Terenure
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| Terenure Tír an Iúir |
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| Province: | Leinster | |
| County: | County Dublin | |
| Elevation: | 54 m | |
| Population (2002) | Approx. 20,000 (Area) | |
Terenure (Tír an Iúir in Irish: 'Land of the Yew Trees') is a residential suburb of Dublin, Ireland. It is part of the Southside and in the administration of Dublin City Council.
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[edit] Location
Terenure is located south of Harold's Cross and north of Rathfarnham, and partially contained in the Dublin 6, Dublin 6W and Dublin 12 postal districts. Terenure borders the suburbs of Templeogue, Rathgar, Harold's Cross, Kimmage and Rathfarhham.
Terenure is a suburb of Dublin city proper, and its southern boundary, delineated partly by the River Dodder, is also part of the administrative boundary between Dublin City Council and South Dublin County Council. In times past, Terenure Cross (Vaughan's Corner) was a terminus for the city trams, and is mentioned as such in Ulysses (Episode 7, Aeolus), but it has been bypassed by the redevelopment of modern trams in Dublin (the Luas lines). There were no less than three tram depots in Terenure at one time, the main tram depot for the number 15 DUTC trams in Terenure Road East, another DUTC depot for number 16 trams in Rathfarnham Road, and the terminus of the Dublin & Blessington Steam Tramway on Templeogue Road.
[edit] History
Terenure, Drimnagh and Kimmage, on the south side of Dublin City, were given to the Barnewell family by King John in 1215. The Barnewells gave some of the land to St John The Baptist Hospital outside Newgate, and Cromwell confiscated the remainder from them. Terenure passed through the hands of various owners since then, including what is now Terenure College (bought by the Carmelites in 1860).
[edit] Points of interest
The village was home to writer James Joyce, gay bachelor Michael Donohoe and home to actors, writers, artisans and musicians (including actors Donal McCann and Aidan Grennell, metal restorer Darren Twyford, poet Máirtín Ó Direáin) and musicians Mik Pyro and Benjamin Loose and Mick Tierney from the band Republic of Loose and Rob Smith.
With Rathgar and the area around Portobello in Dublin 8, Terenure has traditionally been the home of many of Dublin's relatively sparse Jewish population. On Rathfarnham Road, is the Terenure Synagogue, Dublin's main synagogue (Orthodox) [1].
One of the local secondary schools, Terenure College has also fostered such well-known Irish figures as retired broadcaster Mike Murphy, Derek Daly former Formula One driver, famous comedian Dave Allen and ICROSS (Aids Charity) Founder Dr. Michael Meegan, among many other influential figures.
Terenure is also home of the The Star newspaper and among its better known citizens are Olympic boxer Mick Dowling, large-headed circus act Niall Redmond, gaelic football legend Jerome O'Shea and musicians Republic Of Loose, Rob Smith, Phoenix and The Coronas.
The Catholic parish church of St. Joseph in Terenure is an impressive edifice with a spectacular stained glass window by Harry Clarke and it was here that literary icon James Joyce was baptised in 1882. He was born at 41, Brighton Square mid-way between Terenure and Rathgar, though the latter claims him as their own, despite his family being firmly rooted in Terenure. His mother, Mary Jane (May) Murray, was a native of Terenure village and was born about 100 metres from the Church in the public house known as the Eagle House owned by her father at Vaughan's Corner. St. Joseph's Boys' National School is on the Church grounds.
Terenure was also the launching point for the illustrious Mannering family of New York. At their prime in Terenure, this family was a major real estate and business owner. One of the roads in Terenure, although unposted, was well known as “Mannering Lane”. The family began emigrating to New York in the 1960s where it has prospered in the fields of real estate, international commerce, technology, law and the arts. A relatively small contingent of the family remains in Terenure today.
[edit] Dublin 26 debate
Social and political instability plagued Terenure in the early 90's relating to the now defunct Dublin 26 movement. Plans to replace the Dublin 6w postcode with a Dublin 26 postcode provoked violence in some flashpoint areas. The plan has been since shelved.
[edit] Sport
Terenure is the home of Terenure College RFC, a senior rugby club in Division 1 of the National AIB Premier League.
Terenure Football Club provide schoolboy and adult soccer to the surrounding area. Terenure FC
Terenure College is nicknamed "The Gick" (particularly in a rugby context - Ross O'Carroll-Kelly's writings contain many examples of such usage). The nickname is most commonly explained as follows: "Terenure" is often contracted by rugby types to "The 'Nure", this rhymes with and is expanded to "Manure", "Gick" is Anglo-Irish slang for manure or faeces. "The Gick" can also refer to the district of Terenure though this more general usage is rare.
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