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Top 10 Things To Do in Dublin

Country
Ireland
Best months
May · Jun · Sep
Population
1.5M
Language
English
Budget / day
€120–230
Quick answer

Give the first morning to Trinity College and the Book of Kells, then walk ten minutes to the National Museum on Kildare Street, which is free and holds the gold and the bog bodies. Day two goes west: Kilmainham Gaol on a pre-booked ticket, then the Guinness Storehouse. Day three is Phoenix Park and Glasnevin, or the DART out to Howth.

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Dublin is a small capital that behaves like a large one. Almost everything a visitor wants sits inside a square mile between two canals. The Vikings founded it on the black pool where the Poddle meets the Liffey, the Georgians gave it the doorways, and the twentieth century gave it the arguments.

The 10 best things to do in Dublin

The Book of Kells and the Long Room, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
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The Book of Kells and the Long Room, Trinity College

Library· College Green, Dublin 2

Four gospels in Latin, written and painted around the year 800, of which two volumes sit under glass with a page turned every few weeks. The visit runs on into the barrel-vaulted Long Room. Entry is timed and non-refundable, so buy the week before, and take the first slot: the crowd doubles by eleven.

Time1 hour
CostTicketed, book online
Best atThe first slot of the morning
TipEntry is timed and online booking is strongly recommended
↗ Trinity College DublinMap
Kilmainham Gaol Museum, Dublin, Ireland
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Kilmainham Gaol Museum

History· Inchicore Road, Kilmainham, Dublin 8

Open from 1796 to 1924, and in between it held most of the people Irish history is named after. The lit Victorian east wing is the image that travels; the older west wing, cold and low and unlit, is the part that lands. Book the moment your dates are fixed: this is the hardest ticket in Dublin.

Time90 minutes
CostTicketed, book online
Best atThe first tour of the day
TipThe museum is open 10:30 to 17:15 from October to March and 10:30 to 17:45 from April to September
↗ Kilmainham Gaol MuseumMap
3

National Museum of Ireland, Archaeology

Museum· Kildare Street, Dublin 2, D02 FH48

The best free hour in Dublin, and the one most visitors skip. The gold room holds Bronze Age collars pulled out of bogs by farmers who had no idea what they had, and Kingship and Sacrifice holds four Iron Age bog bodies, preserved to the fingerprint. Nothing to pay either way.

Time1 to 2 hours
CostFree
Best atWeekday mornings
TipOpen Tuesday to Saturday 10:00 to 17:00 and Sunday and Monday 13:00 to 17:00
↗ National Museum of IrelandMap
Guinness Storehouse, Dublin, Ireland
4

Guinness Storehouse

Brewery· St James's Gate, Dublin 8, D08 VF8H

Arthur Guinness took a 9,000-year lease at St James's Gate in 1759, and the brewery has been there since. Seven floors inside a 1904 fermentation plant, working up to the Gravity Bar, where the pint is included and the view runs to the Wicklow Mountains. Book online and take the earliest slot you can stand.

Time2 hours
CostTicketed
Best atOpening time
TipOpen Monday to Friday 10:00 to 19:00 and Sunday 10:00 to 19:00 with last admission at 17:00
↗ Guinness StorehouseMap
Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland
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Phoenix Park

Park· Phoenix Park, Dublin 8

The largest enclosed park in any European capital, laid out as a royal deer park in the 1660s. The fallow deer are still here, usually near the Papal Cross in late afternoon, and they are wild animals rather than an attraction. Walk in at Parkgate Street and out at Castleknock without meeting a shop.

Time2 to 3 hours
CostFree
Best atLate afternoon
TipThe Victorian walled kitchen garden beside the Phoenix Park Visitor Centre is open daily 10:00 to 17:00. Dublin Zoo inside the park is separately ticketed. The park takes about 10 million visits a year and still absorbs them, but the Chapelizod Gate end is always the quiet one.
↗ Phoenix ParkMap
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland (Wimup)
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National Gallery of Ireland

Museum· Merrion Square West, Dublin 2

Free, central, and holding one painting that would justify the trip alone: Caravaggio's The Taking of Christ, lost for two centuries and identified in 1990 in a Jesuit dining room a mile away. Around it, Vermeer, Goya and the Yeats rooms, the closest thing Irish art has to a national voice.

