Parliament Street
This street provides a fine view of the City Hall and of the Dublin Castle. George Faulkner, who founded the Evening Mail, lived at No. 27, published his journal from Nos 38-40. At No. 4 stands Thomas Read ‘Surgical Instrument in business since 1670, and the oldest shop trading in Dublin. On the street’s corner, at No. 21 stands Sunlight Chambers (Once leased by the Lever Bros) with its splendid terracotta frieze detailing the history of the processes of soap making.

Pearse Station
Westland Row. Ireland’s first, built 1834.

Royal Hibernian Academy
15 Ely Place (Off Hume St.) Dublin 2. Tel: (01) 661 2558. Exhibitions of leading Irish and International Artists. Weekly tours and Lunchtime Talks. Admission free.

Trinity College
College Green, Founded in 1592 this is Ireland’s premier university, much of it designed by Richard Castle and Hugh Darley. Sixteen hectares of college grounds open to public but not to dogs. There are frequent guided tours. See Lanyon’s thirty metre Campanile in Parliament Square then, clockwise 1723 Chapel, 1743 Dining Hall, 1892 Graduates Memorial Building & The Rubrics, 1712 Old Library with the Book of Kells. The public theatre behind is the New Square with the Museum Building (elk skeletons), 1734 Printing House then rugby and cricket grounds – splendid for summer sit downs.

In Synge Street, Dublin is the birthplace of renounced playwright George Bernard Shaw, one of Dublin's noted prize-winners for literature. The house itself gives you an insight to everyday life in Victorian Dublin.

Sycamore Street
At Nos 19/20, in 1846, Joshua Bewley, a Quaker, opened his first coffee house, as an alternative, for the artisan, to the public house. From little acorns....

St Andrew’s Church
St Andrew’s St. Designed by Charles Lanyon who devised Belfast’s best buildings.

St Audoen’s Church
Cornmarket. (Church of Ireland) St Audoen’s, entered off Cook St, is the city’s only surviving medieval church with 12th century tower and 15th century aisle. Tower bells date from 1423. St Audoen’s Arch is the last surviving part of the original city walls.