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Dublin Bay is a delta

River delta

A delta is a landform that is created at the mouth of a river where that river flows into an ocean, sea, estuary, lake, reservoir, flat arid area, or another river....
shaped inlet

Inlet

An inlet is a narrow body of water between islands or leading inland from a larger body of water, often leading to an enclosed body of water, such as a Sound , bay , lagoon or marsh....
of the Irish Sea

Irish Sea

The Irish Sea also known as the Mann Sea or Manx Sea, separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain. It is connected to the Celtic Sea portion of the Atlantic Ocean by St George's Channel between Republic of Ireland and Wales, and to the north by the North Channel between Northern Ireland and Scotland which forms part of...
off the east coast

Coast

The coast is defined as that part of the land adjoining or near the ocean or its saltwater arms. A precise line that can be called a coastline cannot be determined due to the process of tides....
of Ireland

Ireland

Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
. The bay

Bay

A bay is an area of water bordered by land on three sides. Bays generally have calm waters than the surrounding sea, due to the surrounding land blocking some ocean surface wave and often reducing winds....
is approximately 10 km in width at its north-south base and 7 km in length to its apex at the centre of the city of Dublin

Dublin

Dublin is both the largest city and capital of Republic of Ireland. It is located near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the centre of the Dublin Region....
, stretching from Howth Head

Howth Head

Howth Head is a headlands and bays north of Dublin in Republic of Ireland, near the districts of Baldoyle and Portmarnock. Sutton, Dublin lies at the entry to the headland and on part of the southern side, and Howth district occupies the rest, with the village and harbour on the northern side....
in the north to Dalkey Point (at Dún Laoghaire

Dún Laoghaire

D?n Laoghaire is a suburban seaside town and county town of County of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, Republic of Ireland.The town is situated some 12 kilometres south of Dublin city centre, and is a major port of entry from Great Britain....
) in the south. The artificially created Bull Island

Bull Island

Bull Island or more properly North Bull Island is an island located in Dublin Bay in Republic of Ireland, about long and 800 m wide, lying roughly parallel to the shore off Clontarf, Dollymount, Raheny, Kilbarrack, and facing Sutton, Dublin....
(North Bull Island) is situated in the northwest corner of the bay and features a 5 km long sandy beach, Dollymount Strand, fronting an internationally recognised wildfowl reserve.

It is the expanse of the Irish Sea into which the River Liffey

River Liffey

The Liffey is a river in Republic of Ireland, which flows through the centre of Dublin. Its major tributaries include the River Dodder, the River Poddle and the River Camac....
and the River Dodder

River Dodder

The River Dodder is one of the three main rivers of the Dublin region in Republic of Ireland....
flow after their conjunction at Dublin (from the Irish "Dubh Linn" meaning "Black Pool"), as well as the River Tolka

River Tolka

The River Tolka is a river which flows through Dublin, Ireland. It rises near Dunshaughlin, Co. Meath, bypassing Dunboyne, Mulhuddart, Blanchardstown, Finglas, then through the Northside districts of Glasnevin, Drumcondra and Ballybough, before entering Dublin Bay at East Wall....
and various smaller rivers. The metropolitan area

Metropolitan area

A metropolitan area is a large population center consisting of a large metropolis and its adjacent zone of influence, or of more than one closely adjoining neighboring central city and their zone of influence....
of the city of Dublin almost completely surrounds three sides of the bay (the north, west, and south), while the Irish Sea lies to the east.

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Dublin Bay is a delta

River delta

A delta is a landform that is created at the mouth of a river where that river flows into an ocean, sea, estuary, lake, reservoir, flat arid area, or another river....
shaped inlet

Inlet

Irish Sea

Coast

Ireland

Bay

Dublin

Howth Head

Dún Laoghaire

Bull Island

River Liffey

River Dodder

River Tolka

The metropolitan area

Metropolitan area

Norwegian people

Norwegians See also History of Norway and Demography of Norway.There are about 4.4 million ethnic Norwegians living in Norway today. The Norwegians are a Scandinavian ethnic group, descendants of the Norsemen , and Celts....
at the point where they were able to ford the River Liffey with the first wattle bridge up from the estuary. As technology moved forward in Ireland it became possible to bridge the rivers further and further down to the sea, and to reclaim the swampy foreshore. The city spread from its birthplace around Guinnesses and James's Gate, to the sea and out along the coastline north-east towards Howth and south-east towards Dalkey.

