Dublin or Baile Átha Cliath? Blackpool or the Ford of Hurdles? On the Name Origins of Ireland’s Capital City

Dublin offers one of the most striking examples in Irish place-name history, a capital city where the English name and the native Irish name describe two entirely different things. Most…

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