
Built on the hallowed turf of the former Lansdowne Road ground, the Aviva Stadium is Dublin's premier sports and entertainment arena, home to the Ireland national rugby union team and the Republic of Ireland football team. The original Lansdowne Road site staged sport from 1872, making it the oldest international rugby venue in the world, before it was demolished to make way for a state-of-the-art replacement that opened in May 2010. Designed by the renowned stadium architects Populous alongsid.....
Dating back to a house built around 1700, Bushy Park is a large suburban park in Terenure on the south side of Dublin, covering some twenty hectares of woodland, ponds and playing fields. The original residence, first known as Bushe's House after its builder Arthur Bushe, was renamed Bushy Park by a later owner in 1772, possibly after the royal park of the same name in London. The estate grew when Abraham Wilkinson added almost forty hectares in 1791 and gave the property as a dowry when his da.....
Once the demesne of the wealthy La Touche banking family, Marlay Park is a large public park at Rathfarnham, at the foot of the Dublin Mountains on the southern edge of the city. The estate takes its name from Elizabeth Marlay, whose husband David La Touche bought the property shortly after their marriage in the 1760s and gave it her family name. The La Touches rebuilt the house and laid out the grounds in the fashionable landscape style of the day, enclosing parkland with curving belts of tree.....
Inside a former garrison chapel at Beggars Bush, once a British army barracks and later a base for the fledgling Irish Free State, the National Print Museum preserves the machinery and craft of a trade that shaped public life for five centuries. It opened in 1996, growing out of a determination to save the presses, type and tools being scrapped as hot-metal printing gave way to digital production, and the collection now ranges from hand-operated presses to Linotype and Monotype casting machines......


