The City


View from St. Michael's tower to the South.

"Wheeling a wheelbarrow, through streets broad and narrow" with Molly Malone.

In typical Dublin fashion the notably well-endowed statue has been dubbed "the tart with the cart."


The most important street in the whole city, O'Connel Street.

Here the old James Joyce still thinks about his Ulysses and doesn't notice us, the mortals.

This is a fountain figure of Anna Livia, Joyce's spirit of the river Liffey.

Of course, the Dubliners cooked-up another name, "the floozy in the jacuzzi".


Trinity College Dublin was founded by Elizabeth I in 1592 on grounds confiscated from a monastery..

The inner area is dominated by 30-metre Campanile, built on the site of monastery's belltower.

The statue of George Salmon, the College Provost in 1886-1904 can be seen to the left. He fought to keep women out of college and died soon after the College started admitting them.


The interior of the College Chapel.

This is St. Patrick's Cathedral, built on the site where the saint baptized many indwellers.

The grave of Jonathan Swift, the author of "Gulliver's Travels" and the Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in 1713-1743.

Christ Church Cathedral, built by Danes in 1038, rebuilt by Strongbow in 1170, is situated at the site of Dublin's original Viking's settlement. It was also the centre of medieval Dublin.

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This is the Custom House, built 1781-1791, burnt in 1921 during the independence struggle and rebuilt later. The copper dome is crowned by a five-metre statue of Hope.

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