If you’ve only made it as far as Temple Bar to pay €9 for a pint of Guinness, you’ve missed out on loads, writes Kirstie McCrum
Think about the places an hour from Manchester and you will probably come up with some nice days out: Bakewell, with its puddings; historic Lancaster; even Bradford with its museums. But when you find out that the Irish capital is an hour on the plane from Manchester Airport, how can you resist?
On a quiet Thursday morning, I went straight to the menu and ordered avocado toast with smoked salmon and poached eggs and woke up with a good coffee. I had a vague idea of where I wanted to visit, but I hadn’t plotted out a course, so I used my iPhone map and set my route to MoLI - the Museum of Literature Ireland.
The building has many windows and open spaces, capturing the light in exhibits and offering different dimensions to the spaces you walk into. The first hall shows the names and images of many of Ireland’s great writers, and it is a dazzling list - Joyce, of course; Samuel Beckett, Oscar Wilde, Louis Macneice, JM Synge - so many iconic names, and so fabulous to see them respected in such beautiful collections come from the National Library of Ireland.
Browsing the high street, I saw a few familiar shops and a few unfamiliar ones, and then, as if by chance, stumbled across the bronze statue of Molly Malone. The fictional fishmonger is the star of a well-known Irish song, and the statue itself is a must-see for tourists from around the world. She looked unimpressed by all of the posing going on around her.
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