# Dublin: map, what to do and when to go

Dublin is a small capital of pubs and intimate venues, whose center you can cross on foot in half an hour. It has about 592,000 people at the mouth of the Liffey, grew from a Viking camp of 841, was remodeled in the 18th century and now houses tech offices in the docks.

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## Direct answer
- **Dublin: How do you get from the airport to downtown?** The options are the Airlink Express 700 (about €8 to 9, 30 to 45 minutes to the center), the Dublin Express 782 and 784 buses (a similar range), the regular city routes 16 and 41 (about €2.60 in cash, slower, stopping everywhere) and taxis, €30 to €40 and 25 to 45 minutes depending on traffic.
- **Dublin: What currency should you bring?** The currency is the euro, and Northern Ireland, two hours away by train, uses pounds sterling, so keep both if you'll cross the border.
- **Dublin: What's the weather like?** The weather changes by the hour and is almost never extreme: 4 to 8 °C in winter, 15 to 20 °C in summer, and rain that is usually drizzle, rarely a downpour.

## South of the river: the college, the museum and the medieval city
Start at 9am at Trinity College with a timed ticket for the Book of Kells and the Old Library; leave through the quad toward Grafton Street.
- Trinity College and the Book of Kells
- St Patrick's Cathedral
- Christ Church and Dublinia
- Dublin Castle and the Chester Beatty Library
- National Museum of Ireland: Archaeology

## Beer, prison and park
Enter the Guinness Storehouse with a timed ticket right at opening, when the Gravity Bar is still empty, and set aside two hours.
- Guinness Storehouse
- Kilmainham Gaol
- Phoenix Park

## North of the river and the coast
Start the morning on O'Connell Street with the GPO Witness History exhibition, inside the 1818 General Post Office, whose columns still bear the bullet marks of 1916.
- GPO and O'Connell Street

## Trinity College and the Book of Kells
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A college founded in 1592 in the heart of downtown, with stone quads and the Old Library (1712–1732), whose Long Room runs 65 m long. The Book of Kells, an illuminated vellum gospel book from around the year 800, is shown two pages at a time. Note: the Old Library's conservation project removed most of the roughly 200,000 volumes from the Long Room starting in 2023, and only the first four bays still hold books (about 20,000); the rest of the room has empty shelves and work underway (2026). Timed-entry ticket from about €21.50; book on the website.
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## Guinness Storehouse
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A former seven-story fermentation plant inside the St James's Gate brewery, opened as a museum in 2000 and now the country's most visited attraction. Arthur Guinness signed a 9,000-year lease in 1759 for £45 a year. The document is displayed under the glass floor on the ground level. It ends at the Gravity Bar, with a 360° view. Admission around €26, price varies by time slot; buying online is cheaper.
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## Kilmainham Gaol
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A prison from 1796, decommissioned in 1924, where fourteen leaders of the 1916 Rising were executed by firing squad in the stonebreakers' yard in May of that year. The Victorian wing from 1861, with its oval gallery and skylight, appears in dozens of films. The visit is guided only, costs about €8, and tickets are bought online.
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## St Patrick's Cathedral
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Dublin · Up to half an hour
Built between 1220 and 1260 over a well where St Patrick is said to have baptized converts, it's the largest church in Ireland, with a 43 m spire. Jonathan Swift, author of “Gulliver's Travels”, was dean from 1713 to 1745 and is buried in the nave, under a Latin epitaph he wrote himself.
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## Christ Church and Dublinia
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Dublin · Up to half an hour
Founded around 1030 by the Norse king Sitric Silkenbeard and rebuilt in stone by the Normans from 1172. The 63 m crypt is the largest in the British Isles and holds a mummified cat and mouse found in the organ pipes in the 19th century. A covered walkway links the cathedral to Dublinia, a museum of Viking and medieval Dublin.
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## Dublin Castle and the Chester Beatty Library
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Dublin · Up to half an hour
Seat of English power from 1204 to 1922, rebuilt after the 1684 fire; what remains is the medieval Record Tower and the 18th-century State Apartments. In the gardens is the Chester Beatty, a collection of Islamic, Chinese, and European manuscripts, papyri, and books that the copper magnate brought to Dublin in 1950 and bequeathed to the Irish state when he died, in 1968; admission is free. Check ahead: parts of the castle close for state events.
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## National Museum of Ireland: Archaeology
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On Kildare Street, an 1890 building with a marble rotunda. It holds the largest collection of prehistoric gold in western Europe, the Tara Brooch and the Ardagh Chalice (8th c.), and four bog bodies preserved for two thousand years in peat, skin and nails intact. Free admission, as at every branch of the national museum.
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## GPO and O'Connell Street
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Dublin · Up to half an hour
The General Post Office of 1818, with an Ionic portico by Francis Johnston, was the headquarters of the 1916 Rising, and its columns still bear bullet marks. The avenue in front is 49 m wide, and the Spire, a 120 m stainless steel needle installed in 2003, rises where Nelson's Pillar stood until it was blown up in 1966. The GPO Witness History exhibition tells the story of Easter week inside the building itself.
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## Phoenix Park
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A walled park of 707 hectares created in 1662 as a royal deer park, twice the size of Central Park. Inside it stand Áras an Uachtaráin (the president's residence, from 1751), Dublin Zoo (1831, one of the oldest in the world), the 62 m Wellington Monument, and a herd of fallow deer that has grazed freely since the 17th century.
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## Glasnevin Cemetery
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Opened in 1832 by Daniel O'Connell so Catholics could be buried with their own rites; it holds about 1.5 million burials, more than the living population of Dublin. Michael Collins, Parnell, de Valera, Larkin and the mass graves from the cholera epidemics are here. The 55 m round tower over O'Connell's tomb can be climbed on a guided tour.
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**Dublin: How do you get from the airport to downtown?**
The options are the Airlink Express 700 (about €8 to 9, 30 to 45 minutes to the center), the Dublin Express 782 and 784 buses (a similar range), the regular city routes 16 and 41 (about €2.60 in cash, slower, stopping everywhere) and taxis, €30 to €40 and 25 to 45 minutes depending on traffic.

**Dublin: What currency should you bring?**
The currency is the euro, and Northern Ireland, two hours away by train, uses pounds sterling, so keep both if you'll cross the border.

**Dublin: What's the weather like?**
The weather changes by the hour and is almost never extreme: 4 to 8 °C in winter, 15 to 20 °C in summer, and rain that is usually drizzle, rarely a downpour.

**Dublin: Is it a safe city?**
Dublin is a safe capital by European standards, with violent crime against visitors rare, but theft persistent.

**Dublin: How is Guinness poured?**
Guinness is poured in two stages: the bartender fills it three-quarters, lets it settle for about two minutes, and tops it off after; don't ask for a rush job.


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## Full editorial guide (Portuguese)
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