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.
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.
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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