Docklands area east of Dublin city centre, Ireland
The west inner basin and Boland's Mill, January 2022View of the western (inner) basin from the top floor of the Google Docks (Montevetro) building. Boland's Mill, the Alto Vetro building, and The Marker Hotel can be seen.
Grand Canal Dock (Irish: Duga na Canálach Móire) is a Southside area near the city centre of Dublin, Ireland. It is located on the border of eastern Dublin 2 and the westernmost part of Ringsend in Dublin 4, surrounding the Grand Canal Docks, an enclosed harbour where the Grand Canal comes to the River Liffey. The area has undergone significant redevelopment since 2000, as part of the Dublin Docklands area redevelopment project.
The area has been nicknamed "Silicon Docks"[1][2][3] by Google and Facebook (a reference to Silicon Valley) as it has become a popular location for multinational technology firms such as Google,[4] Facebook,[5] Twitter,[6] LinkedIn,[7] and Airbnb.[8] The area has been the subject of debate over the balance of development and gentrification as well as the subject of derision over the clichéd nature of its new nickname.[9]
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^Lyons, Tom (18 January 2014). "Airbnb finds its home in Dublin 4". Irish Times. Archived from the original on 8 April 2014. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
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Silicon Docks is a nickname for the area in Dublin, Ireland around GrandCanalDock, stretching to the IFSC, city centre east, and city centre south near...
from the Surrey Commercial Docks. The Grand Surrey Canal closed progressively from the 1940s, with all but the Greenland Dock closing in the 1970s. Much...
opened, the bulk of the shopping centre remains empty. GrandCanalDock: The GrandCanalDock (GCD) is a project that transformed the derelict and contaminated...
Eastern Commuter (Dublin Connolly to Gorey) and South Western Commuter (GrandCanalDock to Newbridge) routes, and is a terminus for the Northern Commuter (to...
Docklands, and at the west end is the area of South Lotts and part of the GrandCanalDock area. Neighbouring areas include Irishtown, Sandymount and the Beggars...
20 trains per hour in both directions through the Howth Junction to GrandCanalDock line, which caters for Howth DARTs, Malahide DARTs, Northern Commuter...
Stephen's Green, Dame Street, and Leeson Street. Dublin 2 also covers the GrandCanalDock and the City Quay areas. Dublin 2 is the location of a number of government...
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20 trains per hour in both directions through the Howth Junction to GrandCanalDock line, which caters for Howth DARTs, Malahide DARTs, Northern Commuter...
Irishtown, Merrion, Ringsend (including South Lotts and parts of GrandCanalDock) and Sandymount, on the Southside of Dublin. Most of the area was known...
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Strategic Development Zone (SDZ) (known officially as the North Lotts and GrandCanalDock SDZ Planning Scheme) is a controversial strategic planning area in...
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in Dublin, after Capital Dock, the Exo Building, Montevetro (now Google Docks) and the Millennium Tower in GrandCanalDock. Liberty Hall is more historically...
Ryan funded a purpose-built premises for the Lir, which is located in GrandCanalDock in Dublin. The Lir offers conservatoire training for actors along with...
located at 2 GrandCanal Quay, Ringsend, Dublin. The building was constructed on the waters of the inner basin of GrandCanalDock. Canals of Ireland Rivers...
The Grand Junction Canal is a canal in England from Braunston in Northamptonshire to the River Thames at Brentford, with a number of branches. The mainline...
Channel Row. It was constructed to connect the city centre to the GrandCanalDock, primarily for commercial traffic. It was named Great Brunswick Street...
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