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Definition of Capital of Ireland
1. Noun. Capital and largest city and major port of the Irish Republic.
Generic synonyms: Port, National Capital
Group relationships: Eire, Ireland, Irish Republic, Republic Of Ireland
Member holonyms: Dubliner
Lexicographical Neighbors of Capital Of Ireland
Literary usage of Capital of Ireland
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"A method of estimating the capital of Ireland haa becn employed by Dr Hancock
from the amount of capital passing annually under probate of wills and letters ..."
2. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1832)
"... boon was intended for the capital of Ireland. Of those English counties to
which an additional number of representatives was given, there were fifteen ..."
3. Industrial Ireland: A Practical and Non-political View of "Ireland for the by Robert Dennis (1887)
"Total capital of Ireland—Present Distribution and Employment—Five-sixths Invested
... THE total capital of Ireland is estimated at 276 millions sterling. ..."
4. The Parliamentary Debatesby Thomas Curson Hansard, Great Britain Parliament by Thomas Curson Hansard, Great Britain Parliament (1825)
"Two modes exist, by which the capital of Ireland may be increased, one by the
accumulation, of capital already existing in Ireland ; the other by the ..."
5. Europe Viewed Through American Spectacles by Charles Carroll Fulton (1874)
"We have spent a couple of days very agreeably in the capital of Ireland, and have
been ... THE capital of Ireland. The city of Dublin is undoubtedly a very ..."
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