An historical guide to the city of Dublin

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I LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.

Preface

TO THE

SECOND EDITION.

Although reduced in bulk, by a compressed form of printing, for the purpose of enabling the publishers to offer the volume at a less price, this Edition will be found to contain not only all the information of the preceding one, that is really valuable and interesting to the majority of Readers, or Tourists, but also much that is new, whether as additions to the original matter, or entirely new articles. In this respect great pains have been taken to render the book as perfect as possible, and to bring down the accounts of Buildings and lnstilutions to the present time. Among the new subjects are —St. Stephen's Chapel, Merchants' Hall, the School of Anatomy, The Royal Hibernian Academy of Painting, &c. The account of the Dublin Society has been considerably enlarged, and the contents of its Museum, its pictures, &c. as fully described as the limits of a work of this nature would permit.

In this Edition, — which, considering the number and superior style of its embellishments, must be allowed to a 2

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be a cheap book—there is likewise given a Table of the Principal Edifices, showing their Architects, and the dates of Erection, as far as could be ascertained ; which will, it is hoped, prove not uninteresting either to the residents, or visitors, of a city which may justly pride it-« self on its architectural monuments. It will be useful, inasmuch as it lays before the reader at a single glance what is scattered throughout the Volume (besides some names not mentioned in the body of the work) ; and consequently greatly facilitates the reference to, and comparison of, dates and other particulars.

It has been thought, likewise, that the utility of the Volume as a Guide, would be considerably increased by the addition of an Itinerary, containing the Roads, &c. from London to Liverpool, and other ports where the stranger would embark for Ireland ; with ample information respecting the sailing of Packets, and the Routes from Dublin, to Belfast, and Cork. The Work has thus become a complete manual for the Tourist, without being thereby rendered less satisfactory to those who wish to possess a topographical history of the Irish Metropolis.

Table Of Contents

Page ITINERARY OF ROUTES., ix ACCOUNT OF LIVERPOOL ib PACKETS TO DUBLIN .... xxi GENERAL OBSERVA- TIONS xxiv

HOTELS IN DUBLIN xxv

PERAMBULATIONS OF

Contents

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