Things To Do For Free/Cheap in Dublin City
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Have you found it difficult to control the deer on the cliffs?
Tea with Mary in the Vice-Regal Lodge, sorry, Áras afterwards?
A stroll up or down the canals, St. Stephen's Green or Herbert Park.
Get near the seat of the action with a walk around Fitzwilliam Square and down to Merrion Square.
Cross the Liffey (very briefly) and visit my birth-place at the Rotunda, noting the lack of a plaque outside, then leg it back soutwards.
Stand in awe of the architectural magnificence around College Green, wander around Trinity and visit St. Andrew's Church in Westland Row, reversing your route back towards Merrion Square, past HQ and around quirky little Ely Place and down to St Stephen's Green again.
On Saturday mornings they do free tours of Aras an Uctarain. You go to the visitors centre at Ashtown gate and you get a ticket for a tour that day. You can be unlucky though if anything is going on at the Aras then the tour os canceled.
The visitors centre is worth a visit too and if you have kids there's a great playground there.
The visitors centre is worth a visit too and if you have kids there's a great playground there.
Not at all, I have a specialised set of deer reins.
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Were they dear ?
Check out the event guide available free in lots of pubs,cafes in Temple Bar or in the libraries like the Iilac library- it lets you know what's going on..
To visit-Christchurch is v, cheap- about 2.50e per person...the vaults underneath are cool....also St Michans Church on Church st- again a few euros-although I'm not sure if it's open on Sat- the tour is v. entertaining- and they have mummified corpses in the vaults you can go into and see...
Check out the Phoenix park website-they have a market first Sat/Sunday of every month- often they have other things going on-outdoor concerts etc...check out the docklands..often festivals going on there...also the Temple Bar website-they have lots of stuff going on-outdoor movies etc....the area calls itself the 'Old Town' ..there is food market every Sat and on Cow's lane nearby there is a craft market some Saturdays- you'd need to check when exactly it's on...
The Chester Beatty library/museum off Dame st is good to visit and free...nice gardens outside Dublin Castle too...
The Padraig Pearse museum in Rathfarnham is recently reopened- it's interesting and again in lovely grounds...
At the moment there is a big wheel and a selection of stalls on Wolfe Tone Square behind the Church on Henry st...so there is loads of things to do if you do a bit of research...I'd also second the suggestion -to go out to Howth and walk up the hill or the pier..alternatively go south to Dartry and walk up Killiney Hill....hope you enjoy your visit!
To visit-Christchurch is v, cheap- about 2.50e per person...the vaults underneath are cool....also St Michans Church on Church st- again a few euros-although I'm not sure if it's open on Sat- the tour is v. entertaining- and they have mummified corpses in the vaults you can go into and see...
Check out the Phoenix park website-they have a market first Sat/Sunday of every month- often they have other things going on-outdoor concerts etc...check out the docklands..often festivals going on there...also the Temple Bar website-they have lots of stuff going on-outdoor movies etc....the area calls itself the 'Old Town' ..there is food market every Sat and on Cow's lane nearby there is a craft market some Saturdays- you'd need to check when exactly it's on...
The Chester Beatty library/museum off Dame st is good to visit and free...nice gardens outside Dublin Castle too...
The Padraig Pearse museum in Rathfarnham is recently reopened- it's interesting and again in lovely grounds...
At the moment there is a big wheel and a selection of stalls on Wolfe Tone Square behind the Church on Henry st...so there is loads of things to do if you do a bit of research...I'd also second the suggestion -to go out to Howth and walk up the hill or the pier..alternatively go south to Dartry and walk up Killiney Hill....hope you enjoy your visit!
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Dear O dear Mathepac, that's dire. And budgies are cheep-cheep
J
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Johnno09,
I write a weekly Event Guide that focuses on free events. It is completely free (so I hope this post doesn't count as advertisement!) and is sent by e-mail to all subscribers. The slightly boring but very accurate name for it is "Dublin Event Guide for Free Events", and it started as an e-mail to 20 friends (that's where the descriptive but not very exciting name came from) in June 2007. In the meantime the readership has reached more than 3400 subscribers and is growing on a daily basis.
To subscribe, just send an e-mail to [email protected] (You will NOT get any Spam and your mail address will not be shared with anyone!). I will add you to the list and you will get the weekly newsletter every Friday morning. Unsubscribing is easy as well, so no risk.
Be warned, the newsletter is VERY long because there are SOOOOO many free things happening in Dublin every week. There are concerts/gigs, festivals, talks, exhibitions, lots to do for children and adults.
By the way: My "Dublin Event Guide for Free Events" has nothing to do with "the event guide", which WAS a printed fortnightly newspaper-style publication and has now ceased publication of the printed issue, but plans to be online only from now on.
I don't usually write about all the regular free museums, but here is a quick list for you: National Museum, National Gallery, Hugh Lane Gallery, Chester Beaty Library, National Library, Garda Museum, Aras an Uachtarain (Saturday guided tour), etc.
Regards,
--Joerg
P.S. This is my first post here, because one of the subscribers to my weekly newsletter told be about this thread a few minutes ago and suggested that I let you know.
I write a weekly Event Guide that focuses on free events. It is completely free (so I hope this post doesn't count as advertisement!) and is sent by e-mail to all subscribers. The slightly boring but very accurate name for it is "Dublin Event Guide for Free Events", and it started as an e-mail to 20 friends (that's where the descriptive but not very exciting name came from) in June 2007. In the meantime the readership has reached more than 3400 subscribers and is growing on a daily basis.
To subscribe, just send an e-mail to [email protected] (You will NOT get any Spam and your mail address will not be shared with anyone!). I will add you to the list and you will get the weekly newsletter every Friday morning. Unsubscribing is easy as well, so no risk.
Be warned, the newsletter is VERY long because there are SOOOOO many free things happening in Dublin every week. There are concerts/gigs, festivals, talks, exhibitions, lots to do for children and adults.
By the way: My "Dublin Event Guide for Free Events" has nothing to do with "the event guide", which WAS a printed fortnightly newspaper-style publication and has now ceased publication of the printed issue, but plans to be online only from now on.
I don't usually write about all the regular free museums, but here is a quick list for you: National Museum, National Gallery, Hugh Lane Gallery, Chester Beaty Library, National Library, Garda Museum, Aras an Uachtarain (Saturday guided tour), etc.
Regards,
--Joerg
P.S. This is my first post here, because one of the subscribers to my weekly newsletter told be about this thread a few minutes ago and suggested that I let you know.
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a joke to while away the time lol
Three Doctors discussing their countries medical achievements
> Israeli doctor says "We took a kidney out of one man and put it in
> another and he was out looking for work in 6 months."
>
> English doctor says "We took a lung out of one man and put it in
> another and he was out looking for work in 5 months!"
>
> Irish doctor says "We took an arsehole out of Offaly and put it in the
> Dail and the whole country was out looking for work in 3 months..."
>
>
Three Doctors discussing their countries medical achievements
> Israeli doctor says "We took a kidney out of one man and put it in
> another and he was out looking for work in 6 months."
>
> English doctor says "We took a lung out of one man and put it in
> another and he was out looking for work in 5 months!"
>
> Irish doctor says "We took an arsehole out of Offaly and put it in the
> Dail and the whole country was out looking for work in 3 months..."
>
>