Phoenix Park is an urban park lying 2–4 km west of Dublin’s city centre and just north of the River Liffey. Its 11 km perimeter wall encloses 707 hectares, and it is one of the largest enclosed recreational spaces within any European capital city. It includes large areas of grassland and tree-lined avenues, and since […]
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Glasnevin Cemetery, which opened in 1832, originally had an area of 9 acres but now has an area of approximately 124 acres. It holds the graves and memorials of several notable figures, including Daniel O’Connell, Charles Stuart Parnell, Constance Markievicz, Roger Casement, Michael Collins, Eamon de Valera, Arthur Griffith, Maude Gonne, Kevin Barry, Sean McBride,
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Christ Church Cathedral is located in the former heart of medieval Dublin on the high ground overlooking the Viking settlement at Wood Quay at the end of Lord Edward Street. The cathedral was founded probably sometime after 1028. Henry II attended the Christmas service at the cathedral in 1171. In the 1180s, Strongbow and other Norman magnates helped to
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The National Museum of Ireland consists of three exhibitions in Dublin and one in County Mayo. The Dublin exhibitions: 1. The National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts and History. It was opened in 1997. It has a strong emphasis on national and some international archaeology, Irish history, Irish art, culture, and natural history. It is located
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The National Gallery of Ireland houses the national collection of Irish and European art. It is located in the centre of Dublin, close to St Stephen’s Green, with one entrance on Merrion Square, beside Leinster House, and another on Clare Street. The Gallery was founded in 1854 and opened its doors ten years later. It was
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The National Botanic Gardens have two sites, one in Glasnevin, Dublin, and the other in Kilmacurragh, Co Wicklow. The Glasnevin site is 5 km north of the city centre, close to Glasnevin Cemetery. Consisting of 19.5 hectares, it was founded in 1795 by the Dublin Society (later the Royal Dublin Society). It is now owned
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Kilmainham Gaol is a former Irish prison. It was opened in 1796 and decommissioned in 1924 after the Irish Civil War. It is now empty of prisoners but filled with Irish history. Originally, conditions in this prison were very poor. Each cell was dark, cold, and small. There was no segregation of prisoners, with up
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The Guinness Storehouse at St James’s Gate Brewery is Dublin’s and Ireland’s biggest tourist attraction with over 1.9 million visitors passing through its doors in 2019, and over twenty million visitors since it opened in 2000. The Storehouse covers seven floors surrounding a glass atrium shaped in the form of a pint of Guinness. At
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The college was founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth Ⅰ and was modelled on the collegiate universities of Oxford and Cambridge. It is one of the seven ancient universities of Britain and Ireland, as well as Ireland’s oldest surviving university. Trinity College is widely considered the most prestigious university in Ireland, in part due to
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