Time1 to 2 hours
CostFree
Best atThursday evening
TipOpen seven days: first admission 09:15 Tuesday to Saturday and 11:00 on Sunday and Monday
↗ National Gallery of IrelandMap
7

EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum

Museum· CHQ, Custom House Quay, Dublin 1

Ten million people left this island, and the museum about them sits in the vaults of an 1820s warehouse on the quay many sailed from. There is no object in it: twenty galleries of projection and sound. The better choice for anyone travelling with teenagers or a family name to chase down.

Time90 minutes
CostTicketed
Best atLate afternoon
TipOpen seven days 10:00 to 18:45 with last entry at 17:00
↗ EPIC The Irish Emigration MuseumMap
St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland (Wimup)
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St Patrick's Cathedral

Landmark· St Patrick's Close, Dublin 8

Founded in 1191 and the largest church in Ireland. Jonathan Swift was dean here, wrote Gulliver's Travels while he held the job, and is buried in the nave. Choral evensong is the way to see it without paying and with the acoustic doing the work.

Time45 minutes
CostTicketed
Best atEvensong on a weekday
TipOpening times move with services
↗ St Patrick's CathedralMap
Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland (Wimup)
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GAA Museum and Croke Park stadium tour

Sport· Croke Park, Jones' Road, Dublin 3

Ireland's largest stadium, filled several times a summer by amateurs playing two sports almost nobody outside the island plays. The museum explains hurling well enough to follow a match, and it does not skirt 1920, when British forces fired into the crowd here. If a championship match is on, go to that instead.

Time90 minutes
CostTicketed, book online
Best atA non-match weekday
TipBooking in advance online is essential and walk-ups are not accepted
↗ Croke ParkMap
Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, Ireland
10

Glasnevin Cemetery

History· Finglas Road, Glasnevin, Dublin 11

The national cemetery, opened in 1832, and the best place to understand two centuries of Irish politics, because everybody who argued about them is here. Take the guided tour rather than wandering: the plots are unremarkable and the argument between them is the point. The pub at the gate has served mourners since 1833.

Time2 hours
CostTicketed tours, grounds free
Best atMorning, on the first tour
TipThe visitor centre opens at 10:00 Wednesday to Sunday and tours run daily
↗ Dublin Cemeteries TrustMap

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Dublin travel FAQ

How many days do you need in Dublin?+
Three. Day one is Trinity, the National Museum and the National Gallery, all within ten minutes of each other. Day two goes west to Kilmainham Gaol, IMMA and the Guinness Storehouse. Day three is Phoenix Park and Glasnevin, or the DART to Howth.
What do you need to book before you arrive?+
Kilmainham Gaol above everything: it is guided tour only, every visitor needs a pre-booked ticket, and tickets are released 28 days ahead at midnight Irish time. The Book of Kells is timed entry and worth booking a week out. Croke Park does not accept walk-ups. The free national museums and galleries need nothing.
What is the cheapest way to get around Dublin?+
A TFI Leap card. The TFI 90 minute fare is €2.00 for an adult and covers city buses, both Luas lines, the DART and commuter rail inside Zone 1, with every journey after the first free if you tap on within 90 minutes. Cash fares cost more and drivers carry no change. Most of the centre is walkable in any case.
How do you get from Dublin Airport into the city?+
By road, because there is no rail or tram link. City bus routes take a Leap fare, express coaches run to the centre in about half an hour, and taxis queue outside both terminals. Allow more time than the distance suggests: the approach roads are the busiest in the country.
When is the best time to visit Dublin?+
May, June and September. Long days, mid to high teens, and a busy festival calendar without the March or Christmas price spikes. It rains in every month, usually briefly, so the plan is a jacket rather than a different month. Mid-March is the exception in both directions.
Where to drink

Best pubs & bars in Dublin (2026)

Eight rooms that were here before the stag parties, from Victorian snugs to the city's trad institution.
South Great George's Street

The Long Hall

Victorian bar

A Victorian bar barely touched since the 1880s: carved mahogany, red velvet, clocks that disagree. No music, no screens, and conversation is possible on a Friday.

Map
South Anne Street

Kehoe's

Snug

The classic Dublin snug, a wooden box with its own hatch to the bar. Upstairs is the old publican's flat, and where to go when the bar is three deep.

