Places to visit in Dublin

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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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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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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

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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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Irish Whiskey Museum

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Fusiliers' Arch

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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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St Stephen's Green

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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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St Stephen’s Green

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Fusiliers' Arch

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Irish Whiskey Museum

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St Stephen’s Green

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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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Millennium Child

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Dublin Castle

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St. Audoen's Park

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St Patrick's Cathedral

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Pearse Lyons Whiskey Distillery

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St. Patrick's Tower

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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

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The Little Museum of Dublin

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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 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…