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Howth

Howth Head cliffs

Howth Head is a peninsula located closing Dublin's bay, it takes his name from the small traditional town of Howth.
You can reach Howth using the DART, a fast train service, from Dublin's city center, or take the Bus 31 or 31B just off O'Connell Street.
There is a walking trail starting east of the town that follows the cliffs all over to the southern part of the peninsula. Take the leftmost road from the harbour. The cliff's trail is indicated to the left a bit further. The view is breathtaking and it's really worth the walk. Along the way, you'll come across Dublin's most visible lighthouse, the Bailey Lighhouse (open for tours once a year during the summertime Howth Peninsula Festival). The southern part gives a great view of Dublin's bay and the city itself. The whole tour takes between 3 and 4 hours.
from Wikitravel.org

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night in Temple Bar

Howth Head

Dublin's bay from Bailey Lighthouse

Howth Head is a peninsula located closing Dublin's bay, it takes his name from the small traditional town of Howth.

You can reach Howth using the DART, a fast train service, from Dublin's city center, or take the Bus 31 or 31B just off O'Connell Street.

There is a walking trail starting east of the town that follows the cliffs all over to the southern part of the peninsula. Take the leftmost road from the harbour. The cliff's trail is indicated to the left a bit further. The view is breathtaking and it's really worth the walk. Along the way, you'll come across Dublin's most visible lighthouse, the Bailey Lighhouse (open for tours once a year during the summertime Howth Peninsula Festival). The southern part gives a great view of Dublin's bay and the city itself. The whole tour takes between 3 and 4 hours.

from Wikitravel.org

Howth Harbour

Dawn on Howth Harbour

Howth (from Old Norse: Hovuð meaning "head", called in Irish: Binn Éadair) is located on the peninsula of Howth Head, on the north side of Dublin Bay. Originally just a small fishing village and surrounding rural district, Howth is now a busy suburb of Dublin, with a mix of dense residential development and wild hillside, all on the peninsula of Howth Head which is connected to the rest of Dublin via a narrow strip of land. Howth is also home to one of the oldest occupied buildings in Ireland, Howth Castle.

from wikipedia

Howth Head

little bay on Howth Head

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Environment Furniture on Liffey river

Environment Furniture Ireland is part of the Maison & Chateau group of interior stores, stocking organic and environmentally friendly furniture. Combining style with sustainability.

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beautiful view of Liffey outpouring

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a morning in Temple Bar

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Molly Malone

«In Dublin's fair city,
where the girls are so pretty,
I first set my eyes on sweet Molly Malone,
As she wheeled her wheel-barrow,
Through streets broad and narrow,
Crying, "Cockles and mussels, alive alive oh!"
"Alive-a-live-oh,
Alive-a-live-oh",
Crying "Cockles and mussels, alive alive oh!"
She was a fishmonger,
And sure 'twas no wonder,
For so were her father and mother before,
And they both wheeled their barrow,
Through streets broad and narrow,
Crying, "Cockles and mussels, alive, alive oh!"
(chorus)
She died of a fever,
And no one could save her,
And that was the end of sweet Molly Malone.
Now her ghost wheels her barrow,
Through streets broad and narrow,
Crying, "Cockles and mussels, alive, alive oh!"
(chorus)
Molly Malone sung by The Dubliners
Molly Malone on wikipedia

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Dublin Tourist Information Office

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St Stephen's Green gazebo

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St Stephen's Green and Grafton Street

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National Gallery of Ireland

The National Gallery of Ireland houses the national collection of historic Irish and European fine art. It is located on Merrion Square in the heart of Georgian Dublin directly adjacent to Leinster House, the seat of the Dáil (the Irish Parliament).

Along with it's sister institutions the Natural History Museum, the National Museum and the National Library, encircling Leinster House, it constitutes part of a Museum quarter.

http://www.nationalgallery.ie/

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Christ Church Cathedral

Christ Church Cathedral (or more formally, The Cathedral of the Holy Trinity) is the cathedral of the United Dioceses of Dublin and Glendalough and the cathedral of the Ecclesiastical province of the United Provinces of Dublin and Cashel in the Church of Ireland. It is the elder of the capital city's two mediæval cathedrals, the other being St. Patrick's Cathedral.

The Cathedral is located in the former heart of medieval Dublin, next to Wood Quay, at the end of Lord Edward Street. However a major dual carriage-way building scheme around it separated it from the original medieval street pattern which once surrounded it, with its original architectural context (at the centre of a maze of small buildings and streets) lost due to road-building and the demolition of the older residential quarter at Wood Quay. As a result the cathedral now appears dominant in isolation behind new civil offices along the quays, out of its original medieval context.

At the west end of the cathedral is a fully-integrated stone bridge, leading to the former Synod Hall, which was built on the site of St Michael's, a prebendal church of Christ Church's which was demolished by Street during his restoration of the cathedral. This Synod Hall is now home to the Dublinia exhibition about medieval Dublin.

from wikipedia

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bridge in St.Stephen's Green

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St.Stephen's Green

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Liffey river and Four Courts in Dublin

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Trinity College

Trinity College Dublin (TCD, in Irish "Coláiste na Tríonóide, Baile Átha Cliath") was founded in 1592 by letters patent from Queen Elizabeth I as the "mother of a university" and is the only constituent college of the University of Dublin.

Trinity College on Wikipedia

Trinity College Official Site