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.....

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.....

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-.....

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.....