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  • Geared more towards children than adults, with a Chamber of Horrors and a Wall of Mirrors as well as 300 wax exhibits (see Wax Museum).

  • Stuffed animals and skeletons illustrate the natural world through the ages.

  • This exhibition on Irish bogs is in the heart of the Bog of Allen.

  • Rotunda Hospital

    Designed by Richard Cassels, this was the first purpose-built maternity hospital in Europe when it opened in 1745. Inside is a beautiful Baroque chapel.

  • The first chapter of Ulysses (see James Joyce) was set here and a tiny museum contains Joyce memorabilia.

  • The family home of playwright George Bernard Shaw, where he lived until the age of 20, gives a great insight into Victorian domestic life.

  • This cobbled area, home to horse fairs on the first Sunday of the month, is also used for concerts.

  • Founded in 1139. All that remains of the abbey is the vaulted chapterhouse.

  • Catholic Dublin has not had its own cathedral since the Reformation but St Mary’s has been playing the part since 1825. It is home to the Palestrina choir, who sing the Sunday morning service.

  • The attraction at this 11th-century church is the macabre mummified bodies.

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