From the markets of the Liberties to the broad sweep of Grafton Street, the Guinness Brewery to the fine Georgian buildings of Merrion Square and St Stephen's Green, Dublin is a beguiling city. Travellers taking cheap flights to Dublin may not find the show-stopping attractions of other European cities, but it has bags of charm and a local population who love to "have the craic".
They also revere the written word. The literary tradition stretches back millennia. Trinity College Dublin houses the 7th-century Book of Durrow and 9th-century Book of Kells and the Dublin Writers Museum in Parnell Square brings to life literary figures from the past 300 years through their books and personal items.
Dublin - and Ireland - is as famous for its pub culture as it is for its artistic heritage. The city's most famous pubs have literary connections. Davy Byrne's is immortalised in James Joyce's epic Ulysses, McDaid's was a favourite of Brendan Behan's and other writers in the 1950s, and The Palace served the likes of Flann O'Brien and Patrick Kavanagh.
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