Dublino Letteraria — Joyce, Beckett, Wilde, Yeats e la Tradizione Letteraria Irlandese
Dublino ha prodotto una parte sproporzionata della letteratura mondiale: quattro premi Nobel per la Letteratura, l'autore del romanzo più importante in inglese (James Joyce con l'Ulisse) e il più grande spirito della tradizione letteraria inglese (Oscar Wilde).
Phoenix Park e Howth Head — Le Fughe Naturali di Dublino
Dublin's natural spaces: Phoenix Park (the 707-hectare public park on the north bank of the Liffey, the largest urban park in any European capital city (larger than Hyde Park, Regent's Park, and the Bois de Boulogne combined), containing the herd of approximately 600 free-ranging fallow deer (established in the 1660s by the Duke of Ormond), Áras an Uachtaráin (the Irish President's residence), the US Ambassador's Residence, Dublin Zoo, and the Wellington Monument) and Howth Head (the rocky peninsula and fishing village 13 km north of Dublin city centre, accessible by DART suburban train).
Dublino Georgiana — Merrion Square e l'Architettura Georgiana
Georgian Dublin (the architectural legacy of the 18th century, when Dublin was the second city of the British Empire and one of the wealthiest and most elegant cities in Europe): the Georgian squares of Dublin (Merrion Square, Fitzwilliam Square, St. Stephen's Green, Parnell Square) represent the finest and most coherent Georgian townscape in the world — the characteristic Dublin Georgian terrace (red-brick, doorways with fanlight windows and elaborate plasterwork porticos, cast-iron railings, window boxes, and the distinctive Dublin door (the brightly coloured front doors — each house's door painted a different colour — that have become the defining visual symbol of Dublin)) is a UNESCO-potential landscape.
Temple Bar, Trinity College e il Libro di Kells — Il Cuore Storico di Dublino
Dublino — la capitale e la città più grande dell'Irlanda — ha il suo nucleo storico nella riva sud del Liffey: Temple Bar (il quartiere culturale e di intrattenimento), Trinity College (la più antica università d'Irlanda, custode del Libro di Kells) e Grafton Street.
Museo Nazionale d'Irlanda — Uomini delle Torbiere, Oro Celtico e Archeologia Irlandese
Il Museo Nazionale d'Irlanda (Archeologia) — la più importante collezione di materiale archeologico irlandese al mondo — ospita gli uomini delle torbiere (resti umani dell'Età del Ferro conservati per 2.000 anni), l'oro celtico e il Calice di Ardagh.
L'Insurrezione di Pasqua del 1916, il GPO e l'Indipendenza Irlandese
The Easter Rising (An Éirí Amach na Cásca — the armed insurrection against British rule that began on Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, in Dublin): the Easter Rising (led by Patrick Pearse (1879-1916) and James Connolly (1868-1916) at the head of approximately 1,200 Irish Volunteers and Irish Citizen Army) was the pivotal event of modern Irish history — the Proclamation of the Irish Republic (read by Pearse on the steps of the General Post Office (GPO) on O'Connell Street) on April 24, 1916, is the founding document of the Irish state; the Rising was suppressed within a week and its leaders executed, but the executions transformed public opinion and led directly to the Irish War of Independence (1919-1921) and the establishment of the Irish Free State (1922).
Monti Wicklow e Glendalough — Città Monastica Medievale
Wicklow Mountains (the mountain range immediately south of Dublin, accessible in 1-1.5 hours by bus from Dublin city centre — the 'Garden of Ireland,' the most beautiful natural landscape accessible from the Irish capital): the defining attraction of the Wicklow Mountains is Glendalough (Gleann Dá Loch — 'Valley of the Two Lakes' in Irish), the early medieval monastic settlement founded by St. Kevin (Coemgen, c.498-618 CE) in a glacially carved valley between two lakes (Upper Lake and Lower Lake), one of the most important early Christian sites in Ireland and one of the most atmospheric ruined monastic complexes in Europe.
Guinness Storehouse, Whiskey Irlandese e la Scena Gastronomica di Dublino
La cultura gastronomica e delle bevande di Dublino è inseparabile da due prodotti irlandesi iconici: la Guinness (la stout secca irlandese, prodotta per la prima volta da Arthur Guinness a St. James's Gate nel 1759) e il whiskey irlandese (la categoria di alcolici premium in più rapida crescita al mondo).
Musica Tradizionale Irlandese — Sessioni Trad, Cornamuse Uilleann e Sean-Nós
Traditional Irish music (the genre of instrumental and vocal folk music indigenous to Ireland — jigs, reels, hornpipes, slow airs, and polkas performed on fiddle, uilleann pipes (the Irish bellows-blown bagpipe), tin whistle, flute, accordion, concertina, and bodhrán (the Irish frame drum)) is the living musical tradition that defines Irish cultural identity globally: the traditional music session (the informal gathering of musicians in a pub to play tunes together, open to all who can keep up) is the most democratic musical tradition in the world, and the Dublin trad scene is the most concentrated and accessible in Ireland.