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Dublin (From the Irish ''"Dubh Linn"'' meaning ''"Black Pool"'' but it's official Irish name is ''"Áth Cliath"'' meaning ''"The Hurdled Ford"'') is the capital of [[~~Useful Notes/Ireland|~~Ireland]], the [[The Irish Diaspora|third-largest Irish city]] after [[Big Applesauce|New York]] and [[~~Useful Notes/~~Boston|Boston]], and the largest city on the island with a population of about 1 million, including suburbs, and 1.6 million including the population of surrounding counties.

Dublin (From the Irish ''"Dubh Linn"'' meaning ''"Black Pool"'' but it's official Irish name is ''"Áth Cliath"'' meaning ''"The Hurdled Ford"'') is the capital of [[Ireland]], the [[The Irish Diaspora|third-largest Irish city]] after [[Big Applesauce|New York]] and [[Boston (useful notes)|Boston]], and the largest city on the island with a population of about 1 million, including suburbs, and 1.6 million including the population of surrounding counties.

Officially, Dublin celebrated its millenium in 1988 (making the city a spry 1020 at time of writing), but that was just a brazen excuse to hold a party: the [[Horny Vikings|Vikings]] established a stronghold in the Liffey River back in 841 (and even before that there was [[wikipedia:Eblana|Eblana]]). Dublin was an important Hiberno-Norse kingdom for centuries, before <s> some different French accented Vikings</s> the Normans arrived and turned it into the centre of English (and later British) power in Ireland for centuries.