Dublin and Mystical Side Trips

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1. 2:19

   Famine Memorial

   🏢 Landmark · Custom House Quay

2. 3:34

   Grafton Street

   🛍️ Shopping · City Centre

   Grafton Street leads straight to St Stephen's Green.

3. 3:47

   St Stephen's Green

   🌳 Park · City Centre

   Today it is a cheery lunchtime escape for Dubliners on sunny afternoons.

4. 4:53

   Number Twenty Nine Georgian House Museum

   🏛️ Museum · Fitzwilliam Street

   Admission includes a guided tour, which explains details like pole screens that kept wax-based makeup from melting.

5. 5:49

   Trinity College Dublin

   🏛️ Historic site · City Centre

   The Old Library holds an original 1916 Proclamation and Ireland's oldest harp; no cameras are allowed at the Book of Kells.

6. 8:24

   National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology

   🏛️ Museum · Kildare Street

   The star piece is the 1,200-year-old Tara Brooch, with tiny faces etched into its glass beads.

7. 9:28

   Boyne Valley

   🚆 Day trip · County Meath

   Tara, Monasterboice and the Brú na Bóinne tombs can all be seen in one day, back in Dublin by dinner.

8. 9:56

   Hill of Tara

   🚆 Day trip · County Meath

   In 1843 Daniel O'Connell gathered hundreds of thousands of people here to demand Irish home rule.

9. 11:45

   Monasterboice

   🚆 Day trip · County Louth

   Muiredach's Cross, from around AD 900, is considered the finest high cross in Ireland.

10. 12:22

    Brú na Bóinne

    🚆 Day trip · County Meath

    Visitors get timed tour appointments on arrival, then take a shuttle bus to the tombs; a museum replica demonstrates the solstice sunbeam.

11. 12:47

    Knowth

    🏛️ Historic site · Brú na Bóinne

    Its two passages face east and west, so equinox sunlight shines in and lights the central chamber.

12. 13:54

    Newgrange

    🏛️ Historic site · Brú na Bóinne

    Guides take visitors deep inside; at the winter solstice sunrise, light fills the chamber for 17 minutes.

13. 15:30

    Temple Bar

    🏘️ Neighborhood · Temple Bar

    Around the summer solstice it stays light until 10pm, and the area is busy with English stag and hen parties.

14. 17:24

    GAA Museum

    🏛️ Museum · Croke Park

    Live hurling matches are on Sundays.

15. 19:26

    Dublin Literary Pub Crawl

    🚡 Activity · City Centre

    Leaves almost nightly from The Duke pub; tickets are cheap and you can just show up.

16. 20:00

    O'Connell Street

    🏢 Landmark · North City Centre

    It was renamed after Daniel O'Connell, 'The Liberator', only after independence in the 1920s.

17. 20:24

    General Post Office

    🏛️ Historic site · O'Connell Street

    Murals inside tell the story of the five-day siege.

18. 21:24

    Dublin Castle

    🏛️ Historic site · City Centre

    Tour guides lead visitors through the castle; the 1922 handover ceremony took place in the courtyard.

19. 21:52

    Kilmainham Gaol

    🏛️ Historic site · Kilmainham

    Guided tours visit the execution yard; the Last Words 1916 hall displays the leaders' farewell letters.

20. 22:58

    Guinness Storehouse

    🏛️ Museum · St James's Gate

    The tour ends at the Gravity Bar, with a 360° view of Dublin.

21. 24:11

    Traditional Irish Music Pub Crawl

    🚡 Activity · Temple Bar