Southside (Dublin)
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The Southside is not an official administrative area but a colloquial term. To some, especially those from outside Dublin, the Southside of Dublin is thought to be defined as the area bounded to the north by the River Liffey, to the east by Dublin Bay and to the south and west by the M50 motorway. However, a more common and everyday use of the term, esepcially as regards the stereotypes and characteristics associated with the Southside and Southsiders, is to consider the Southside to be that area loosely bounded by the green-line LUAS and the DART. This holds true especially as regards the cliché that the Southside has areas of higher affluence than the Northside. Areas of the Southside included in this more culturally relevant definition include Mount Merrion, Foxrock, Goatstown, Cabinteely, Ballsbridge, Rathmines, Donnybrook, Dalkey, Killiney and, possibly Terenure. The territory incorporated in the wider but looser definition would include areas such as Drimnagh , Ballyfermot and Tallaght.
The stereotypical Southsider has a sophisticated and intellectual image, and is associated with hockey, rugby and University College Dublin. There is also a well-known stereotypical southside accent which is viewed disdainfully by some (see Dortspeak). These stereotypes are satirized in a Sunday Tribune column written by Paul Howard under the byline Ross O'Carroll-Kelly.
Famous southsiders include former Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald, James Joyce, Austin Clarke, Oscar Wilde, and the man considered, by some, to be the father of the modern Irish State, Eamon de Valera(born in New York), was schooled and educated on the Southside in Blackrock College, and resided there for most of his life.
See also
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City of Dublin ( Northside, Southside) | Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown | Fingal | South Dublin |
