A Victorian train shed became Ireland's biggest indoor stage. The 3Arena on North Wall Quay in the Dublin Docklands started life in 1878 as the Point Store, a railway goods depot serving the busy port; developer Harry Crosbie and Apollo Leisure converted it into the Point Theatre in 1988, and for two decades the Point was Irish shorthand for the big gig - U2 recorded part of Rattle and Hum here before the renovation, and Nirvana, Bowie, Oasis and the Spice Girls all passed through. The 2007-200.....

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.....