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.
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.
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.
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.
Garden of Remembrance
Parnell Square East, Rotunda B, Dublin 1, Ireland
This quiet memorial garden at the north end of Parnell Square is dedicated to everyone who died in the cause of Irish freedom, and the ground it sits on has earned that dedication several times over.
General Post Office (GPO)
O'Connell Street Lower, North City, Dublin 1, Ireland
This is where modern Ireland was born.
Glasnevin Cemetery
Finglas Road, Botanic A, Dublin 9, Ireland
Ireland's national cemetery began as an act of defiance.
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.
Kilmainham Gaol
Inchicore Road, Kilmainham B, Dublin 8, Ireland
Every major chapter of Ireland's fight for independence played out behind these walls.
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.
National Museum of Ireland - Archaeology
Kildare Street, Dublin 2
This museum contains the finest collection of Celtic gold in the world, and it won't cost you a cent to see it.
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.
Phoenix Park
Phoenix Park, Dublin 8
At 707 hectares, Phoenix Park is the largest enclosed urban park in Europe — more than twice the size of New York's Central Park.
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.
St Stephen's Green
St Stephen's Green, Dublin 2
This elegant 22-acre park at the top of Grafton Street has had more reinventions than a pop star.
The Brazen Head
20 Lower Bridge Street, Dublin 8
Dublin's oldest pub has been pouring pints since 1198, which means people have been getting drunk on this exact spot for over 800 years.
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.
Whitefriar Street Church
Aungier Street, Dublin 2
Dublin is the last place you'd expect to find the remains of St.
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