James Joyce

James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Ireland expatriate author of the 20th century. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses and its controversial successor Finnegans Wake , as well as the short story collection Dubliners and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ....
set practically all the action of his novel

Novel

File:2009 stapelweise Neuerscheinungen im Buchladen.JPGA novel is today a long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern Romance and in the tradition of the novella....
Ulysses
Ulysses (novel)

Ulysses is a novel by James Joyce, first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on February 2, 1922, in Paris....
around the bay from the Forty Foot

Forty Foot

The Forty Foot is a promontory on the southern tip of Dublin Bay at D?n Laoghaire, County Dublin, Ireland, where people have swum in the Irish Sea all year round for some 250 years....
in which Buck Mulligan washed in the morning of Bloomsday to Howth, where Mr Bloom made love to his Molly under the rhododendron

Rhododendron

Rhododendron is a genus of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. It is a large genus with over 1000 species and most have showy flower displays....
s.

Dublin Bay, being rather shallow and having many sandbanks and rocky outcrops, was notorious for shipwrecks; especially when the wind was from the east. Up until modern times many ships and their passengers were lost along the treacherous coastlines out from Howth and Dun Laoghaire, not a kilometer from shore.

Over 500 crew and passengers (the majority military personnel) were lost when the steamship RMS Leinster
RMS Leinster

RMS Leinster , operated by the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company, served as the Kingstown -Holyhead mailboat until she was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine UB-123 on 10 October 1918, while bound for Holyhead....
was torpedoed and sunk by German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
U-Boat

U-boat

U-boat is the anglicized#Loanwords version of the German language word , itself an abbreviation of Unterseeboot , and refers to military submarines operated by Germany, particularly in World War I and World War II....
UB-123 on 10 October 1918. She lies in 33 meters (108 ft) of water at latitude 53° 18' 88" N (53.324); longitude 5° 47' 71" W. (-6.803)

In 1972 the Dublin Port and Docks Board

Dublin Port

Oil refinery

An oil refinery is an industrial process plant where crude oil is processed and refined into more useful petroleum products, such as gasoline, diesel fuel, asphalt, heating oil, kerosene, and liquefied petroleum gas....
in Dublin Bay. The plan was vigorously opposed by environmentalists, including Dublin City Council

Dublin City Council

Dublin City Council refers to two different entities.* From 1841 until 1 January 2002 it referred to the unicameral city assembly of Dublin, which was part of the overall administrative and governmental system of Dublin known as Dublin Corporation....
lor Seán D. Loftus

Seán Dublin Bay Rockall Loftus

Se?n Dublin Bay Rockall Loftus is an Ireland Environmentalism, barrister and politician who drew attention to his campaign issues by changing his name....
, on the grounds that it posed a serious risk of pollution

Pollution

Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into an environment that causes instability, disorder, harm or discomfort to the ecosystem i.e. physical systems or living organisms ....
. Loftus, a life-long campaigner for Dublin Bay, changed his name by deed poll

Deed poll

A deed poll is a Law document binding only to a single person or several persons acting jointly to express an active intention. It is, strictly speaking, not a contract because it binds only one party and expresses an intention instead of a promise....
to "Seán Dublin Bay Loftus" when standing for election to the Dáil

Dáil Éireann

is the principal chamber of the Oireachtas . It is directly elected at least once in every five years under the system of proportional representation by means of the Single Transferable Vote ....
. Although he was not elected, he succeeded in highlighting the issue and the proposal was eventually turned down by the Minister for Local Government, James Tully (Loftus later changed his name by deed poll to "Seán Dublin Bay Rockall Loftus" as part of a campaign to press the Irish Government to make a territorial claim to the Rockall

Rockall

Rockall is a small, uninhabited, rocky islet in the north Atlantic Ocean, and one of the sea areas named in the Shipping Forecast broadcast on BBC Radio 4....
islet off the coast of County Donegal

County Donegal

County Donegal is a county located in the west of the Province of Ulster, in the northwest of Ireland. It is one of three counties in the Province of Ulster that do not form part of Northern Ireland....
). Loftus has also led opposition to the 2002 application by the Dublin Port Company

Dublin Port

Dublin Port is Ireland's biggest sea port. It has both historical and contemporary economic importance. Approximatively two-thirds of the Republic of Ireland's port traffic goes via Dublin Port....
to fill in of Dublin Bay. Other suggestions for the bay have included a proposal to build giant underwater gas storage tanks, and to infill the near-lagoon behind North Bull Island to form a leisure park.

Geographical coordinates

Latitude: 53° 20' 4" N (53.33444)
Longitude: 6° 6' 38" W (-6.110556)

Dublin Bay

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