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From: rjw@ptsfc.UUCP (Rod Williams)
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Subject: Re: Re: Harbors and harbours
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Date: Thu, 13-Feb-86 15:02:39 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 13 15:02:39 1986
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>   Ireland (gaelic + english)
>      Baile Atha Cliath (gaelic)                  == Dublin (english)
>      Corcaigh (gaelic)                           == Cork (english)
>      Luimneach (gaelic)                          == Limerick (english)

 Those of you wondering how Baile Atha Cliath came to be Dublin
 should know that Dublin is the anglicized version of the gaelic
 'Dubh Linn' (approximately pronounced 'dhuv ling', meaning black
 pool. The gaelic version is no longer in use).

 If my memory serves me, Baile Atha Cliath (usually pronounced
 rather indistinctly as "balyawclee'uh", meaning the town of the
 ford of the hurdles) was the gaelic version of the Viking name
 for the city (most of the major coastal towns in Ireland were
 founded by the Danes). When the Danes were driven out of Ireland
 in 1014 (by the heroic High King Brian Boru at the Battle of
 Clontarf), the city was renamed Dubh Linn (or maybe I got it
 backwards :-)). In any case, the black pool and the ford of the
 hurdles seem to have gone along with the Danes (:-)).

 Side note: Ironically, though now living 6,000 miles away from my
            home town of Dublin (Ireland), I'm working about two
            miles away from Dublin (California). There are no black
            pools here either, but plenty of Fords (|-P)
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