Map
Fleet Street

The Palace Bar

Whiskey

The journalists' pub, a Victorian room with a skylit back parlour where the Irish Times crowd drank for a century. A serious whiskey list and its own bottlings.

Map
Poolbeg Street

Mulligan's of Poolbeg Street

The pint

Established 1782, unrenovated on principle, and long claimed to pour the best pint in Dublin by people who will argue for an hour. A pint takes as long as it takes.

Map
South William Street

Grogan's Castle Lounge

Art and toasties

A pub that doubles as a gallery, with paintings by regulars on every wall and a toasted cheese sandwich that is an institution in its own right.

Map
The CobblestoneSmithfield

The Cobblestone

Trad sessions

A self-described drinking pub with a music problem, in Smithfield, and the reference point for traditional music here. Sit down, and do not talk over the tunes.

Map
Glasnevin

John Kavanagh, The Gravediggers

Old pub

At the wall of Glasnevin since 1833 and run by the same family throughout, with no music, no television and no interest in changing. Pair it with the cemetery tour.

Map
Baggot Street

Toner's

Beer garden

A Baggot Street bar with the original shelving from its grocer days, a proper snug, and a back yard that works in every weather Dublin has.

Map
What to see indoors

Best museums & galleries in Dublin

Eight collections beyond the Top 10, most of them free, for the days the weather decides for you.
Dublin Castle

Chester Beatty

Free · manuscripts

A mining magnate's manuscripts given to the state: Qur'ans, jade books and some of the earliest New Testament papyri, in the grounds of Dublin Castle.

↗ WebsiteMap
Irish Museum of Modern ArtKilmainham

Irish Museum of Modern Art

Free · contemporary art

The national modern collection, in the 1680s Royal Hospital Kilmainham, modelled on Les Invalides. The formal gardens are free whether or not you go in.

↗ WebsiteMap
Hugh Lane GalleryParnell Square

Hugh Lane Gallery

Free · Bacon studio

A municipal gallery on Parnell Square, holding the Impressionists Hugh Lane left the city and the entire contents of Francis Bacon's studio, moved here dust by dust.

↗ WebsiteMap
Collins Barracks

National Museum of Ireland, Decorative Arts and History

Free · design and history

The Collins Barracks branch, covering Irish silver, furniture and the military history of the state, including a hard-headed exhibition on 1916. Free.

↗ WebsiteMap
Natural History MuseumMerrion Street

Natural History Museum

Free · Victorian museum

Known to everyone as the Dead Zoo: a Victorian cabinet museum deliberately not modernised, with giant Irish deer downstairs. The most atmospheric hour here.

↗ WebsiteMap
Henrietta Street

14 Henrietta Street

Guided tour · tenement history

One house on Dublin's grandest Georgian street, taken from townhouse to tenement holding a hundred people in seventeen rooms. The most affecting hour on this list.

↗ WebsiteMap
St Stephen's Green

Museum of Literature Ireland

Ticketed · Joyce

MoLI, in the house on St Stephen's Green where Joyce took his degree, holding the first copy of Ulysses off the press. A good lunch in the garden café.

↗ WebsiteMap
DubliniaChrist Church

Dublinia

Ticketed · with kids

The Viking and medieval city reconstructed room by room beside Christ Church, pitched at families. The ticket includes the bridge to the cathedral and the tower climb.

↗ WebsiteMap
Where to eat

Best restaurants in Dublin (2026)

Eight tables across every price, from a Michelin dining room on Parnell Square to a chipper that opened in 1913.
Parnell Square

Chapter One by Mickael Viljanen

Michelin-starred · tasting menu

The city's benchmark fine-dining room, cooking Irish produce through French technique with a famous hand for sauce. Book weeks out, or take the lunch menu.

↗ WebsiteMap
Thomas Street

Variety Jones

Michelin-starred · live fire

A small Michelin-starred room on Thomas Street cooking most of its menu over live fire, with a bar counter facing the flames. Pleasantly unceremonious.

↗ WebsiteMap
Portobello

Bastible

Modern Irish · set menu

A neighbourhood restaurant on the South Circular Road named after the pot its bread is baked in, doing a short seasonal menu. The sourdough course is not a throwaway.

