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The museum houses letters, books and other memorabilia of Ireland's greatest writers. Shaw, Yeats, Beckett, Swift, Wilde, Joyce and Behan are all featured in this restored 18th century mansion.
St. Patrick's Cathedral - Dublin
St. Patrick's Cathedral was built by the first Anglo-Norman Bishop, John Comyn in 1192, on the site of a little wooden Church dedicated to St. Patrick. The famous Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver's Travels, is buried in the cathedral
Christ Church Cathedral - Dublin
The nave, in the Pointed style, dates from about 1230 and is very striking. Strongbow, the Anglo-Norman adventurer who conquered Dublin and married Aoife, daughter of the King of Leinster, is buried here.
Dublinia and The Viking World - Dublin
The exhibitions at Dublinia explore life in the medieval city and the world of the Vikings and are housed in a beautiful neo- Gothic Victorian building, the former Synod Hall of the Church of Ireland.
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