DUBLIN

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DUBLIN
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OUTLINE

• General Facts
• History of the name
• Important historic events
• Dublin in the present
• Highlights

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General Facts

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• Capital of the Republic of Ireland
• Inhabitants 1.5 mio.
• 1111 people per km²
• First official language Gaelic

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History of the name

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• 2nd century AD Baile Átha Cliath
  the Ford of the Hurdles
  ? present
  official name

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9th century ADVikings choose Dublin as a
permanent settlement? Black Pool dubh-linn
(Dufflin)
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Important Historic Events

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988Irish High King captures Dublin ?official
millenium
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130010,000 inhabitants, city walls,
two cathedrals, public water supply
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1780
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Great Famine
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1916Easter Uprising
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Dublin Today

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Dublin Today

• Population
• Economy
• Topical problems and visions
• Lifestyle

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Growth of Population (GDA)
mio.
Greater Dublin Area
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Dublins Population

10.7
39.5
89.3
60.5
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Age of Population

• Early 80s gt 50 of Dublins population
  under the age of 25
• Currently still many young people ? 25
  go to school
• ( Ireland is still the youngest country in
  Europe)

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Dublin Today

• Population
• Economy
• Topical problems and visions
• Lifestyle

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Economy

• ? Ireland fastest growing economy in the EU

• Dublin
• engine of Irelands economic growth
• leading sectors
• software, electronics, tourism,
  pharmaceutical
• accounts for 48 of GVA (Gross Value Added)
• Industry employs 3/4 of all people at work
• 40,000 businesses (mostly small companies)

Bruttowertzuwachs
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Dublin in Top Growth league ? fourth position
among European cities with the highest economic
growth potential ............

• Ranking
• Paris
• London
• Helsinki
• Dublin
• Stockholm
• Madrid
• Munich

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Supporting factors of economy

• Ireland ? youngest country in Europe
• low business tax rates (standard rate 12.5)
• low Irish labour costs

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Dublin becomes international

• More than 800 overseas companies
• 5 of the worlds Top 10 software companies (
  European Centres )
• ? 40 of all Pc packaged Software
• home to leading hardware firms (e.g. hp)

abgepackte Software
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Dublin Today

• Population
• Economy
• Topical problems and visions
• Lifestyle

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Economic future

• Ireland is one of the most open economies in the
  world
• ?economy depends on the international
• market
• problems
• - a tight labour market
• - rising costs
• - need to develop infrastructure

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Rising costs

• Housing prices of Dublin 1995-2000

mio
1995 867,000.519 2000 1,269,123.543 ?
increase of 46.4 within 5 years!
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The River Liffey Dublins physical and social
devision
Northside
LIFFEY
Southside
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Contrast of wealth and poverty

• Southside
• wealthy
• home of the higher-paid, businessmen and middle
  classes
• museums
• spacious squares
• nobel hotels and restaurants

• Northside
• northern working-class suburbs
• nearly 50 unemployed
• lack of perspectives
• council housings and ruins
• bad health condition
• crime

big Sozialwohnung
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Why does a woman from south marry a man from
the north? ?To get her handbag back!
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Crime Racism

• increase in petty crime (e.g. pickpocketing)
• still one of Europes safest capitals
• racism does exist
• ? a majority of black have experienced
• some kind of racism
• ?but extreme kind of racism is rare
• reasons for racism
• people think that immigrants steal their jobs

small
stealing handbags
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Traffic

• Dublins main problem
• reasons for the traffic-chaos
• commuters using their car instead of public
  transport
• DART Dublins only decent alternative to the
  car
• ? horribly overused at rush hour

respectable
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Traffic- Visions

• main aim commuters using public transport
• A Platform for Change A Strategy for
• Dublins Transport to 2016
• making public transport an attractive alternative
  to the car
• plan a city centre metro system
• Luas(tram)- will open 2004, carrying 30,000
  commuters

Luas
Straßenbahn
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Dublin Today

• Population
• Economy
• Topical problems and visions
• Lifestyle

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Life in Dublin

• Europeans fun capital
• ? bars, nightlife, cultural activities,
• sporting events
• ? easy access to the lakes and mountains of
  the
• countryside

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Pubs

• about 1000 pubs in Dublin
• 1119 people per pub
• friendly and communicative people
• alcohol is sold very cheaply (it does not cost
  much more than in supermarkets)
• often live-music (mainly folk)

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Highlights

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Grafton Streetshop till you drop

• ? shopping- mile
• consume- paradise
• many boutiques
• jewelers
• buskers

musicians and artists on the streets
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Temple Bar
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Temple Bar

• one of the oldest areas
• most popular part of the city centre
• ? its cultural quarter
• pubs, restaurants, bars, discos, theatres and
  galleries

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Guinness Brewery

• Guinness Irelands national drink
• export- giant
• started up in 1820
• (Arthur Guinness II.)

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Phoenix Park

• Europes largest public park
• ? 712 ha
• ? twice as big as Central Park
• includes
• - gardens, lakes and sporting
• facilities (e.g. Polo)
• - Dublin Zoo second- oldest zoo in Europe
  

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Christchurch Cathedral
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Dublin Castle
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Chester Beatty Library
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Trinity College
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Four Courts
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St. Patricks Cathedral