↗ WebsiteMap
Ormond Quay

The Winding Stair

Irish · river view

Above the bookshop of the same name, with tall windows over the Ha'penny Bridge and a menu of farmhouse cheese, fish from the west and brown bread.

↗ WebsiteMap
Merrion Row

Etto

Wine bar · Italian leaning

A narrow wine bar and restaurant on Merrion Row, ten years into a reputation for Italian-leaning cooking and small-producer wines. Lunch is the value.

↗ WebsiteMap
Aungier Street

Uno Mas

Spanish · counter seats

Spanish cooking on Aungier Street from the Etto team, built around a plancha and a sherry list. Sit at the counter if the tables are gone, which they will be.

↗ WebsiteMap
Smithfield

Fish Shop

Seafood · small room

A tiny room in Smithfield doing what its name says, with a blackboard that depends on the boats and a short natural wine list. Book.

↗ WebsiteMap
Werburgh Street

Leo Burdock

Fish and chips · since 1913

Trading since 1913 and the chipper every Dubliner argues about, a few steps from Christ Church. Cod and chips on the wall outside is a respectable dinner here.

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Where the arguments happened

Historic sites in Dublin worth an hour

Six places, Viking to 1916, that fill in what the Top 10 leaves out.
Dame Street

Dublin Castle

Ticketed apartments · free courtyards

The seat of British rule for seven centuries, handed over in 1922, and now a state complex you can walk into free. Only the State Apartments are ticketed.

↗ WebsiteMap
Christ Church CathedralChrist Church Place

Christ Church Cathedral

Ticketed · Viking foundation

Founded around 1030 by a Norse king and rebuilt hard by the Victorians, with the largest crypt in Britain or Ireland and a mummified cat found in an organ pipe.

↗ WebsiteMap
O'Connell Street

GPO Museum, Witness History

Ticketed · 1916

Inside the General Post Office, where the Proclamation was read in Easter week 1916. The columns outside still carry the bullet marks.

Map
Marsh's LibrarySt Patrick's Close

Marsh's Library

Ticketed · 1707 interior

Opened in 1707 as the first public library in Ireland and effectively unchanged: dark oak stalls, chained books, and alcoves where readers were locked in.

↗ WebsiteMap
St Michan's ChurchChurch Street

St Michan's Church

Ticketed · crypt tour

A north quays church whose limestone vaults have mummified their occupants, so the tour is a walk between open coffins. Handel is said to have practised on the organ.

Map
Casino at MarinoMarino

Casino at Marino

Guided tour · Georgian folly

A 1770s folly that looks like a single-room temple and holds sixteen rooms over three floors, with hidden chimneys and columns that drain the roof. Guided tour only.

↗ WebsiteMap
Where to walk

Parks & coast around Dublin

Six green and salt-water escapes, all reachable on a €2 fare from the city centre.
St Stephen's GreenSt Stephen's Green

St Stephen's Green

Free · city park

Nine hectares of Victorian park at the top of Grafton Street, opened in 1880 with Guinness money. Office Dublin eats lunch on the grass the moment the sun appears.

↗ WebsiteMap
Clonmel Street

Iveagh Gardens

Free · quiet garden

The secret garden behind the Green, through a lane off Clonmel Street, with a cascade and a rose garden most visitors never find. Free, and empty.

↗ WebsiteMap
Howth Cliff Path LoopHowth

Howth Cliff Path Loop

Free · coastal walk

A signed loop around the head of the peninsula, on cliffs above the Irish Sea with Ireland's Eye offshore. Two hours at the shortest option, then fish at the harbour.

↗ WebsiteMap
Bull Island and Dollymount StrandClontarf

Bull Island and Dollymount Strand

Free · beach and biosphere

A five-kilometre sandy island thrown up behind a sea wall built to stop the port silting, now a UNESCO biosphere with brent geese and seals.

↗ WebsiteMap
Dún Laoghaire East PierDún Laoghaire

Dún Laoghaire East Pier

Free · pier walk

A granite Victorian pier a kilometre into the bay, with a bandstand halfway and a lighthouse at the end, walked by half the south side every Sunday.

