If you go to Dublin…
Where to stay
Central Hotel
Exchequer St., Dublin
011-353-1-679-7302
Blocks from Trinity College and Grafton Street and moderately priced. Its Library Bar is one of the city’s great meeting places: No TV, no music — just overstuffed chairs and the hum of conversation by the greatest conversationalists in the world. From $74.
What to do
Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art
Charlemont House
Parnell Square North
011-353-1-222-5550
Inside the front door is a massive marble bust of Michael Collins by Cork sculptor Seamus Murphy and there are many paintings by Sir John Lavery, a friend of Collins. It is rumored that Lavery’s American wife, Lady Hazel Lavery, was Collins’s secret lover.
Dublin Writers Museum
18Parnell Square
011-353-1-872-2077
In an 18th-century Georgian townhouse, one can view artifacts of Ireland’s numerous writers and also take a break at the Chapterhouse Cafe.
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