DublinTravel Guide

Ireland's oldest university, home to the Long Room library and the 9th-century illuminated Book of Kells — book a timed ticket in advance, it sells out daily in peak season.

Dublin's cobbled cultural quarter, best known for its red-fronted pub of the same name — genuinely touristy but still worth a pint, ideally at a quieter neighbouring pub instead.

A seven-storey former fermentation plant shaped like a giant pint glass, tracing 250+ years of brewing history, ending with a pint at the rooftop Gravity Bar overlooking the city.

Ireland's largest cathedral, founded in 1191, with ties to Jonathan Swift (author of Gulliver's Travels), who served as dean here and is buried inside.

Dublin's premier pedestrian shopping street, usually filled with buskers — often the first stop for visitors staying near St Stephen's Green.

A former prison central to Irish independence history, where leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising were executed — one of the country's most moving historical sites.

One of the largest enclosed city parks in Europe, more than twice the size of New York's Central Park, home to a herd of wild fallow deer roaming freely.

An elegant cast-iron pedestrian bridge over the Liffey, named for the toll once charged to cross it — one of Dublin's most photographed spots.

The former seat of British rule in Ireland for over 700 years, now used for state functions — the State Apartments and undercroft (revealing the original Viking settlement) are open to visitors.

Dublin's oldest building, founded in 1030, with atmospheric medieval crypts holding an infamous mummified cat and rat found in an organ pipe.