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The barrel-vaulted oak ceiling of the Long Room in Trinity College’s Old Library

Itinerary · Dublin, Ireland

Literary Dublin: libraries, writers and pubs

MoLI, the National Library, Trinity’s Old Library and Marsh’s, with a pint where the writers drank.

One day

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  1. 10:00

    1MoLI, the Museum of Literature Ireland

    St Stephen’s Green·Museum

    Ireland’s writers, on the Green.

  2. 12:00

    2National Library of Ireland

    Kildare Street·Library

    On Kildare Street.

  3. 14:00

    3Marsh’s Library

    The Liberties·Library

    Founded in 1707.

  4. 17:00

    4The Palace Bar

    Fleet Street·Pub

    A writers’ bar on Fleet Street.

  5. 20:00

    5Delahunt

    Camden Street·Restaurant

    A Victorian grocer’s in Ulysses.

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