↗ WebsiteMap
Irish National War Memorial GardensIslandbridge

Irish National War Memorial Gardens

Free · Lutyens gardens

Lutyens laid these terraces for the 49,400 Irish dead of the First World War, and the state let them go to ruin because the memory was inconvenient. Almost always empty.

↗ WebsiteMap
Where to base yourself

Dublin neighbourhoods worth your time

Six districts and what each one is actually for, including the one to visit and not sleep in.
Temple BarDublin 2

Temple Bar

Central · loud after dark

The cobbled quarter between Dame Street and the river: a cultural district by day, a very expensive drinking street by night. Walk it in the morning.

Map
Dublin 8

The Liberties

Historic · distilleries

The old brewing and distilling quarter west of the centre, outside the medieval walls and proud of it. Guinness, Teeling, and the best of the new restaurants.

Map
StoneybatterDublin 7

Stoneybatter

Independent shops · coffee

A grid of small red-brick terraces north of the river, now the coffee and independent-shop district without having lost its old pubs. Ten minutes to Phoenix Park.

Map
Dublin 8

Portobello

Canalside · restaurants

Along the Grand Canal south of the centre, with the towpath, Victorian terraces and bars around Richmond Street. Kavanagh has a bench on the canal here.

Map
Dublin 6

Ranelagh

Village · dining

A leafy Victorian suburb four Luas stops out, with more good restaurants per hundred metres than anywhere in the city and no tourists in any of them.

Map
Grand Canal DockDublin 2

Grand Canal Dock

Modern · waterfront

The docklands rebuilt in glass around a Victorian basin, with the theatre, the tech offices and a waterside square. The shortest walk to the 3Arena and EPIC.

Map
Out of the city

Best day trips from Dublin

Six trips, four of them on a train or a bus you can board without booking.
HowthNorth county

Howth

DART · 30 minutes

A working fishing harbour and a cliff walk half an hour up the DART, with seals in the harbour and fish restaurants at the pier. The easiest good day out from Dublin.

↗ WebsiteMap
GlendaloughCounty Wicklow

Glendalough

Bus or car · 1.5 hours

A sixth-century monastic city in a glacial valley in the Wicklow Mountains, with a round tower and two lakes. Inside a national park, so the site is free.

↗ WebsiteMap
County Meath

Brú na Bóinne

Car or tour · 1 hour

Newgrange and Knowth, passage tombs older than the pyramids at Giza. Access is only by shuttle from the visitor centre and tickets sell out, so book ahead.

↗ WebsiteMap
Malahide Castle and GardensNorth county

Malahide Castle and Gardens

DART · 25 minutes

Eight hundred years of one family in one castle, with a walled garden and 260 acres of parkland, twenty-five minutes up the coastal line.

↗ WebsiteMap
Powerscourt EstateCounty Wicklow

Powerscourt Estate

Bus or car · 1 hour

A Palladian house above Italianate terraces in the Wicklow foothills, with the highest waterfall in Ireland a few kilometres away. Best in early summer.

↗ WebsiteMap
South county

Dalkey and Killiney Hill

DART · 35 minutes

The far end of the DART line: a village with a Norman castle on the main street, and a hill walk onto a bay people insist on comparing to Naples.

↗ WebsiteMap
What's on

Festivals & annual events in Dublin (2026)

Time your trip around the city's biggest dates.
Late January

TradFest

Ireland's largest traditional music festival, using city churches, Dublin Castle and the pubs as venues. Pub sessions are free.

14 to 17 March 2026

St Patrick's Festival

Four days across the city, ending with the national parade at midday on 17 March. Free and unticketed, down O'Connell Street.

11 to 16 June 2026

Bloomsday Festival

A week of readings, walks and Edwardian costume around 16 June 1904, the single day of Ulysses. More than a hundred events.

Late June

Dublin Pride

The parade fills O'Connell Street and the quays and ends in a free open-air party. Central hotels price up for the weekend.

5 to 9 August 2026

Dublin Horse Show

Five days of showjumping at the RDS since 1864, with the Aga Khan Nations Cup as the set piece. Ballsbridge fills months ahead.

July

All-Ireland finals at Croke Park

The hurling and football finals in front of more than 80,000. Tickets go to clubs first, so a pub with the match on is the plan.

24 September to 11 October 2026

Dublin Theatre Festival

Founded in 1957 and the oldest in Europe, filling the Abbey, the Gate and a dozen smaller rooms. Headline tickets go in summer.

