Pitching itself somewhere between a DJ bar and a nightclub, Dame Lane is a two-level, New York loft-style space, popular with club kids during the week and...
4 Dame Lane
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...
Clock Tower Building
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...
4 Merchants Quay
This neat modernist exhibition space could scarcely be more at odds with the fusty, old-world atmosphere that Trinity tends to project to the outside world....
Trinity College
A gem of a space in the heart of Temple Bar. This gallery's permanent collection of 20th-century Irish artworks is run in conjunction with monthly...
Meeting House Square
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...
O'Connell Street
In 1886 George Moore said of the Kildare Street Club: 'It represents all that is respectable, that is to say, those who are gifted with that oyster-like...
Kildare Street
Celerating its centenary in 2008, the Municipal Gallery is named after Hugh Lane, nephew of Yeats's friend Lady Gregory and noted art patron who determined...
Parnell Square North
One of the most important 17th-century buildings in Ireland, the Royal Hospital was designed by Sir William Robinson in 1684 to serve as a nursing home for...
Royal Hospital
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...
Entrances to park: Hatch Street Upper; Clonmel Street
This collection of documents and artefacts relating to the Jewish community of Ireland includes a reconstruction of a late 19th-century kitchen typical of a...
3 Walworth Road
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...
Kildare Street
This gallery houses a small but fine collection of European works from the 14th to the 20th centuries, including paintings by Caravaggio (in Room 42),...
Merrion Square West
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 -...
Kildare Street
Housed in the breathtaking confines of the barracks formerly used by the British Army, this branch of the National Museum of Ireland contains the nation's...
Collins Barracks