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Welcome to the Gaiety, the perfect city centre venue for the perfect Dublin night out. The Gaiety theatre offers an ecelctic mix of musical enterainment....

Established by an Act of Parliament in 1854, the National Gallery first opened its doors to the public in January 1864. At the time of its inauguration there were just 105 paintings in the collection (the first purchase was 15 paintings bought in 1856 in Rome). Today the collection boasts over 2,440 paintings, 5,230 drawings, watercolours and miniatures, 3,066 prints, 331 pieces of sculpture, vestments and object d'art, making it one of the finest collections of European art. Every major Europea...

Boasting a capacity of 82,300, Croke Park Stadium is the home of gaelic games and the headquarters of the GAA - the Gaelic Athletic Association. This impressive stadium is located to the north of Dublin city centre near the suburb of Drumcondra. It's one of the largest stadiums in Europe and is the place to be in Ireland on All Ireland Final Day.
It can be found just off Jones Road in Dublin 3 and is within easy walking distance of O'Connell Street. It covers about 700,000 square feet an...

Designed by Daithi Hanly and dedicated to the memory of all those who gave their lives in the cause of Irish freedom.
The large sculpture by Oisin Kelly is based on the theme of the "Children of Lir", who according to an old Irish legend were changed into swans. The sculpture evokes Yeats' famous lines about the 1916 Rebellion: "All is changed, changed utterly; A terrible beauty is born".
The garden is intended as a place of quiet remembrance and reflection. It was opened by...

The RDS is one of Ireland's premier venues for concerts, trade fairs and exhibitions....

The James Joyce Centre is located on North Great George's Street, one of the city's finest remaining Georgian thoroughfares. The Centre is housed in a beautifully restored 18th century Georgian Townhouse and is located only about 300 metres from O'Connell Street.
The Centre aims to promote a greater interest in the life and works of Joyce and to do this it organises daily tours of the house and walks through the heartland of Joyce's north inner city. It has all the usual audiovisual tr...

The Irish literary tradition is one of the most illustrious in the world, famous for four Nobel prize-winners and for many other writers of international renown. In 1991 the Dublin Writers Museum was opened to house a history and celebration of literary Dublin....

The O2 Arena is the main port of call for most international artists that visit Dublin.

formerly The Point Theatre....

The Old Jameson Distillery in Smithfield Village is in the heart of Old Dublin. Irish Whiskey can trace its history back to the 6th century.
It was established in 1780 by John Jameson and it's now one of Dublin's top attractions. It's almost like a tour of a working distillery as you can follow the fascinating craft of whiskey making through the different stages from grain intake to malting, mashing, fermentation, distillation, maturation and bottling.
Finally the tour culminat...

The Hugh Lane Art Gallery is located in Charlemont House on Parnell Square and is one of Dublin's major attractions. Charlemont House was designed by Sir William Chambers, who also designed the Casino at Marino.
The gallery was founded by Sir Hugh Lane in 1908, who was an avid collector of impressionist art. His attempts to donate his collection to the city of Dublin, at the turn of the century were met with indifference and little effort was made to raise the money for the gallery. It...