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Love Lane
Love Lane is a small pedestrian passage in Dublin's Temple Bar district, officially known as Crampton Court, connecting Dame Street to Essex Street East. It's one of the city's hidden gems, transformed from a neglected a…
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Temple Bar Pub
The Temple Bar is Dublin's most famous pub, sitting right in the heart of the district that shares its name. With its bright red facade and flower boxes, it's one of the most photographed buildings in Ireland. The pub t…
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Fusilier's Arch
Standing at the entrance to St Stephen's Green, Fusilier's Arch commemorates the officers and soldiers of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers who died in the Second Boer War. Erected in 1907 and designed by architect John Howard …
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Whitefriar Street Church
Whitefriar Street Church holds one of the most unexpected relics in Christendom: the bones and a vessel of blood attributed to Saint Valentine, the patron saint of lovers. How the remains of a 3rd-century Roman martyr en…
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Ha'penny Bridge
Built in May 1816, the Ha'penny Bridge was the first dedicated footbridge over the River Liffey and the first iron bridge in Ireland. Before it existed, Dubliners relied on ferries to cross the river, a service that was …
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Oscar Wilde House
Oscar Wilde's childhood home at 1 Merrion Square is where one of literature's greatest wits spent his formative years. Born at 21 Westland Row in 1854, his family moved to this prestigious address the following year, and…
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The Brazen Head
The Brazen Head claims to be Ireland's oldest pub, with a hostelry existing on this site since 1198, though the present building dates to 1754. The first license to sell ale was recorded in 1661, and the earliest mention…
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St. Patrick's Cathedral
Saint Patrick is said to have baptized converts at a well on this very site in the 5th century, and that ancient connection to Ireland's patron saint gives the cathedral a spiritual significance that runs deeper than its…
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Guinness Storehouse
The Guinness Storehouse at St. James's Gate Brewery has welcomed over twenty million visitors since opening on December 2, 2000, making it one of Ireland's most popular attractions and a pilgrimage site for beer lovers w…
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Kilmainham Gaol
Kilmainham Gaol is one of the most powerful historical sites in Ireland, a former prison where the struggle for Irish independence reached its most tragic and transformative moments. Built in 1796 as the "New Gaol," the …
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Trinity College Dublin
Founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I, Trinity College is Ireland's oldest university and home to one of the world's most famous manuscripts: the Book of Kells. The illuminated Gospel book, created around 800 AD, was like…
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Christchurch Cathedral
Christ Church Cathedral has stood at the heart of Dublin since around 1030, when Dunnan, the first bishop of Dublin, and Sitriuc, the Norse king, founded the original structure. It is one of the oldest buildings in Dubli…
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The Shelbourne Hotel
The Shelbourne has been Dublin's grandest hotel since Martin Burke, a native of County Tipperary, founded it in 1824 on St. Stephen's Green. Burke created the hotel from three adjoining townhouses and named it after Will…
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National Museum of Ireland
The National Museum of Ireland spreads across multiple sites in Dublin, each telling a different chapter of the island's story. Best of all, admission to every branch is completely free, making Ireland's cultural heritag…
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Irish Whiskey Museum
The Irish Whiskey Museum is a small independent museum on Grafton Street in Dublin, directly across from the main entrance of Trinity College. It opened in 2014 and tells the story of Irish whiskey, from its early days t…
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Molly Malone Statue
Unveiled during Dublin's 1988 Millennium celebrations, the bronze statue of Molly Malone depicts the legendary fishmonger from the famous ballad, pushing her wheelbarrow through the streets of the city. Created by artist…
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Merrion Square Park
Merrion Square is one of Dublin's best-preserved Georgian squares, ringed by brick townhouses with brightly painted doors. In the northwest corner Oscar Wilde lounges on a boulder in coloured stone, wearing a distinctly …
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Fusiliers' Arch
Fusiliers' Arch is the granite gateway at the north-west corner of St Stephen's Green in Dublin, at the top of Grafton Street. It was built as a memorial to the Royal Dublin Fusiliers who died in the Second Boer War, and…
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St Stephen's Green
St Stephen's Green is a landscaped public park in the centre of Dublin, entered from the top of Grafton Street through the granite Fusiliers' Arch. It began as common ground at the edge of the medieval city and has been …
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Kildare St
Kildare Street runs past the Irish parliament at Leinster House, with the National Museum and the National Library facing each other on either side of it. Two of Dublin's best free collections sit within a few doors of o…
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Grafton Street
Grafton Street is Dublin's main pedestrian shopping street, and its buskers are as much a fixture as the shops. It runs from Trinity College down to St Stephen's Green, with the Molly Malone statue at the top end.
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Millennium Child
Millennium Child is a stop on the Cross Lane South side of Dublin, in the old part of the city around Christ Church Cathedral and Wood Quay. It is worth a pause because the streets here sit on some of the oldest layers o…
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Dublin Castle
Dublin Castle is a complex of medieval and Georgian buildings on Dame Street in Dublin, and for centuries it was the seat of English and then British rule in Ireland. Today it is a state venue where Irish presidents are …
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St. Audoen's Park
St. Audoen's Park is a small green space on High Street in Dublin, set against a surviving stretch of the medieval city wall. It sits beside St Audoen's Church and St Audoen's Arch, which makes it one of the best places …
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Pearse Lyons Whiskey Distillery
Pearse Lyons Distillery is a working Irish whiskey distillery set inside the restored St James's Church on James's Street in Dublin 8. The church has medieval roots as a stop for pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago, and t…
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St. Patrick's Tower
St Patrick's Tower is a tall stone windmill tower on Thomas Street West in the Liberties, Dublin, built in 1757 for George Roe's distillery. Standing about 40 metres high, it is one of the tallest structures in the area …
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St Patrick’s Park
St Patrick's Park is the small green beside Dublin's St Patrick's Cathedral, with a literary parade of plaques honouring Irish writers along one walk. It is the best place to see the cathedral's full length.
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Teeling Whiskey Distillery
Teeling Whiskey Distillery is a working Irish whiskey distillery on Newmarket in the Liberties, Dublin. Opened in 2015, it was the first new distillery in the city in about 125 years, and it brought whiskey making back t…
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The Little Museum of Dublin
The Little Museum of Dublin is a small museum in a Georgian townhouse at 15 St Stephen's Green, Dublin. It tells the story of the city through everyday objects given by Dublin people, which makes it one of the friendlies…
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The Oscar Wilde Monument
The Oscar Wilde memorial in Merrion Square shows the writer sprawled on a quartz boulder in coloured stone, with a deliberately lopsided expression that changes depending on which side you stand. The pillars opposite car…
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Romantic Dublin: Cupid’s Quest Walking Tour & Escape Game
47 min · EN
Places on this quest: Oscar Wilde House · Ha'penny Bridge
The Haunting File: Dublin - What the Old City Burned
EN
Places on this quest: St. Audoen's Park · The Brazen Head
The Time Keeper - Dublin
75 min · EN
Places on this quest: The Shelbourne Hotel · Fusilier's Arch
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