13 Stunning Architecture Landmarks in Dublin
13 landmarks with verified facts and stories
Christ Church Cathedral
Christchurch Place, Wood Quay A, Dublin 8, Ireland
A Viking king built the original version of this cathedral in 1030, which tells you just how long Dublin has been arguing about religion.
Dublin Castle
Dame Street, Royal Exchange A, Dublin 2, Ireland
For over 700 years, this was the seat of British power in Ireland, and almost nobody in Ireland wanted it to be.
Four Courts
Inns Quay, Inns Quay C, Dublin 7, Ireland
The Four Courts is where Irish law has been argued and decided for over two centuries, and it's also where a thousand years of Irish records went up in smoke during a single catastrophic afternoon.
General Post Office (GPO)
O'Connell Street Lower, North City, Dublin 1, Ireland
This is where modern Ireland was born.
Guinness Storehouse
Saint James's Gate, Dublin 8, Ireland
Arthur Guinness was either supremely confident or completely insane when he signed the lease on this brewery in 1759.
Ha'Penny Bridge
Bachelors Walk, North City, Dublin 1, Ireland
Before this bridge existed, William Walsh operated seven ferries across the Liffey at this spot, and they were falling apart.
Marsh's Library
St Patrick's Close, Wood Quay A, Dublin 8, Ireland
When Archbishop Narcissus Marsh told his friends he planned to build a public library in Dublin in 1701, they told him he was mad — neither Oxford nor London had one.
Merrion Square
Merrion Square West, Mansion House B, Dublin 2, Ireland
Dublin's finest Georgian square was farmland 250 years ago.
O'Connell Bridge
O'Connell Bridge, Dublin 2
O'Connell Bridge holds a peculiar distinction: it's the only traffic bridge in Europe that is almost exactly as wide as it is long.
O'Connell Street & The Spire
O'Connell Street, Dublin 1
Dublin's main boulevard has been bombed, shelled, burned, and rebuilt so many times it's practically a phoenix in street form.
St Patrick's Cathedral
St Patrick's Close, Dublin 8
Ireland's largest church stands on the spot where, legend has it, Saint Patrick himself baptised converts in a well around 450 AD.
The Custom House
Custom House Quay, Dublin 1
James Gandon's neoclassical masterpiece took ten years to build and about ten hours to burn.
Trinity College
College Green, Dublin 2
Queen Elizabeth I founded this university in 1592 on the grounds of a confiscated Augustinian monastery, and for the next two hundred years it existed solely to educate Protestant gentlemen.
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