Best of Dublin

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Keywords: Dublin, Ireland, Temple Bar, River liffey

Dublin, Ireland
Dublin is the capital and largest city of Ireland. Dublin is in the province of Leinster on the east coast of Ireland, at the mouth of the River Liffey and bordered on the South by the Wicklow Mountains.

O’Connell Street & Bridge
O'Connell Street is Dublin's main thoroughfare. During the 17th century it was a narrow street known as Drogheda Street (named after Henry Moore, Earl of Drogheda). It was widened, and renamed 'Sackville Street' (named after Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset) in the late 1700s until 1924, when it was renamed in honour of Daniel O'Connell, a nationalist leader of the early 19th century, whose statue stands at the lower end of the street, facing O'Connell Bridge. O'Connell Bridge is a road bridge spanning the River Liffey in Dublin, and joining O'Connell Street to D'Olier Street, Westmoreland Street and the south quays. The original bridge (named Carlisle Bridge for the then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland - Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle) was designed by James Gandon, and built between 1791 and 1794. Bridge has been closed for modifications on several occasions and was reopened in 1882 it was renamed for Daniel O'Connell when the statue in his honour was unveiled.





Trinity College
Trinity College officially the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, is the sole constituent college of the University of Dublin, a research university located in Dublin, Ireland. The college was founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth I as the "mother" of a new university modelled after 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 university. Trinity College is widely considered to be the most prestigious university in Ireland, and amongst the most elite in Europe.


Christchurch Cathedral
Christ Church Cathedral is the cathedral of the United Dioceses of Dublin and Glendalough and the cathedral of the Ecclesiastical province of the United Provinces of Dublin and Cashel in the Church of Ireland.



Liffey Bridge
The Ha'penny Bridge known later for a time as the Penny Ha'penny Bridge, and officially the Liffey Bridge, is a pedestrian bridge built in May 1816 over the River Liffey in Dublin, Ireland.


Famine Memorial
The Great Famine or the Great Hunger was a period of mass starvation, disease, and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1849. It is sometimes referred to, mostly outside Ireland, as the Irish Potato Famine, because about two-fifths of the population was solely reliant on this cheap crop for many historical reasons. During the famine, about one million people died and a million more emigrated from Ireland causing the island's population to fall by between 20% and 25%.



Temple Bar
Temple Bar is an area on the south bank of the River Liffey in central Dublin, Ireland. The area is bounded by the Liffey to the north, Dame Street to the south, Westmoreland Street to the east and Fishamble Street to the west. Unlike other parts of Dublin's city centre, it is promoted as Dublin's cultural quarter and has a lively nightlife that is popular with tourists.


Irish Emigration House
EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum is an immersive, interactive museum located in Dublin's Docklands about the history of the Irish diaspora and emigration to other countries. EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum is a privately owned museum, founded by Neville Isdell, former chairman and Chief Executive of The Coca-Cola Company, who was born in County Down and moved to Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) aged 10 in the 1950s. EPIC was officially opened by Neville Isdell and former President of Ireland Mary Robinson on 6 May 2016.


John Lane’s Church
John's Lane Church opened in 1874 on the site of St. John's Hospital (founded 1180). It is located on Thomas Street, Dublin, close to the centre of the medieval city, and is served by the Augustinian Order.


St. Audoen’s Church
St Audoen's Church is the church of the parish of Saint Audoen in the Church of Ireland, located south of the River Liffey at Cornmarket in Dublin, Ireland. The church is named after St Ouen (or Audoen) of Rouen (Normandy), a saint who lived in the seventh century and was dedicated to him by the Anglo-Normans, who arrived in Dublin after 1172.









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