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The Southside (Taobh Ó Dheas in Irish
Irish language

Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic languages of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people....
) is not an official administrative area but a colloquial term referring to the area of County Dublin
County Dublin

County Dublin , or more correctly today the Dublin Region , is the area that contains the city of Dublin, the Capital of Republic of Ireland as well as the largest city on the island of Ireland; and the modern counties of County of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, County of Fingal and County of South Dublin....
 south of the river Liffey.








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The Southside (Taobh Ó Dheas in Irish
Irish language

Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic languages of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people....
) is not an official administrative area but a colloquial term referring to the area of County Dublin
County Dublin

County Dublin , or more correctly today the Dublin Region , is the area that contains the city of Dublin, the Capital of Republic of Ireland as well as the largest city on the island of Ireland; and the modern counties of County of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, County of Fingal and County of South Dublin....
 south of the river Liffey.

Areas of the Southside


The Southside includes Dublin city centre south of the Liffey, comprising many streets, such as Grafton Street, and also inner city areas such as The Liberties
The Liberties

The Liberties is a well-known district in the south-west inner city of Dublin, Ireland....
 / The Coombe and Temple Bar
Temple Bar, Dublin

Temple Bar is an area on the south bank of the River Liffey in central Dublin, Republic of Ireland. Unlike the areas surrounding it, Temple Bar has preserved its medieval street pattern, with many narrow Cobblestone streets....
.

Beyond the city centre, the Southside (in the geographic sense) includes the below, most of the names being of long heritage, though many were until recent times rural townlands:




Famous Southsiders


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  • Bob Geldof
    Bob Geldof

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  • Liam Cosgrave
    Liam Cosgrave

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  • Éamon de Valera
    Éamon de Valera

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  • Brian O'Driscoll
    Brian O'Driscoll

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  • Bono
    Bono

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  • Garret FitzGerald
    Garret FitzGerald

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  • James Joyce
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    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 ....
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  • Oscar Wilde
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See also

  • Dublin 4
    Dublin 4

    Dublin 4 is a Dublin postal districts, Ireland including the suburbs of Sandymount, Ballsbridge, Donnybrook, Dublin, Ringsend and Irishtown, Dublin on the Southside ....