" Joyce himself referred to the chapter as a " prelude ", and as an " air photograph of Irish history, a celebration of the dim past of Dublin.

In the next decade Thomas Slade ( Surveyor of the navy from 1755, along with co-Surveyor William Bately ) broke away from the past and designed several new classes of 51-to 52-metre 74s to compete with these French designs, starting with the Dublin and Bellona classes.

They have marched past my prison windows to let me know that there are ten thousand fighting men in Dublin — ' felons ' in heart and soul.

The new Irish Houses of Parliament, designed by Edward Lovett Pearce, also faced onto College Green, while from College Green a new widened Dame Street led directly down to the mediæval Christchurch Cathedral, Dublin, past Dublin Castle and the Royal Exchange, the latter a new building, the former in the process of rebuilding, turning it from a mediæval castle to a Georgian palace.

The college has held two worldwide symphonic festivals in the past five years with professional-level performances in Dublin and the Greek islands.

The Stillorgan Road ( colloquially known as the Stillorgan dualler ) brings the road past Belfield, where University College Dublin is located ( and accessed from a grade-separated interchange on the dual carriageway-the first full interchange built in Ireland ) and onwards past Mount Merrion towards Stillorgan village.

Portadown is known as " the hub of the North ", due to it being a major railway junction in the past ; where the Great Northern Railway's line diverged for Belfast, Dublin, Armagh and Derry.

From 1817 this area was home to one of the major transport hubs in 19th century Dublin, containing a major railway station and a canal harbour, linking to the Grand Canal, crossing the North Circular Road, and going past the Mountjoy prison.

" The path of the Metro will first swing into Dublin 15 at the south end of Castleknock golf course and proceed past Porterstown playing pitches where it is hoped to have “ minimal impact .” The stop at Porterstown will be directly above the current Maynooth train line allowing the potential in the future to integrate the two services.

In times past, Terenure Cross ( Vaughan's Corner ) was a terminus for the city trams, and is mentioned as such in Ulysses ( Episode 7, Aeolus ), but it has been bypassed by the redevelopment of modern trams in Dublin ( the Luas lines ).

Although the problem of hard drugs in Dublin had been controlled somewhat, prior to the 2008 recession, through methadone programmes for addicts and better economic prospects for young people, it is by no means a thing of the past.

* Clonliffe College, Dublin ; A number of other institutions in the past would have awarded degrees Angelicum University such as Clonliffe College and other seminaries in Ireland.

In Dublin, students at the School of Medicine of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland still qualify with licentiate diplomas from the two Irish Royal Colleges, coupled with a Licence in Midwifery from each, although in the past few years they have also been awarded the three medical bachelor's degrees of the National University of Ireland:

" The path of the Metro will first swing into Dublin 15 at the south end of Castleknock golf course and proceed past Porterstown playing pitches where it is hoped to have “ minimal impact .” The stop at Porterstown will be directly above the current Maynooth train line allowing the potential in the future to integrate the two services.

* 5 October – In Dublin, women workers in Dunnes Stores, who have been on strike for the past 11 weeks in support of a dispute over the handling of South African fruit, begin a sit-in at the store.

Mixed Martial Arts has gained a lot of popularity in the past 5 years with many clubs opening in Dublin, Cork and Limerick.

In the past St. Patrick's Athletic Ladies played in the Dublin Women ’ s Soccer League ( the de facto Ladies League of Ireland ), winning the league championship in 1997.

In times past, Dublin Bay had a long-running problem with silting, notably at the mouth of the River Liffey.

Every person and every organisation which played any part in the campaign of bombing and violence which killed and maimed people and destroyed property in Belfast, Derry or any other part of our country and indeed in Britain over the past five years, shares the guilt and the shame of the assassins who actually placed these bombs on the streets of Dublin and Monaghan last Friday.

