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Some of the best things to do in Dublin

trinity college
Located right bang in the middle of the city centre, Trinity College Dublin is one of the city’s most famous and popular attractions. Trinity is a university of over 16,000 students. It is regarded as Irelands’ premier educational institution, and can count many famous alumni as part of its...
Dublin Castle, Ireland
We love Dublin Castle and its one of our top recommendations for you to do on any trip to Dublin. It’s located centrally about half way down Dame Street. Once the centre of British Rule it is now used by the Irish Government for state occasions after it was...
Ireland National Gallery is recognised as one of Europe’s best small museums with a broad collection of Irish painting and it is also notable for its Dutch masters and Italian Baroque painting. It total there are about 14,000 artworks in the gallery. As you enter the Millennium Wing (opened in...
Irelands National Museum is located on Kildare Street. Established in 1877 to record and host Ireland’s historical treasures, it has become Ireland’s most important cultural institution. Some of the country’s most important items such the Ardagh Chalice and Tara Brooch make up one of Europe’s most important collection of...
Kilmainham Gaol (formally a prison) is now a museum where leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising were imprisoned and executed by the British. Built in 1796 there was no segregation of prisoners by neither gender nor age with up to 5 persons allocated to each cell. Up till the...
Covid19
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Situated in one of the oldest parts of Dublin on high ground is Christ Church Cathedral. A place of worship and pilgrimage for nearly 1,000 years it’s also now one of Dublin’s top tourist attractions. Although nominally the seat of both the Protestant and Catholic archbishops of Dublin, in...
Dublinia Viking Museum
The Dublinia Viking Museum focuses on Dublin's rich Viking and Medieval past. It is located in the Christ Church area which formed the centre of the Viking settlement in Dublin. The focus of this museum is very much on having an interactive and immersive experience. See how the Vikings...
The eclectic Farmleigh House is the official government ‘guesthouse’ where foreign dignitaries will typically stay if they are in Ireland for any length of time. It is located on an estate of 78 acres in the Phoenix Park on the outskirts of Dublin and was formally the residence of...
Teeling Distillery, Dublin
The Teeling Distillery was established in 2015 in Dublin. It is the first distillery to open in Dublin in 125 years. This is unusual given that Dublin was once the whiskey capital of the world. However the emergence of Scotch whiskey, and other factors, led to a decline in...