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For seven centuries the centre of English and later British rule in Ireland, Dublin Castle stands on a ridge in the heart of the old city, on a site fortified since Viking times. The first stone castle was built from 1204 on the orders of King John, occupying the south-eastern corner of the walled medieval town. Little of the medieval fortress survives above ground, much of it lost to a fire in 1684, and the complex seen today is largely an elegant eighteenth-century creation of courtyards, sta...