The President-elect ( see below ) travels either from Áras an Uachtaráin in the case of an immediate past president who has been re-elected, or from their own private home in the case of a new president, and is escorted to the ceremony in Dublin Castle in a famous 1947 Rolls-Royce alongside the motorcycles of the 2nd Cavalry Squadron.

Griffith have run CPA courses in Dublin, Cork and Ennis, Chartered Accountants Ireland ( ACA ) courses in Dublin, Limerick, Kilkenny and Waterford, in the past courses have been run in Belfast.

It seems that for Persia, and especially for this city, there are only two times: the glorious past and the corrupt, depressing, sterile present.

From there I turned left along Cumhuriyet Cadesi past more hotels and a park on the left, Republic Gardens, and came in a few moments to Taksim Square, one of the hubs of the city, with the Monument of the Republic, erected in 1928, in its center.

To the south is the city of Caldas da Rainha and the quaint medieval town of Óbidos that is an attraction for any tourists that enjoys a true glimpse of the past.

Other systems were used in the past, such as Wade-Giles, resulting in the city being spelled Beijing on newer English maps and Peking on older ones.

Its suburbs spread out over some area, beginning at Lee Point in the north and stretching to Berrimah in the east — past Berrimah, the Stuart Highway goes on to Darwin's satellite city, Palmerston, and its suburbs.

STAM, the new Ghent City Museum, is committed to recording and explaining the past of the city and its inhabitants, and to preserve the present for future generations.

The city was a major center of Gandhara's Greco-Buddhist culture in the past until it was conquered by Muslim Arabs in the 7th century.

The population and demographic distribution of the city has undergone considerable changes over the past 150 years.

The upper Niger, from the source past the trading city of Timbuktu to the bend in the current river, once emptied into a now-gone lake, while the lower Niger started in hills near that lake and flowed south into the Gulf of Guinea.

Nevertheless, he advocated intensive study of the past, particularly regarding the founding of a city, which he felt was a key to understanding its later development.

In a memorable NLCS, with four of the five games going into extra innings, they fell behind 2 – 1 but battled back to squeeze past the Houston Astros on a tenth-inning, game-winning hit by center fielder Garry Maddox, and the city celebrated its first pennant in 30 years.

In another essay in the book, titled " The Generic City ", Koolhaas declares that progress, identity, architecture, the city and the street are things of the past: “ Relief … it ’ s over.

They encounter a city and, in a floating building, they find a map of the Ringworld and videos of its past civilization.

In northeast Texas, the river flows past Mineola, Gladewater, Big Sandy, and Longview, the largest city on the river, to southwest of Shreveport at the 32nd parallel north, where it establishes the Texas-Louisiana boundary.

She tells Christine to “ take the spade of intelligence and dig deep to make a trench all around city … Reason will help to carry away the hods of earth on shoulders .” These “ hods of earth ” are the past beliefs Christine has held about male slanderers.

The book, and therefore the city, contains women of past eras, ranging from pagans to saints.

Beyond the road / rail land entrances at the northern edge of the city, transportation within the city remains ( as it was in centuries past ) entirely on water or on foot.

During the past three decades, the city has seen a dramatic rise in the number of international migrants, and today 15. 2 % of Milan's population is foreign born.

When Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick came under intense scrutiny for his personal conduct in 2008, he deviated from an address to city council, saying, " In the past 30 days, I've been called a nigger more than any time in my entire life.

" During the past two decades there has been a shift towards greater residential living areas in the Wall Street area, with incentives from city authorities in some instances.

Its flow, drainage, and destination have been altered over the years by human development: It crosses Interstate 4 and enters Disney property west of Celebration and passes between Disney's Animal Kingdom and Blizzard Beach, meandering north past the western reaches of the Bay Lake city limits and the Magic Kingdom.

Many important historic buildings were rebuilt, including the Semper Opera House, the Zwinger Palace and a great many other historic buildings, although the city leaders chose to reconstruct large areas of the city in a " socialist modern " style, partly for economic reasons, but also to break away from the city's past as the royal capital of Saxony and a stronghold of the German bourgeoisie.