Dublin - Docklands (PDF Chapter)

This is the Docklands chapter from Lonely Planet’s Dublin guidebook.

Home to digital tech giants including Google, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, the stretch from the Irish Financial Services Centre (IFSC) down to Grand Canal Dock on both sides of the Liffey has been dubbed the Silicon Docks.

• visit the Jeanie Johnston, a working replica of a 19th-century ‘coffin ship’, as the barques transporting emigrants during the Famine were known
• maps
• contemplate the Famine while walking gently among Rowan Gillespie’s thought-provoking bronze statues at the Famine Memorial
• transport
• attend a gig at the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, a spectacular theatre designed by Daniel Libeskind.
• restaurants & accommodation

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