Book of Kells
College Green, Mansion House A, Dublin 2, D02 PN40, Ireland
This is an 800-year-old manuscript that monks almost certainly got murdered over.
Dublinia
St Michael's Hill, Christchurch, Dublin 8
If you want to know what Dublin smelled like in 1050, this is the place.
EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum
Custom House Quay, Dublin 1, Ireland
Ten million people left Ireland between 1800 and 1930 — more than the island's current population — and this museum tells their story with a level of technological sophistication that earned it Europe's Leading Tourist Attraction three years running.
Fishamble Street
Fishamble Street, Wood Quay A, Dublin 8, Ireland
This narrow, unassuming street in the shadow of Christ Church Cathedral is the oldest street in Dublin — and the place where Handel's Messiah was first performed.
Grafton Street
Grafton Street, Mansion House A, Dublin 2, Ireland
Dublin's premier shopping street has been a catwalk for the city's aspirations since it was first laid out in 1708, connecting Trinity College to St.
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.
Little Museum of Dublin
15 St Stephen's Green, Mansion House B, Dublin 2, D02 Y066, Ireland
Everything in this museum was donated by Dubliners, which makes it both a history museum and a love letter from a city to itself.
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.
National Gallery of Ireland
Merrion Square West, Dublin 2
This gallery has a Caravaggio that was hiding in a Jesuit dining room for decades, and entry is completely free.
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.
Temple Bar
Temple Bar, Dublin 2
Every city has a neighborhood that tourists flock to and locals roll their eyes at, and Temple Bar is Dublin's version — though the eye-rolling is somewhat unfair.
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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