Belfast, Northern Ireland
Albert Memorial Clock
This massive monument has been telling the time for 150 years—at a slight angle.
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Belfast, Northern Ireland
This massive monument has been telling the time for 150 years—at a slight angle.
Belfast, Northern Ireland
It was once nicknamed "the most bombed hotel in Europe."
Dublin, Ireland
The mummified heart of a saint lives on in this church—after a brief hiatus when it was stolen.
Dublin, Ireland
A statue in the center of Dublin dedicated to one of their favorite sons of rock & roll.
Dublin, Ireland
The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.
Dublin, Ireland
This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.
Dublin, Ireland
Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.
Dublin, Ireland
The block of aged dairy is probably still edible after 2,300 years in a peat bog.
Dublin, Ireland
These gigantic skeletons tower over visitors and provide insight into the creatures that once ruled over Ireland.
Dublin, Ireland
This courtly monument celebrates an influential comedian who turned taking the piss out of the powers-that-be into an art.
Dublin, Ireland
The house where the writer spent his formative years.
Dublin, Ireland
The 19th-century pharmacy (now a used bookstore) was featured in James Joyce’s "Ulysses," and has changed very little to this day.
Dublin, Ireland
More than 5,000 artifacts donated by the people of the city, plus a room entirely devoted to the band U2.
Dublin, Ireland
An enigmatic monument to the Irish revolutionary who plotted an uprising against British rule.
Dublin, Ireland
The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.
Dublin, Ireland
An 80-year-old plane tree is devouring an iron bench at Ireland's oldest law school.
Dublin, Ireland
Amidst the bustling streets of Dublin, there is a hushed garden that is dedicated to "All those who gave their lives in the cause of Irish Freedom."
Dublin, Ireland
The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.
Dublin, Ireland
The enchanting archway is the only surviving portal into Dublin’s lost medieval wall.
Galway, Ireland
A strange egg in a mucky bog of western Ireland marks the spot of an aviation milestone.
Connemara, Ireland
A stunning Victorian abbey and walled garden on a lakefront.
Corofin, Ireland
A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.
Ireland
Mortarless walls that stretch for miles are a lovely solution for creating grazing land in the harsh terrain of the Aran Islands.
Galway, Ireland
While only two of the ancient buildings at this site are actually churches this was one of the earliest Irish pilgrimage sites ever.