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...

Best known as the site of the Easter Rising in 1916, the GPO remains a potent symbol of Irish independence. Designed by Francis Johnston in 1818, it was almost completely...

At first glance, Iveagh gardens look private: they're ringed by high stone walls and their entrances are hidden. One door lurks behind the National Concert Hall on Earlsfort...

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...

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...

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...

Housed in the old coach house of the former Papal Nunciature, this centre explains the history of Phoenix Park. Regular free tours of nearby Ashtown Castle, a 17th-century...

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...

Formerly the graveyard to the ivystrangled relic of a church at its centre, this beguiling little park is almost always empty. Rumour has it that the area is haunted by the...

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...

Designed by British architect Sir Edwin Lutyens as a tribute to the 49,400 Irish soldiers who died in World War I (each end of the grounds is guarded by a granite bookroom...

The altar of this Byzantine-looking church is said to contain the relics of St Valentine, donated by Pope Gregory XVI in 1835, and so has a busy season with couples around the...