The north side across the Liffey — O'Connell Street, the Spire, the emigration museums and the everyday shopping the locals do. Less pretty and better value than the south, handy for the airport bus and the DART, with the real, un-touristed pulse of the city.
A look around
What you’ll be living next to. Swipe through.
€160–260
typical per night in Ireland
The sensible middle
Typical prices for Dublin — neither steal nor splurge.
Where it sits
The circle is O'Connell Street & the North City and roughly a 10-minute walk around it.
How far is everything?
From the middle of this area to the city's headline sights — pick your own on the city page and these become your list.
- Temple Bar & a trad session7 min walk620 m
- Trinity College & the Book of Kells11 min walk939 m
- Dublin Castle12 min walk969 m
- National Museum — Archaeology15 min walk1.3 km
- St Patrick's Cathedral17 min walk1.4 km
- St Stephen's Green17 min walk1.4 km
- Guinness Storehouse23 min walk1.9 km
- Kilmainham Gaol10 min taxi3.3 km
On your doorstep
What you’re living next to if you stay here.
- 11.EPIC — The Irish Emigration Museum — A surprising, fully interactive museum in the old docklands vaults telling how 10 million left this small island and shaped the world — presidents, outlaws, writers and saints. Repeatedly voted Europe's best attraction; a great, uplifting rainy-day couple of hours.
- 12.O'Connell Street & the GPO — The grand, wide boulevard of the north side — the towering stainless Spire, statues of the patriots, and the General Post Office whose columns still carry the bullet holes of the 1916 Rising launched from its steps. The stage for modern Irish history.
- 15.A full Irish breakfast — The national plate and a hangover's best friend — bacon, sausage, egg, black and white pudding, beans, grilled tomato and buttered soda bread, with a pot of tea. Find a proper café off O'Connell Street, order the works, and you won't need lunch.
When are you staying?
Booking.com & Airbnb open searched to O'Connell Street & the North City; flights via Google Flights.