What to see in Dublin

Dublin highlights

The places you can’t miss. In the app we sort them by day and close to each other.

1. Trinity College

   Ireland’s oldest university, with the Book of Kells and the Long Room of its library.

2. Guinness Storehouse

   The story of Guinness over seven floors; you drink your pint in the glass bar at the top.

3. Howth

   A fishing village 30 minutes away by train, with a clifftop path and seafood at the harbour.

4. Cliffs of Moher (day trip)

   Cliffs more than 200 m high above the Atlantic; from Dublin it’s a full day, best on a tour.

5. St Patrick’s Cathedral

   The largest church in Ireland. Jonathan Swift was dean here for thirty years and is buried beside the nave.

6. Kilmainham Gaol

   A guided tour of the prison where the leaders of 1916 were executed. The glass-roofed Victorian wing stays with you.

7. Phoenix Park

   Seven hundred hectares with a herd of wild fallow deer, the president’s residence and bike hire at the entrance.

8. Dublin Castle

   The seat of British power for seven hundred years. You can see the state apartments and the Viking excavations in the basement.

9. St Stephen's Green

   A Victorian park with a duck pond and a bandstand. The entrance arch still bears bullet marks from 1916.

10. Ha'penny Bridge

    A cast-iron footbridge from 1816 over the Liffey. Crossing it cost half a penny, hence the name.

11. Poolbeg Lighthouse

    You walk more than a kilometre along a granite breakwater to an 18th-century red lighthouse, with the bay on both sides.

12. Marsh’s Library

    An untouched library from 1707: dark oak, cages where readers were locked in with rare books and volumes annotated by Swift.

Day trips from Dublin

We take you straight to the best-rated tour on GetYourGuide, with its reviews and dates.

• Cliffs of Moher ★ 4.6 (2,381 reviews)
• Glendalough and Wicklow ★ 4.2 (3,001 reviews)
• Giant’s Causeway ★ 4.7 (977 reviews)

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Typical food of Dublin

The dish you have to try there and how to make it at home, to whet your appetite before the trip (or to go back to Dublin from your kitchen).

Dublin coddle

The stew of Dublin’s working-class neighbourhoods: sausages, bacon, potato and onion slow-cooked together. It was made on Saturdays with whatever was left from the week.

• Serves 4
• 1 h 30 min

Ingredients

• 8 pork sausages
• 250 g thick-cut bacon rashers
• 1 kg potatoes
• 2 onions
• 500 ml chicken stock
• Parsley
• Pepper

How to make it at home

1. Brown the sausages and the bacon in pieces in a casserole.
2. Take them out and layer the thickly sliced potatoes, the thinly sliced onion, the bacon and the sausages.
3. Add pepper, parsley and the stock.
4. Cover and cook over a very low heat (or in the oven at 150 °C) for 1 hour.
5. Serve in deep bowls with soda bread.

The trick: Best not to add salt: the bacon brings all the salt it needs.

Frequently asked questions about Dublin