Location X in Dublin city centre?

Rimas

Hi,

I just got an assignment to do in College. We have to present an idea for the website designed to inform tourists about a location X in Dublin city centre.

I am new to Dublin and I didn’t have much time yet to explore it, so I decided to look for some advices about the possible locations.

This could be a place that is already an attraction for tourists, but I’d rather choose something not very well known, something you may think is not represented / known enough.

Old building with an interesting story behind it, a monument hidden from the tourists’ flows, a small park, a bar, an old tree… anything, really…

I will be extremely thankful for any ideas.

Cheers,
Rimas

Get in touch with la'cathedra. I can see them giving you lots of help.
It's an artists residence, but there's performances/exhibitions most weeks. It's a very bohemian place and should be a bigger tourist attraction. Great building and I'd personally love to know more about it.

Zatman

National Print Museum

FensterDJ

Chester Beatty library

Fittle

Try Wolfe Tone Park, just at the back of the Church Pub on Mary Street - I walk through it everyday but only today discovered what it was! It has some plaques with details of those who were buried there and who visited it frequently. It's an open space (not a park persay) with some benches etc - there are what I thought was a bit of sculpturing along one wall - turns out they are all headstones!! Turn left after McDonalds on Henry St/Mary St - you can't miss it:)

delta_bravo

The Thingmote at College Street is quite a good one. Thousands of people pass by it every day but few know what its for.

whiskeyman

The Casino in Marino.
Facinating place

boosh_fan

St Michan's church on Church St. The tour of the crypts beneath the church is fascinating and there are mummies down there and caskets which have burst open with skeletal remains peeking out.

A Disgrace

The old windmill on Thomas St, part of the Guinness Brewery.. It's been neglected as a tourist attraction because the car-park it sits in, and the surrounding offices are too important.. but it's a unique and special part of Dublin (it's the tallest of its kind in the world) and there's even an ancient, and still fruiting, pear tree at its base.... Plus I live nearby and the amout of tourists that photograph it is unbelievable, yet they can't really get near it...

Probably the only real hidden secret of Dublin at this stage

Rimas

So many great ideas.

Thank you all very much!

Regards,
Rimas

Gae

Iveagh Gardens off Harcourt Street. Great park, but not many people use it.

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boosh_fan wrote: »

St Michan's church on Church St. The tour of the crypts beneath the church is fascinating and there are mummies down there and caskets which have burst open with skeletal remains peeking out.

I second this !!

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Or you could do the bit of the old city wall thats left- behind St Audeon's Church on High St.