Dublin Zoo

This guide to Dublin Zoo traces the story of a lion cub named Cairbre, born here in March 1919, one of hundreds bred at a time when this zoo, almost alone among its rivals, had cracked the trick of breeding lions reliably in captivity. You'll hear about the Dublin scientist who traced the secret to an unusual diet, and about the film designer, a fellow Dubliner, who later spotted this particular cub and carried him off to America. Look for the enclosures where, long before any of that, an ordinary cub was simply born.