This is the Day Trips from Dublin chapter from Lonely Planet’s Dublin guide-book.

Want to escape the city? This chapter includes the very best excursions from Dublin and they can each be completed in a day. Must-sees include Brú na Bóinne and Glendalough.

• sample local food in the seaside village of Howth, set at the foot of a bulbous head with fi-ne walks
• stroll the stunning gardens of Powerscourt Estate, and take in even better views of the surrounding countryside
• see how the 18th century super-rich lived at grand Castletown House
• walk the harbour of the picturesque, compact village of Dalkey
• explore the delightful north Dublin village of Malahide, with its 12th-century castle and 101 hectares of tended gardens

Coverage includes: Brú na Bóinne, Glendalough, Howth, Enniskerry & Powerscourt Estate, Castletown House & Around, Dalkey, Malahide.

This is the Docklands chapter from Lonely Planet’s Dublin guidebook.

Home to digital tech giants including Google, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, the stretch from the Irish Financial Services Centre (IFSC) down to Grand Canal Dock on both sides of the Liffey has been dubbed the Silicon Docks.

• visit the Jeanie Johnston, a working replica of a 19th-century ‘coffin ship’, as the barques transporting emigrants during the Famine were known
• maps
• contemplate the Famine while walking gently among Rowan Gillespie’s thought-provoking bronze statues at the Famine Memorial
• transport
• attend a gig at the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, a spectacular theatre designed by Daniel Libeskind.
• restaurants & accommodation

Coverage includes: Sights, Eating, Drinking & Nightlife, Entertainment, Shopping, Sports & Activities.

This is the Grafton Street & St Stephen’s Green chapter from Lonely Planet’s Dublin guidebook.

Grafton St and its surrounding precinct are a flexible feast of activities and sights, but it’ll take you two days to even begin to do them justice – and much longer to get to the heart of this part of the city.

• bask quietly in the aesthetic glow of the magnificent collection at Chester Beatty Library, one of the finest museums in Ireland
• maps
• stare in wonderment at the colourful pages of the Book of Kells, the world’s most famous illuminated gospel, before visiting the Old Library’s majestic Long Room.
• transport
• enjoy a sunny, summer afternoon on the grass of St Stephen’s Green, where Dubliners come to rest, romance and remind themselves of what makes life worth living
• restaurants & accommodation

Coverage includes: Neighbourhood Top Five, Local Life, Getting There & Away, Sights, Eating, Drinking & Nightlife, Entertainment, Shopping, Sports & Activities.

This is the Kilmainham & the Liberties chapter from Lonely Planet’s Dublin guidebook.

Dublin’s oldest and most traditional neighbourhoods, immediately west of the south city cen-tre, have a handful of tourist big hitters, not least the Guinness Storehouse, Dublin’s most-visited museum. Keeping watch over the ancient Liberties is St Patrick’s Cathedral.

• take a trip through Ireland’s troubled history at foreboding 18th-century Kilmainham Gaol, which housed many an Irish rebel
• maps
• sample a pint of Guinness at the factory where it all began in 1759 – and continues to this day
• transport
• get familiar with Irish whiskey at the first distillery to open in Dublin for more than a century, Teeling Distillery
• restaurants & accommodation

Coverage includes: Eating, Drinking & Nightlife, Entertainment, Shopping, Sports & Activities.

This is the Merrion Square & Around chapter from Lonely Planet’s Dublin guide-book.

Ireland’s national collections of art, history and natural history are to be found in the imposing neoclassical buildings that line the elegant Georgian streets and parks of the city’s best-maintained 18th-century neighbourhood.

• perusethe collection at the National Gallery, packed with art from eight centuries of Euro-pean tradition
• maps
• visit the antiquated Museum of Natural History, which has changed little since it was opened in the middle of the 19th century
• transport
• uncover the fascinating treasures of the most important repository of Irish culture, the Na-tional Museum of Ireland – Archaeology, from finely worked gold to prehistoric bodies
• restaurants & accommodation

Coverage includes: Sights, Eating, Drinking & Nightlife, Entertainment, Shopping, Sports & Activities.

