To celebrate the 16th birthday of Anna Dallas, who sometimes joins her grandparents, the regular musicians at Dublin Scottish Country Dance Club, and sometimes dances with us.
Dublin
With a little over 1.2 million inhabitants (2022, including suburbs) Dublin is the largest city and capital of the Republic of Ireland. A settlement had been established there by the 7th century CE at the latest, first by Gaels, then Vikings. With the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland in the 12th century Dublin became the most important city; after Ireland was joined to the kingdom of Great Britain at the start of the 19th century (resulting in the “United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland”), Dublin was briefly the second-largest city in the British Empire and one of the largest in western Europe. After Irish independence in 1922 it was declared the capital, and at least in 2018 was considered one of the “top thirty” cities of the world.
From “Anselm's Notes on Dances”, by Anselm Lingnau
(Used by permission.)