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Finding Your Way
The Heart of Dublin The Ha'penny Bridge |
Finding Your Way The Dublin tourist office is located in the handsome old church of St. Andrew's, just southwest of Trinity College in the city center. Here you can obtain information about guided summer walking tours. Central Dublin is a reasonably easy and rewarding place to explore on foot. The main museums and notable buildings are concentrated in more fashionable south Dublin, but there are not-to-be-missed attractions across the River Liffey in north Dublin. A good starting point is the famous O'Connell Bridge, where Dublin begins with a rush. Take time to adjust to the breezy pace of it all. To the north is O'Connell Street - the “broadest street in Europe.” Lively shopping streets such as Abbey Street Lower and Earl Street North lead off to either side. On Earl Street you will find a genial, roguish statue of James Joyce, Ireland's most famous writer and the masterful chronicler of Dublin life. Go down Earl Street and turn left onto Marlborough Street to visit St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral, a magnificent neoclassic building that's always thronged with worshipers. Opposite Earl Street is very busy Henry Street, with the huge ILAC Shopping Centre and the adjoining fruit and vegetable market on Moore Street. The women who work the stalls are famous for their lively Joycean banter. On O'Connell Street, just before Henry Street, is one of the landmarks of the Easter Rising of 1916, when Irish nationalists staged an uprising against British rule and took over the General Post Office. At the north end of O'Connell Street, by the Parnell Monument, is Parnell Square; on the square's north side is the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art and the Dublin Writers Museum . |
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