Dublin 4
Template:Use Hiberno-English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox settlement Dublin 4, also rendered as D4<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and D04,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> is a historic postal district of Dublin, Ireland including Baggot Street Upper, the southernmost fringes of the Dublin Docklands,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and the suburbs of Ballsbridge, Donnybrook, Irishtown, Merrion, Ringsend (including South Lotts and parts of Grand Canal Dock) and Sandymount, on the Southside of Dublin. Most of the area was known as Pembroke until 1930 when it was absorbed by the City of Dublin.
The headquarters of the national broadcaster RTÉ, the RDS, Merrion Centre, University College Dublin, Aviva Stadium, Google and a number of foreign embassies to Ireland are all located in Dublin 4.
It is Ireland's most expensive postcode.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> At the height of the Celtic Tiger economic boom, Shrewsbury Road in D4 was the sixth most expensive street in the world, with one property on the street selling for €58 million.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> As of 2022, the average property price in the district was almost €1 million.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Popular culture
Dublin 4 or its abbreviation, D4, is sometimes used as a pejorative adjective to describe Dublin's upper-middle class based on the perceived characteristics of residents of this area. However, it sometimes also used to refer to the Irish upper middle class in general, regardless of whether or not they live in the D4 area. In this sense the term signifies a set of attitudes said to be in opposition to those held by "the plain people of Ireland" by Irish commentators such as Desmond Fennell.<ref>Template:Cite book and Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="kim-bielenberg"/>
While the area has, for most of its existence, been seen as well-to-do, the use of the term D4 as an adjective emerged in the 1990s.<ref name="kim-bielenberg">Template:Cite news</ref> The fictional jock Ross O'Carroll-Kelly was meant as a caricature of this.
The term has been used to describe the aspirational upper middle-class from south Dublin and also used by Fianna Fáil members who like to portray themselves as being on the side of "the plain people of Ireland".<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Maeve Binchy's book, Dublin 4, contains a series of short stories set in the area.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Accent
A change in accent occurred between those born roughly before 1970 and those born in the early 1970s or later.<ref name="hickey-p45">Template:Cite book</ref>
In the early 1980s, a group of people in Dublin 4 developed a different accent, partly in rejection of older views of Irishness.<ref name="hickey-p47">Template:Cite book</ref> This form of Dublin accent was known as "Dublin 4", "Dartspeak" or later "DORTspeak/Formers Morket" (after the Dublin 4 pronunciation of DART, which runs through the area). It has also been noticed that people who move into the area and parts of south Dublin from outside the county and who would normally speak in their native accent develop the DORT accent as well.<ref name="hickey-p47"/> The accent quickly became the subject of ridicule.<ref name="hickey-p47"/>
Quotes
Two examples of "Dublin 4" being used to refer to alleged wealth: Template:Cquote<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Sometimes the antonym plain people of Ireland or plain people was contrasted with it: Template:Cquote
Usage in Dublin addresses
Colloquially, Dubliners refer to the area as "Dublin 4" or "D4".<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The postal district forms the first part of numerous seven digit Eircodes that are unique to every single address in the area. For addressing purposes, it appears in both its original form as Dublin 4 and as the first part of a seven digit postal code as D04 a line below.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> For example:
The Embassy of Switzerland 6 Ailesbury Road Dublin 4 D04 W205
Gallery
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An Edwardian-era home on Clyde Road, D4. -
Herbert Park, Ballsbridge, D4 -
The US embassy to Ireland is located in D4. -
The decorative frontage of large D4 townhouses -
Apartments near the River Dodder
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