Irishtown is a district of Dublin, Ireland. It is situated on the southside of the River Liffey, between Ringsend and Sandymount. WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 53. ... The Southside is not an official administrative area but a colloquial term. ... Boardwalks of River Liffey and OConnell Bridge, in Dublin City. ... Ringsend is a suburb of Dublin, the capital of Ireland. ... Sandymount (Dumhach Thrá in Irish) is a seaside village in the district of Dublin 4 in Ireland. ...

It lies a short distance outside the medieval city walls of Dublin. Dublin was originally a Viking city and after 1171, when an Anglo-Norman army took it, Dublin was the centre of English rule in Ireland. The native Gaelic Irish were therefore viewed as an alien force in the city. Suspicion of them was deepened by continual raids on Dublin and its environs by the O'Byrne and O'Toole clans from the nearby Wicklow Mountains. The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ... The Gaels are an ethno-linguistic group in Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man, whose language is one that is Gaelic (Goidelic), a division of Insular Celtic languages. ... The Wicklow Mountains are a range of mountains in the south-east of Ireland. ...

By the 15th century, Gaelic migration to the city had made the English authorities fearful that English language and culture would become a minority there. As a result, the Irish inhabitants of Dublin were expelled from the city proper in the late 15th century (1454?), in line with the Statutes of Kilkenny. They settled in Irishtown, outside the city walls, giving the area its name. The Statutes of Kilkenny were a notorious series of thirty-five acts passed at Kilkenny in 1367, aimed at curbing the alarming decline of the Hiberno-Norman Lordship of Ireland. ...

Other towns in Ireland have similar named areas, for the same reasons, for instance Limerick, Kilkenny, Athlone and Clonmel. WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 52. ... Statistics Province: Leinster County: County Kilkenny Area: 3. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 53. ... Clonmel (Cluain Meala in Irish) is a medium-sized town situated in south County Tipperary, Ireland. ...

See also

• Map of Irishtown
• History of Dublin