This chapter contains the Welcome to Dublin, Dublin’s Top 10, What’s New, Need to Know, First Time Dublin, Top Itineraries, If You Like..., Month By Month, Travel with Kids, Like a Local, For Free, Eating, Drinking & Nightlife, Entertainment, Shopping, and Sports & Activities chapters from Lonely Planet’s Dublin guidebook.

Your journey to Dublin starts here. You’ll find the tools to plan your adventure: where to go and when, how much to budget, plus in-depth info on locals’ Dublin.

• tailor-made itineraries, arranged by region, themes and events
• list of highlights and best experiences
• everything you need to know about travelling with kids
• user-friendly country overview ensures you won’t miss a thing

Coverage includes: Welcome to Dublin, Dublin’s Top 10, What’s New, Need to Know, First Time Dublin, Top Itineraries, If You Like: Traditional Pubs, Modern Bars, Tra-ditional Music, Irish History, Admiring Art, Museum Meanders, Live Gigs, Green Spaces, Markets & Shopping, Literary Locations, Georgian Buildings, Eating Out, Free Stuff, Month By Month, Travel with Kids, Like a Local, For Free, Eating, Drinking & Nightlife, Entertainment, Shopping, and Sports & Activities.

This is the Temple Bar chapter from Lonely Planet’s Dublin guidebook.

You can visit all of Temple Bar’s attractions in less than half a day, but that’s not really the point: this cobbled neighbourhood, for so long the city’s most infamous party zone, is really more about ambience than attractions.

• feast on organic and exotic nibbles from all over, at Temple Bar Food Market, Dublin’s most exciting food market
• maps
• shop for all kinds of Irish traditional and folk music – as well as sounds from around the globe – in wonderful Claddagh Records
• transport
• visit the most impressive – from the outside at least – of Dublin’s three cathedrals, Christ Church Cathedral
• restaurants & accommodation

Coverage includes: Sights, Eating, Drinking & Nightlife, Entertainment, Shopping, Sports & Activities.

This is the North of the Liffey chapter from Lonely Planet’s Dublin guidebook.

Grittier than its more genteel southside counterpart, the area immediately north of the River Liffey offers a fascinating mix of 18th-century grandeur, traditional city life and the multicultural melting pot that is contemporary Dublin.

• nod sagely at the exquisite collection of modern and contemporary art at Hugh Lane Gal-lery
• maps
• sample a snifter of the hard stuff – that’s whiskey to you and me – after discovering how it’s made at the Jameson Distillery Bow Street
• transport
• learn the story of Dublin, from grandeur through difficult times, in the renovated Georgian mansion of 14 Henrietta Street
• restaurants & accommodation

Coverage includes: Sights, Eating, Drinking & Nightlife, Entertainment, Shopping, Sports & Activities.

This is the Southside chapter from Lonely Planet’s Dublin guidebook.

The neighbourhoods that border the southern bank of the Grand Canal are less about sights and more about the experience of affluent Dublin – dining, drinking and sporting occasions, both watching and taking part.

• cheer on Leinster or Ireland (in either rugby or football) at the Aviva Stadium
• maps
• stroll, sit or jog around glorious Herbert Park - an ideal way to spend a sunny day in Dub-lin
• transport
• visit the city’s fanciest cinema, the Stella Theatre, a restored art deco classic
• restaurants & accommodation

Coverage includes: Eating, Drinking & Nightlife, Entertainment, Shop-ping.

This chapter contains the Dublin Today, History, Literary Dublin, Musical Dublin, Architecture, The Irish Way of Life, Transport, and Directory A–Z chapters from Lonely Planet’s Dublin guidebook.

All the info you need on everything from history, music and culture to flights, public transport, climate, money, the internet... you name it. Get tips for women travellers, gay and les-bian travellers, travellers with disabilities, and travellers with kids. And get the most out of your conversations with a handy language guide and glossary.

• a rundown on Dublin today, and the Irish way of life
• info on from Yeats, Beckett, Joyce and the rest of literary Dublin
• full coverage of over 1000 years of eventful history
• details on music, from folk to electronica, that draws on the city’s musical genius

Coverage includes: Dublin Today, History, Literary Dublin, Musical Dub-lin, Architecture, The Irish Way of Life, Transport, and Directory A–Z.