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visitdublin.com #lovedublin WHAT’S NEW IN DUBLIN? VISITDUBLIN.COM TOUR VISITOR ATTRACTIONS, ACTIVITY TOURS & ACTIVITIES VISITOR ATTRACTION MOLI DUBLIN WHISKEY EXPERIENCE Opening spring 2019 www.moli.ie www.dublinwhiskeyexperience.ie The Museum of Literature Ireland - MoLI Whiskey tasting has taken on a whole new – is Dublin’s newest cultural institution dimension with the launch of The Dublin and visitor attraction. Named after James Whiskey Experience. This unique tour Joyce’s most famous female character, takes you deep into the heart of Ireland’s Molly Bloom, the museum combines capital to sample some of the finest Irish modern interactive exhibitions and DUBLIN DISCOVERY TRAILS whiskeys, and gives you a flavour of the incredible rare literary collections, set in real Dublin along the way. www.dublindiscoverytrails.com one of Dublin’s most spectacular historic With Gareth Downey as your whiskey houses on St. Stephen’s Green. Exhibitions Unlock the treasures and stories of guide, his vast experience in the Irish will include spectacular Joyce artefacts Ireland’s capital city with the Dublin hospitality industry will give you a truly from the State collections – a must see is Discovery Trails, a new series of free, self- unique experience in whiskey tastings Joyce’s own copy of Ulysses, a modern guided walking trails. Let magical tales of around Dublin. day Book of Kells and the most important the city’s colourful past weave their spell There are three tours to choose from, novel of the 20th century. Visitors can as you wander from trail to trail, each one each one combining the personal touch self-guide or join lively tours, pick up accessible when you download the Dublin with expert knowledge and authentic exclusive souvenirs in the museum shop Discovery Trails app. There are eight feel of old Dublin – the perfect blend for and rest a while with an Irish breakfast Discovery Trails available to download: whiskey lovers. or lunch in our café, set in Dublin’s most Rebellion; Story of Dublin; Echoes of beautiful private gardens in the heart of War; Empire; The ‘Real’ Dublin trail; The the city centre, just 2 minutes walk from Dubline and two new trails focused on the Grafton Street. northside of Dublin. 14 HENRIETTA STREET Opening September 2018 www.14henriettastreet.ie NATIONAL GALLERY OF IRELAND Dating from the 1720s, Henrietta Street www.nationalgallery.ie/thursday-lates- in Dublin’s North inner city is the most DUBLIN GARDEN TRAIL summer-city intact collection of early to mid-18 century The National Gallery of Ireland has aristocratic townhouses in Ireland. 14 www.dublingardens.com started a yearlong (June 2018 – June Henrietta Street like many others was 2019) collaboration with creative and The Dublin Garden Trail brings together 12 divided into tenement flats in 1877, with talented Tropical Popical, a nail salon of the most distinguished private gardens some 100 people living under its roof by in Dublin. Tropical Popical nail artists in the greater Dublin area. Some of them 1911. The museum tells the story of the will design and create custom nail art at are world famous; while others are secret building and the people that lived over the the first of the new series of ‘Thursday treasures. They range from historic estate years. It also seeks to help you deepen your Lates’ events within the Gallery space. gardens to contemporary design gems. understanding of the history of urban life The ‘TropPopettes’ will also be part of What makes these gardens special is and housing in Ireland during this time. the Gallery’s Culture Night celebrations that visitors receive a personal tour by (Friday 21 September) and many more the dedicated owners who will reveal the significant events. These one-of-a-kind garden’s magic. A warm welcome awaits nail designs are also available to purchase you in each of these beautiful gardens. in the Tropical Popical salon on South Visitors go home energised and full of William Street, see tropicalpopical.com ideas for their own garden. for further details. VISITDUBLIN.COM THE VAULTS (COMING SOON) SEAMUS HEANEY: LISTEN NOW AGAIN www.thevaultsdublin.com THE VAULTS® is a spectacular new www.nli.ie/seamusheaney 60-minute actor-led journey through A major exhibition on Seamus Heaney 800 years of Ireland’s juiciest history. opened recently in the new Bank of The audience is led through a series of Ireland Cultural and Heritage Centre scenes in Irish history, where doorways on Westmoreland Street, Dublin 2. lead to other times and other worlds. The exhibition will draw on the writer’s Aimed at a universal audience, the journey extensive literary archive; which was blends live performance with thrilling donated to the NLI in 2011, and on special effects, dark humour, moments archives held by Emory University. It will of pure pantomime