South Of The River Liffey

Anglesea Street
Once the home, and workplace, in the 18th century of musical instrument makers, book-binders and stationery, the street was named for the Earl of Anglesea in the late 17th century. In 1878 the Dublin Stock Exchange was established at Nos 24-28, bringing in stockbrokers and their families and making it then one of the city’s most fashionable addresses.

Bank of Ireland
College Green. Tel: (01) 677 6801. Designed by several architects in 1729 to house the Irish Parliament its frontage has statues to worthy principals. The parliament voted itself out of existence by the Act of Union 1800. Banking hall was once the Commons; the Irish House of Lords is a concert venue and there are guided tours Tuesdays.

Cecilia Street
In Cecilia Street, named after the patron saint of music, is Cecilia House, originally a lecture Hall for the Society of Apothecaries, later the Medical School of the Catholic University of Ireland.

Chester Beatty Library
Dublin Castle, Dublin 2, www.cbl.ie,
Tel: (01) 407 0750. Beatty was an Irish-American mining engineer who, having contracted silicosis, collected this astonishing collection of Middle and Far Eastern work, then donated it to the Irish nation. Silks, papyrii, jade and netsuki of astonishing beauty.

Christ Church Cathedral
(Church of Ireland) Christ Church Place.
Tel: (01) 677 8099. Re-built by the Normon Strongbow around 1170 for St Laurance O'Toole on the site of a previous 1038 Danish wooden church. Re-built mid 16th century and again 1871-78. Splendid lofty interior with stone vaulting and crypt. The latter used as a marketplace in medieval times. Enbalmed heart of St Laurance is in the Chapel of St Laud.