rising was launched by Irish republicans against British rule in Ireland with the aim of establishing an independent Irish Republic while the United Kingdom was fighting the First World War. It was the most significant List of Irish uprisings, uprising in Ireland since the Irish Rebellion of 1798, rebellion of 1798 and the first armed conflict of the Irish revolutionary period. Sixteen of the Rising's leaders were executed starting in May 1916. The nature of the executions, and subsequent political developments, ultimately contributed to an increase in popular support for Irish independence. Organised by a seven-man Military Council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Rising began on Easter Monday, 24 April 1916 and lasted for six days. Members of the Irish Volunteers, led by schoolmaster and Irish language activist Patrick Pearse, joined b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnotts (Ireland)
Arnotts is a department store on Henry Street in Dublin, Ireland. It was designed by G.P. Beater for John Arnott, and opened in 1895. It replaced an earlier store founded by George Cannock, Andrew White, and Andrew and Patrick Reid in 1845, which had burned down in 1894. The store is owned by the Selfridges Group, which itself is jointly owned by the Thai conglomerate Central Group and Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund. It is sister stores with the Brown Thomas, De Bijenkorf, and Selfridges department stores through this ownership. History Arnotts has its origins in a business founded in 1843 at 14 Henry Street, by George Cannock and Andrew White. In 1845, two bankers, Andrew and Patrick Reid, became partners in the business. In 1848, White died, and the Scottish entrepreneur John Arnott took shares in the company. In 1865, Cannock departed the business, and the business was renamed as Arnott's. Arnotts occupies much of the block behind the GPO to the west of O'Connell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
