Seana at "Confessions of Ignorance" has shown interest in a part of Dublin that is often mentioned by writers.
If you do some searches for a book called "Dublin 4" by Maeve Binchy it should give some idea of the atmosphere in Donnybrook.
Shrewsbury and Ailesbury Roads were the most expensive places on the Monopoly board game, but many of the houses there have fallen out of private hands. Herbert Park is really a lovely part of the city.
Overall I think of Donnybrook as a relatively dull part of what are late 19th Century suburbs, but since the national broadcasting centre, RTE is in that area it became the focus for a national interest in the stereotypical person who is supposed to live in Dublin 4.
The really posh areas are further out of town. Foxrock (local boy made good Samuel Beckett) still holds its own. Dalkey and Killiney, since they are so pretty are worth looking at too. Expensive to live in, however.
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Can't be too bad a place, though, with the likes of Flann O'Brien, Anthony Trollope, Jack Yeats and Sir Ernest Shackleton having once lived there.
That was in the past. Now it's solid middle class.
Dull...
It's interesting because right now, the middle class seems to be precisely what's in ferment here.
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