Many of the finest works from Sir Alfred Chester Beatty's priceless art collection are housed in this purpose-built museum. An Irish-American mining magnate with a passion for...

Catering to a minority religion in a country where even the majority religion has seriously fallen from favour in recent years, Christ Church, like St Patrick's, relies heavily...

More commonly known as the Adam and Eve (reportedly because, back in the days of Penal Law, forbidden masses were secretly conducted in a pub of that name just around the...

When keeping pace with street life becomes all too much, and you need somewhere to catch your breath and reflect, City Hall has just the right kind of empty grandeur. Entering...

Formerly the seat of British power in Ireland, and efficiently infiltrated by spies during the Michael Collins era, this isn't really a castle - no moat, no drawbridge to lower...

Leinster House is the seat of the Irish Parliament, made up of the Dáil (lower house) and the Seanad (senate or upper house). The first of Dublin's great 18th-century houses to...

This is the oldest public library in Ireland (and the only 18th-century building still used for its original purpose). Marsh's Library stands like a miniature working version...

Though the National Library is predominantly a research institution, some parts of it are open to the public. These include the grand domed Reading Room - the place in which...

These conjoined townhouses on St Stephen's Green South, originally the Catholic University of Ireland and now owned by University College Dublin, are probably the finest...

At one time, this church was UCD's answer to Trinity College. Now it's a favourite setting for society weddings, although its opulent, neo-Byzantine interior found little...

Just changing to year-round opening at the time of writing, this medieval parish church is well worth a look (visitors can either browse the visitors centre on their own or...

This, the largest church in Ireland, dates from the 13th century but was founded on a far older religious site associated with St Patrick and dating from the fifth century. As...

A pleasant (and surprisingly large) green expanse adjoining the cathedral of the same name, this park is a popular place for local workers to come to eat their sarnies and for...