Where Dublin Remembers Itself

Each of the eight sites below is a place where some essential strand of Dublin's history is still legible in stone. We have chosen them not because they are the most popular — though most are — but because together they form a coherent route through the city's eight hundred years: a Hiberno-Norse foundation, an Anglo-Norman castle, two medieval cathedrals, a renaissance university, a Queen Anne library, a Georgian public office, a republican prison, a neoclassical custom house. Walked in sequence, they tell the story.