Grand Canal Dock
Docklands area east of Dublin city centre, Ireland
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Grand Canal Dock (Irish: Duga na Canálach Móire) is an urban area on the Southside of Dublin, Ireland. It is located on the border of eastern Dublin 2 and the westernmost part of Ringsend in Dublin 4, surrounding the Grand Canal Docks, an enclosed harbour where the Grand Canal meets the River Liffey. The area has undergone significant redevelopment since 2000, as part of the Dublin Docklands area redevelopment project.
The area has become a tech hub, serving as a popular location for multinational technology firms such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Airbnb; technology firms employed about 7,000 people in the area by 2015. The area has been the subject of debate over the balance of development and gentrification. It has been referred to as Silicon Docks (a reference to Silicon Valley), a nickname which has been the subject of derision over its clichéd nature.
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