Terenure
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Template:Ie citytown infobox Terenure (Tír an Iúir in Irish: 'Land of the Yew Trees') is a residential suburb of Dublin, Ireland. It is located south of Harold's Cross and north of Rathfarnham.
Located in the Dublin 6W postal district, Terenure has a reputation as an upper-class suburb, and is strongly associated with the rugby-playing school, Terenure College [1], ("The Gick") but the village has always had a bohemian side too, with many actors, drinkers and writers (including actor Donal McCann,drinker Thomas Barry, and poets Austin Clarke and Máirtín Ó Direáin) having lived there; with Rathgar and the area around Portobello in Dublin 8 it has also traditionally been the home of many of Dublin's relatively sparse Jewish population, most noteably The Laurels on the west bank of the town, see 10 Penny Bag War.
Terenure is also home of the Enterprise Centre once visited by the then leader of Fine Gael, John Bruton in the run up to the 1997 General Election and described locally as a "Bastion of Capitalism".
Terenure is a suburb of Dublin city proper, and its southern boundary is also part of the administrative boundary between Dublin City Council and South Dublin County Council. In times gone by Terenure Cross was a terminus for the city trams, and is mentioned as such in Ulysses (Episode 7, Aeolus), but it has been bypassed by the redevelopment of modern trams in Dublin (the Luas lines). The Roman Catholic parish church in Terenure has spectacular stained glass by Harry Clarke. St. Joseph's Boys' National School is on the same grounds.
Terenure is also the home of Terenure College RFC, a senior rugby club in Divsion 2 of the AIB League.
- See also: List of towns in the Republic of Ireland
Terenure is also home of The Jewish Cronicle,The Star & Sunday World newspapers, boxer Mick Dowling and musicians Republic Of Loose, Rob Smith and The Mighty Stef.