Ireland Postal Cover Baile Atha Cliath Illus Ad Cover 1951 For St Patrick[s Day

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Cover from Baile Atha Cliath Ireland 1951 to Washington DC USA, franked with Ireland Scott #67 and 142-4, on great illustrated advertising cover for St Patrick's Day.   Shows a three leaf clover with images of Blarney Castle, Killarney's Lakes and Dublin City.  Comes with a matching card inside the envelope.
Really nifty St. Patrick's Day ad cover.  VF
Unlike many Irish place names, Dublin is not transliterated from or related to the Gaelic name for the area:
Baile Átha Cliath
and each name describes different things.
In fact, if the original Irish form was correctly transliterated, Ireland's capital would be called something like Ballyaclee.
As a settlement Dublin is said to have been first occupied by Viking traders c.988AD. Sailing their longships up the River Liffey (originally called
An Ruirthech
or the 'stampeding-one') they came upon a dark tidal-pool at the site where the River Poddle and the River Liffey met and which they appropriately named
Dyflin
, meaning  ‘black-pool’, which later took the Irish form
Dubh Linn.
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