Set on the banks of the River Liffey,
Dublin is a splendidly
monumentalcity with a cosmopolitan feel and an internationally renowned nightlife.
A shore excursion on your MSC
Northern Europe & cruises from UK cruise can be the opportunity to discover
Dublin's elegance and essentially
Georgianarchitecture, hailing from when the Anglo-Irish gentry invested their income in new townhouses.
Dublin's fashionable
Southside is home to the city's trendy bars, restaurants and shops - especially in the cobbled alleys of
Temple Bar leading down to the River Liffey - and most of its historic monuments, centred on
Trinity College, Grafton Street and
St Stephen's Green. But the
Northside, with its long-standing working-class neighbourhoods and inner-city communities, is the real
heart of the city.
Across the bridges from Temple Bar are the
shopping districts around
O'Connell Street, where you'll find a flavour of the
old Dublin. Here, you'll also come across a fair amount of graceful
residential streets and
squares, with plenty of interest in the
museums and
cultural hotspots around the elegant
ParnellSquare.
The Vikings sited their assembly and burial ground near what is now College Green, a three-sided square where Trinity College is the most famous landmark. Founded in 1592, Trinity College played a major role in the development of a Protestant Anglo-Irish tradition: right up to 1966, Catholics had to obtain a special dispensation to study here, though now they make up the majority of the students.
The stern grey and mellow red-brick buildings are ranged around cobbled quadrangles in a larger version of the quads at Oxford and Cambridge. The Old Library owns numerous Irish manuscripts; pride of place goes to the illustrated ninth-century Book of Kells, which contains the four Gospels written in Latin on vellum, the script adorned with patterns and fantastic animals intertwined with the text's capital letters.
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