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Northside / Southside

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  • 19-02-2008 7:01pm
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    buzzard
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    What separtes the Northside of Dublin from the Southside ??

    Don't say the Liffey as the Phoenix Park is Dublin 8 and that's north of the Liffey.

    Interesting to here the answers as I reckon its the walls of the Pheonix Park.


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    jdivision
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    The River Liffey is essentially it but the exception is that area you mentioned
    According to Wiki:
    Anecdotally this is sometimes said to be because the park is home to the official residence of the President of Ireland, and it was thought unsuitable for the President to live on the unfashionable Northside when the numbering system was being introduced. However the real reason behind this is explained by eminent Dublin historian Pat Liddy[citation needed]: "There is a very simple, practical reason why the Phoenix Park is in Dublin 8 and it has nothing whatever to do with snobbery but with practicality. Long before there were postal codes the James's St Postal Sorting Office looked after the Phoenix Park because it was considered to be closer and more convenient than Phibsborough (Dublin 7). James's St continued in this role when the postal codes were introduced so Dublin 8 it had to be."


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