Late October

Irish Life Dublin Marathon

The Sunday of the October bank holiday, through the Georgian squares and Phoenix Park. Entry is by ballot months ahead.

Getting around

Dublin transport & airports

How to arrive and move around the city.
DUB

Dublin Airport

About 10 km north, and the thing to know is that there is no rail or tram link. Buses do all of it, from city routes on a Leap fare to express coaches reaching the centre in half an hour.

↗ Dublin AirportMap
Rail

Luas trams and the DART

Two tram lines crossing in the centre, and the DART, the electric coastal line, which is the most useful train in Ireland for a visitor: Howth north, Dalkey and Bray south, on a bus fare.

↗ Transport for Ireland↗ Irish RailMap
Bus

Buses and the Leap card

Buy a TFI Leap card and stop thinking about fares: the 90 minute fare is €2.00 across bus, Luas, DART and commuter rail in Zone 1, with later journeys free inside the window.

↗ TFI Leap Card↗ Dublin BusMap
Taxi

Taxis, bikes and walking

The centre is small: Trinity to the Guinness Storehouse is a 25 minute walk. Taxis are metered and plentiful except at closing time on a Friday. Dublinbikes covers the centre.

↗ Visit Dublin, getting aroundMap
Traditional food

Must-try dishes in Dublin, Ireland

The classics to order before you leave.
Irish stew, Dublin (Wimup travel guide)

Irish stew

Mutton or lamb, potato and onion, cooked long and seasoned lightly. Whether carrots belong is unresolved.

Seafood chowder, Dublin (Wimup travel guide)

Seafood chowder

Smoked haddock, salmon, mussels and potato in cream. The good ones taste of the smoke rather than the cream.

Dublin Bay prawns, Dublin (Wimup travel guide)

Dublin Bay prawns

Langoustines from the bay the city is named for, served with garlic butter. Most of the catch is exported.

Brown soda bread, Dublin (Wimup travel guide)

Brown soda bread

Wholemeal, leavened with bicarbonate and buttermilk rather than yeast. Dense, faintly sour, good with chowder.

The full Irish breakfast, Dublin (Wimup travel guide)

The full Irish breakfast

Bacon, sausage, egg, tomato and both puddings. Eaten properly it replaces lunch, which is the point.

Oysters and stout, Dublin (Wimup travel guide)

Oysters and stout

A pairing the city has made a habit of, and the bitterness does what it claims. Autumn and winter.

Dublin coddle

Sausages, rashers, onion and potato simmered pale in stock. Exactly what a wet January evening wants.

Spice bag

Chips, salt-and-chilli chicken, peppers and onion tossed in a bag. The national late-night dish.

Dublin fact sheet

Dublin at a glance

The essentials worth knowing before you go.
Country
Ireland
Region
Leinster · the east coast, on Dublin Bay
Population
1,458,154 in County Dublin at the 2022 census, up 8 per cent in six years
Founded
A Viking longphort on the Liffey from 841
Nickname
The Fair City, from the song. In Irish it is Baile Átha Cliath, the town of the hurdled ford
Language
English, with Irish as the first official language and on every road sign
Currency
Euro (EUR)
Time zone
GMT (UTC+0), Irish Standard Time (UTC+1) from late March to late October
Calling code
+353 1
Airports
DUB
Power
230V · Type G, the same three-pin plug as the UK
Emergency
112 or 999
Ideal length
3 days
Getting around
A centre small enough to walk, two Luas tram lines, the DART along the coast and buses on a €2 Leap fare
Tourism board
Official site

Interesting facts

  • Phoenix Park covers 707 hectares, the largest enclosed park in any European capital. It was fenced as a royal deer park in the 1660s.
  • Arthur Guinness signed a 9,000 year lease at St James's Gate in 1759 at £45 a year. It is framed on the ground floor of the Storehouse.
  • Dublin has been a UNESCO City of Literature since 2010, and its most famous novel is a walking route read out loud in public every 16 June.
  • Trinity College was founded in 1592, and the manuscript in its Old Library was made around the year 800, eight centuries earlier.
  • North Bull Island is an accident, built up behind a sea wall raised to stop the port silting, and now the core of a UNESCO biosphere.

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