Getting to know you, Dublin
Modern Dublin has a truly unique feel - a mix of bohemian vibes and big business . Music, craic -humour, literature, pubs, high-tech companies, and Guinness world capital. As a port , it has particular links to Liverpool and England's North West, where many Irish people settled since the mid 19th century. The city streets layout spans from the 17th century when it was briefly the second largest, after London, in the British Empire. After the Acts of Union in 1800, when United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland came to be, Dublin was put on hold, the city had no major role in the Industrial Revolution. Belfast developed faster than Dublin at this time. The imaginative spirit of Dubliners was on the rise, though, creating one of the most celebrated literature , poetry and music hubs, linked with the Celtic heritage. Since the 1990s, Dublin was at the forefront of Ireland's economic expansion, the Celtic Tiger period. It attracted a number of...