fun and lots of feature Heaney’s original manuscripts audience participation, guaranteeing an as well as letters, unpublished works, unforgettable and thrilling experience. diary entries, photographs, broadsides and multi-media recordings. Seamus THE BALLAD TOUR Heaney: Listen Now Again will be the www.balladtours.com first exhibition to be housed in the new Cultural and Heritage Centre, and it will Join an esteemed balladeer who will take run for at least three years. Admission is you through streets board and narrow, free. singing the tragedies and comedies that took place in Dublin. Discover the hidden stories behind landmark buildings and learn about the people and history in the best possible way, through song! WHISKEY ISLAND www.whiskeyisland.ie Whiskey Island offers a menu of fully escorted whiskey trails and distillery tours to Ireland’s 20 distilleries and whiskey stops. Their Dublin tour takes in the Celtic TALKING STATUES Whiskey Shop where visitors can browse the vast stocks of whiskeys before taking www.talkingstatuesdublin.ie a journey through ages revealing the 11 of Dublin’s most famous statues have origins of Irish whiskey in the Irish Whiskey been given the gift of the gab! Pass a Museum. By then you’ll be ready to visit Talking Statue, swipe your smartphone an actual working distillery, Teelings on a nearby plaque and presto, get a call Whiskey in historic Dublin Liberties. Finish back from James Joyce (written by Roddy off with a tour of Jameson Distillery Bow Doyle and voiced by Gabriel Byrne), St., one of the most popular attractions in Oscar Wilde (written by John Banville Dublin. and voiced by Andrew Scott), or Fidelity on the O’Connell Monument (written by Paula Meehan and voiced by Ruth Negga)! Each has a story to tell. Together, they tell Dublin’s story. Using drama, humour and location technology, Talking Statues breathes new life into the statues THE O’CONNELL TOWER, that surround us. Some approaches are GLASNEVIN CEMETERY dramatic, others comic and others flights of pure fantasy. All aim to persuade the www.glasnevinmuseum.ie public to look at the statues with new eyes. To hear the statues speak, just bring Recently opened in April this year, The your phone and pay them a visit! O’Connell tower marks the final resting place of one of Ireland’s greatest political leaders and founder of Glasnevin Cemetery, Daniel O’Connell (1755- 1847). In 1971 the tower’s staircase was destroyed by a bomb and this project by Glasnevin Trust in conjunction with the Office of Public Works has resulted in the reinstallation of these stairs and the opportunity to view Dublin from one of the city’s most recognisable landmarks. VISITDUBLIN.COM VISITDUBLIN.COM DUBLIN SNAPSHOT 81,000 57,420 Air Passengers per Day Hotels/Guesthouses 16 24 56 Airlines B&Bs/Hostel rooms 24 Castles and 195 Destinations Beaches 155 Bridges cross in Dublin Cathedrals 42 Countries the River Liffey Cruise Ships Dublin Airport HOTEL EXCELLENT Major Sports 1,345,402 Stadia Georgian Squares Population of Dublin 2 5 Pubs 216 Activity Providers Parks & Gardens Voted one of the friendliest 56 750 cities in the world! Fáilte Ireland supported festivals and 4 27 11 events 17 102 in 2018 Theatres Nobel Prize Winners Restaurants Visitor attractions 909 Distilleries & Breweries 81,000 57,420 Air Passengers per Day Hotels/Guesthouses 16 24 56 Airlines B&Bs/Hostel rooms 24 Castles and 195 Destinations Beaches 155 Bridges cross in Dublin Cathedrals 42 Countries the River Liffey Cruise Ships Dublin Airport HOTEL EXCELLENT Major Sports 1,345,402 Stadia Georgian Squares Population of Dublin 2 5 Pubs 216 Activity Providers Parks & Gardens Voted one of the friendliest 56 750 cities in the world! Fáilte Ireland supported festivals and 4 27 11 events 17 102 in 2018 Theatres Nobel Prize Winners Restaurants Visitor attractions 909 Distilleries & Breweries VISITDUBLIN.COM RESTAURANTS, CAFÉS AND BARS BAO HOUSE BOEUF BUJO www.facebook.com/BaoIreland/ www.boeuf.ie www.bujo.ie Some may know Bao Now which pops Boeuf opened in late 2017 on South up at markets on the Mespil Road and William Street. Serving prime Irish A fast-food restaurant for adults. The Spencer Dock, but now we have Bao beef with a French flare, this is a casual menu is simple; three choices of burger House on Aungier Street. Serving bao steakhouse serving food in a welcoming and two sides, washed down with a buns, a speciality associated with Taiwan, and relaxed setting. milkshake, house beer or wine. Bao House go the extra mile and make their own from scratch. BONSAI BAR CLANBRASSIL HOUSE/ CLANBRASSIL COFFEE SHOP BERLIN-D2 www.thebonsaibar.com www.clanbrassilhouse.com This is Dylan McGrath’s newest venture, www.twitter.com/@BerlinCafeD2 located in the former Bar Rustic, above Clanbrassil House is a casual little Berlin-d2, now located on Dame Lane, the Rustic Stone and below Taste.