First opening its doors in 1879 as the Star of Erin Music Hall, the venue now known as the 3Olympia Theatre is one of Dublin's most cherished and historic stages. Founded by the music-hall impresario Dan Lowrey on Dame Street, it has worn several names across its long life, trading as Dan Lowrey's Palace of Varieties and then the Empire Palace Theatre before settling, in 1923, on the Olympia, the name it carried for almost a century until a 2021 sponsorship deal added the 3 prefix. Architectura.....

Nicknamed the Floozie in the Jacuzzi almost as soon as it appeared, the Anna Livia monument is a reclining bronze figure set in a pool of flowing water, a personification of the River Liffey that runs through Dublin. It was commissioned by the businessman Michael Smurfit in memory of his father and unveiled in 1988 to mark the city's millennium celebrations. The sculpture, by the Derry-born artist Eamonn O'Doherty, takes its name from Anna Livia Plurabelle, the character in James Joyce's Finneg.....

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.....

Bachelors Walk runs along the north bank of the River Liffey in central Dublin, a quayside street stretching from O'Connell Bridge westward toward the Ha'penny Bridge and Ormond Quay. It takes its name from a developer who built up the street, with records of the name reaching back to the early eighteenth century, when it was set out as an extension of the riverside quays from the 1670s. In its early days the street was home to merchants and grand terraced houses, and its riverside position mad.....

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.....

In the cobbled heart of Temple Bar, on Curved Street, the Button Factory is one of Dublin's most respected independent music and arts venues. Originally opened in 1996 as the Temple Bar Music Centre, conceived as a cultural hub for Irish music, it was renamed in 2007 in a nod to the building's former life as a button factory, and has since spent nearly three decades as a key space for live performance, club nights and album launches in the city centre. The main room is a state-of-the-art black-.....

Located within the St Stephen's Green Shopping Centre in central Dublin, Chillers on the Green is a restaurant, bar and lounge that doubles as a late-night and nightlife venue. It blends Afro-Caribbean influenced food and cocktails with DJ-led evenings, occupying a unit inside one of the city's landmark shopping centres at the top of Grafton Street. The result is a hybrid space that works as a daytime and evening dining room and shifts into a bar and lounge atmosphere later in the week. The ven.....

Founded around 1030 by the Hiberno-Norse king Sitric Silkenbeard and the first bishop of Dublin, Dunan, Christ Church Cathedral is the older of the city's two medieval cathedrals and among its oldest buildings. The original church, built on high ground overlooking the Viking settlement at Wood Quay, was a wooden structure that served as one of just two churches for the whole early city. In the 1170s, following the Anglo-Norman invasion, the cathedral was rebuilt in stone under the impetus of Ri.....

Christchurch Place is the open square and short street that fronts Christ Church Cathedral on the rise above Wood Quay, marking one of the oldest inhabited corners of Dublin. The ground here was the heart of the Viking and medieval city, and the modern road follows lines of settlement that stretch back more than a thousand years. For much of its history the area around the place was a dense warren of medieval lanes and houses, swept away in stages by road widening and the redevelopment of the t.....

With room for 82,300 spectators, Croke Park is the headquarters of the Gaelic Athletic Association and one of the largest stadiums in Europe. Sitting on Jones's Road on the north side of Dublin, it is the spiritual home of Gaelic football and hurling, and its name carries enormous cultural weight far beyond sport. The site began as the Jones's Road sports ground in the nineteenth century, hosting athletics and early Gaelic games. The GAA bought the ground outright in 1913 and renamed it in hono.....