The document provides information on various tourist attractions in Dublin, Ireland, including the oldest pub, the Brazen Head; the busy shopping street Grafton Street; the colorful Temple Bar area; St. Patrick's Cathedral; Leinster House which houses Parliament; the General Post Office building that was attacked during the 1916 Easter Rising; Ha'penny Bridge; several museums; the Customs House building; Trinity College; monuments to Wellington, O'Connell, the Great Famine, and others; the Spire monument; Dublin's historic tram system; the River Liffey that runs through the city; and more. It offers concise descriptions of the most prominent sights and sites for visitors to see in Dublin

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Dublin
Sightseeing

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Tourist Sit Down Hotspots
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The Brazen Head
 Oldest Pub in Dublin
 Opened in the 8th
century
 On Bridge Street
 Southside of the
Liffey
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Grafton Street
 Grafton Street is quite
short.
 designer shops,
department stores,
etc,
 locals and tourists.
 street performers.
 The Molly Malone
statue
 Also, there’s a statue
of Phil Lynott
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Temple Bar Area
 Temple Bar is
in the heart of
Dublin City
 Shopping,
eating
watching
 Some of the
most colourful
streets in
Dublin.
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St. Patrick's Cathedral
 Patron Saint of Ireland
 the largest church in the
country
 erected between 1200
and 1270.
 between 1860 and 1900 a
full-scale restoration
based on the original
design, was carried out
by the Guinness family.
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Leinster House
 the two houses
Parliament
(Oireachtas).
 The lower house, the
Dail,
 and the upper house is
the Seanad.
 Erected in 1745 for the
Duke of Leinster, and
designed by Richard
Cassels
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The General Post Office
 It is the headquarters of
the Irish postal service.
 In the centre of the city's
main thoroughfare
O'Connell Street
 During the Easter Rising of
1916, it served as the
headquarters of the
uprising's leaders.
 The assault of the British
forces extensively
damaged the building
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Ha’Penny Bridge
 One of 10 pedestrian
bridges over the River Liffey
 built in 1816.
 Wellington Bridge
 changed to Liffey Bridge,
and somewhat surprisingly,
the name remains as so to
this day.
 the more popular title of
Ha'penny Bridge stuck in
the minds of the natives.
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Museums in Dublin
 National Museum of  Irish Museum of Modern
Ireland – Art (IMMA)
 Whether you are 8 years old
 The National Museum of or 80, there is a wide range
Ireland has long been a of services, programmes
resource for people of all and events
ages, providing a wide  including guided tours,
range of opportunities for public lectures, weekend
life long learning and for the events, and demonstrations,
discovery and enjoyment of education resource rooms
Ireland’s rich heritage. and an information and
resource service.
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The Customs House
 one of Dublin's finest Georgian buildings.
 Designed by James Gandon
 The Custom House was seized by the Dublin
Brigade of the IRA on 25th May 1921.
 They saw the Custom House as a manifestation of
British power in Ireland, and set the building ablaze.
The fire burnt for 5 days, destroying the interiors &
many paper records housed there.
 It was decided in 1926 to rebuild the Custom House
on the existing shell.
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The Customs House
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The Trinity College
 founded in 1592 by
Queen Elizabeth I
 Trinity and the
University of Dublin
form Ireland's oldest
university.
 Trinity is located in the
centre of Dublin,
 The campus occupies
47 acres (190,000 m²),
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Wellington Monument
 commemorate victories
of Duke of Wellington
 born in Dublin
 tallest obelisk in
Europe
 It was completed in
1861.
 He defeated Napoleon
at Waterloo.
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O’Connell Monument /
O’Connell Street
 - Daniel O'Connell (6 August 1775 – 15 May 1847)),
 known as The Liberator or The Emancipator,
 championed the cause of the Catholic tenants and
small-landholders
 He is remembered in Ireland as the founder of a
non-violent form of Irish nationalism, and for the
channelling of Irish politics by the mobilisation of the
Catholic community as a political force, with the help
of the clergy.
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O’Connell Monument /
O’Connell Street
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The Famine Monument
(The Great Hunger)
 – It reduced the population
of Ireland by 20 to 25 %
between 1845 and 1851.
 Virtually all modern
historians of Ireland regard
it as a dividing line in the
Irish historical narrative,
referring to the preceding
period of Irish history as
"pre-Famine."
 responsible for a significant
increase of emigration from
Ireland, of anywhere from
45% to nearly 85%
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William Smith O’Brein Monument
 Although a Protestant, he
supported Catholic
Emancipation while
remaining a supporter of
British-Irish union.
 On 29 July 1848, he led
peasants in a futile, almost
bloodless battle against
police at Ballingarry, County
Tipperary.
 The jury in his subsequent
trial found him guilty of high
treason
 Quote: "The new Irish flag
would be Orange and
Green, and would be known
as the Irish tricolour."
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Jim Larkin Monument
 Irish labour leader &
trade union organiser
 Big Jim Larkin (1846-
1947
 In 1909 he founded
Ireland's first National
trade union
 in 1912 co-founded the
Irish Labor party.
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The Spire
 It is a large, pin-
like monument 120
metres (393 ft) in
height. It is
located on the site
of the former
Nelson Pillar on
O'Connell Street in
the Irish capital,
Dublin.
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Trams
 On 16th May 1896, first electric trams began running
between Haddington Road and Dalkey.
 the line was sold a few months later to the Dublin
United Tramways,
 at that time running about 170 horse cars over 33
route miles.
 the last horse tram ran on the Bath Avenue line in
January 1901
 the Dublin area had about 66 electric route miles, of
which nearly 50 were owned by the DUTC.
 the Dublin system became a world leader, pioneering
several developments that were later adopted
universally.
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Trams
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The River Liffey
 The river Liffey is the main river in Dublin
 It rises in Sally Gap near Kippure in Wicklow, the
county just south of Dublin.
 It then travels one hundred and twenty five
kilometres through the centre of Dublin City, and
out into Dublin Bay, and out to the Irish Sea.
 There are lots of bridges along the Liffey such
as the Ha'penny bridge and O'Connell bridge.
 The last bridge on the river is a toll bridge called
the East Link , which is four hundred metres
from the mouth of the Liffey.
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The River Liffey
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