The Industries of DublinHistorical, statistical, biographicalAn account of the leading business men, commercial interests, wealth and growth . d, in manyinstances, decisive part in national affairs, and the internecinestruggles which, as far as the Danes were concerned, found Dublin of those distant days were not, however, as somechroniclers would have us believe, entirely devoid of everycharacteristic of refinement and civilisation. There isabundant evidence in proof of this. After their defeat byBrian Eoru in 1014 they fled to Dublin and Ilowth, and bythe payment of vast sums in tribute to D
The Industries of DublinHistorical, statistical, biographicalAn account of the leading business men, commercial interests, wealth and growth . d, in manyinstances, decisive part in national affairs, and the internecinestruggles which, as far as the Danes were concerned, found Dublin of those distant days were not, however, as somechroniclers would have us believe, entirely devoid of everycharacteristic of refinement and civilisation. There isabundant evidence in proof of this. After their defeat byBrian Eoru in 1014 they fled to Dublin and Ilowth, and bythe payment of vast sums in tribute to Dermot, King ofLeinster, secured that peace of which in bygone ages theyhad been the mo5t persistent disturbers, but which defeat andthreatened annihilation had taught them to prize. From thattime forth they devoted themselves to trade and industry asthen understood, and built many of the most beautiful churchesthe world in those days could boast—the remains of which,even in our own times, bear silent, but none the less eloquent,testimony to the love of art and devotion to religion possessedby the much-mali,i:ned race who erected THE OLD PARLIAMENT HOUSES (BANK 01 IRELAND). their consummation in the memorable and glorious victoryof Clontarf. Soon after Sitrics advent he was elected king,the neighbouring native princes made truces with iiiin, andduring the jieaceful period that followed he set himself thetask of fortifying the city and putting it in a state of completedefence. After the death of this Norse ruler hostilitiesbetween his successors and the native princes were offrciuent occurrence, and Dublin was, as a consequence,often besieged ; never, however, with any other result than thedefeat or withdrawal of the besiegers, .\bout the tenthcentury the Danes had become very numerous and powerful —a fact which emboldened them to make explorations andmarauding expeditions not only to remote parts of Ireland,but even into Wales, where their destructiveness and merciles
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