Dublin in 3 days: the 800 AD illuminated manuscript at Trinity College, the prison where the 1916 leaders were executed, the Victorian pub interior unchanged since 1880 and a trad session where the uilleann pipes play until midnight.
The 800 AD illuminated manuscript: Celtic knotwork so fine it requires a magnifying glass to see all detail, and the Long Room barrel-vaulted library with 200,000 of Trinity's oldest books.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideThe American mining magnate's extraordinary private collection: Quranic manuscripts in gold ink, Japanese erotic woodblock prints and Egyptian papyri, in Dublin Castle garden. Free entry.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideThe most authentic traditional Irish music pub in Dublin: musicians play unpaid for the love of the tradition, Thursday to Saturday from 9:30pm. Sit close and order a correctly-pulled Guinness (2 minutes total).
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideThe Victorian prison handed over in 1922 after 700 years of British rule: the panopticon East Wing, the stone-breakers' yard where Patrick Pearse and the wounded James Connolly were executed, and the last prisoner released (Éamon de Valera, future President).
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideArthur Guinness's original lease displayed on the ground floor: seven floors of brewing history culminating in a free pint poured to the two-stage Dublin standard, with a 360° view of the city.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideThe 1762 Georgian square: Wilde's reclining statue ("I can resist everything except temptation") faces his birthplace at No. 1. The painted doors (red, yellow, green, blue, black) are Dublin's most photographed feature.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideThe greatest collection of early Irish metalwork: the Tara Brooch with zoomorphic gold filigree at microscopic scale, and the silver chalice considered the finest early medieval metalwork in the world. Free.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideThe two 1817–1859 granite piers (1.3km each) and the James Joyce Tower at Sandycove (the Martello tower of Ulysses Chapter 1, now a Joyce museum with his guitar and waistcoat).
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideThe Victorian interior unchanged since 1880: the longest mahogany bar in Dublin, gilded mirrors, clocks ticking at their own rates and the Victorian snug where women once drank discreetly.
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