Dame Street is a large thoroughfare in Dublin, Ireland

Republic of Ireland

Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...

. The street is the location of many banks such as AIB

AIB

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, Ulster Bank

Ulster Bank

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 and the Central Bank of Ireland

Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland

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. It is close to Ireland's oldest university

University

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, Trinity College, Dublin

Trinity College, Dublin

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, founded in 1592, the entrance to which is a popular meeting spot.

During the day, the street is very busy, due to its prime location in the city centre. It is a five-minute walk to the shopping area of Grafton street and ten minutes from O'Connell Street

O'Connell Street

O'Connell Street is Dublin's main thoroughfare. It measures 49 m in width at its southern end, 46 m at the north, and is 500 m in length...

, Dublin's two most famous thoroughfares. At the other
Daly's Club

Daly's Club

Daly's Club, with premises known as Daly's Club House, was a gentlemen's club in Dublin, Ireland, a centre of social and political life between its origins in about 1750 and its end in 1823.-History:...

 was founded in the 1750s at numbers 1-3 Dame Street and remained there until 1791, when it moved to College Green

College Green

College Green is a three-sided "square" in the centre of Dublin. On its northern side is a building known today as the Bank of Ireland which until 1800 was Ireland's Parliament House. To its east stands Trinity College Dublin, the only constituent college of the University of Dublin. To its south...

.

Central Bank of Ireland Dame Street (1975) - It was built higher than planning permission allowed but this was rectified retrospectively. The matter was debated in the Oireachtas

Oireachtas

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in 1974