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In the middle is an elegant
spire and at the north end is Storehouse
the monument to Charles St. James’s Gate, Dublin 8. Tel 01-408
Stewart Parnell (1846–91).
4800. @ 51B, 78A, 123. Open daily.
Closed Good Fri, Dec 24–26, Jan 1.
e Parnell Square & 7 - 0 =
∑ guinness-storehouse.com
@ 3, 11A, 13, 16A, 19A, 38 and many
others. Dublin Writers Museum: 18 Guinness is a black beer, known
Parnell Sq North. Tel 01-872 2077. as “stout,” renowned for its
Open daily. Closed Dec 25 & 26. distinctive malty flavor and
& ∑ writersmuseum.com smooth creamy head. The The Phoenix Column
Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane: Guinness brewery site at St.
Charlemont House. Tel 01-222 5550. James’s Gate is the largest brew- t Phoenix Park
Open Tue–Sun. Closed Dec 24–27 & ery in Europe, and exports beers Park Gate, Conyngham Rd, Dublin 8.
public hols. ∑ hughlane.ie to more than 120 countries. @ 25, 66, 67, 68, 69. Open daily.
The World of Guinness Visitor Center: Tel 01-677 0095.
The square at the top of exhibition is housed in a 19th- Open daily (Jan–Mar: Wed–Sun only).
O’Connell Street looks sadly century warehouse, used for 7 limited. Zoo: Tel 01-474 8900.
neglected. Even so, it contains a hop storage until the 1950s. It Open daily. & = - 0 7
number of noteworthy sights, chronicles 200 years of brewing ∑ dublinzoo.ie
including the Rotunda Hospital, at St. James’s Gate. The tour starts
Europe’s first purpose-built in a Victorian kieve (or mash Just to the west of the city
maternity hospital, opened in filter), and goes on to examine center, ringed by an 11-km
1757. Its chapel has some fine all other stages of the brewing (7-mile) wall, is Europe’s largest
Rococo stuccowork. The former process. Displays show how enclosed city park. The name
grand supper room of production methods “Phoenix” is said to be a
the hospital is now the have changed over corruption of the Gaelic Fionn
Gate Theatre, famous the years since Uisce, or “clear water.” The
for producing 1759, when Arthur Phoenix Column is crowned by a
new plays. Guinness took over statue of the mythical bird. The
On the north side the backstreet park originated in 1662, when
of the square, two brewery. Guinness the Duke of Ormonde turned
grand 18th-century started brewing ale, the land into a deer park. It was
townhouses have but was aware of a opened to the public in 1745.
been converted into Arthur Guinness black beer called Near Park Gate is the lakeside
museums: the Dublin “porter,” popular in People’s Garden. A little further
Writers Museum, devoted to London’s markets. He developed on are the Zoological Gardens,
Irish literature, and the Dublin a new recipe for porter (the which are renowned for the
City Gallery, The Hugh Lane. The word “stout” was not used until breeding of lions, including
latter houses the Impressionist the 1920s). So successful was the first mascot to feature in the
paintings bequeathed to Dublin the switch that he made his introduction to the MGM movies.
Corporation by Sir Hugh Lane, first export shipment in 1769. The park has two very
who died on the torpedoed liner The tour ends with a conspicuous monuments. The
Lusitania in 1915. The square also complimentary pint of Guinness Wellington Testimonial is a 63 m
has a Garden of Remembrance, in the Granty Bar, where visitors (204 ft) obelisk, begun in 1817
opened in 1966, on the 50th can also enjoy 360-degree and completed in 1861. Its
anniversary of the Easter Rising. views of the city. bronze bas-reliefs were made
from captured French cannons.
The 27 m (90 ft) steel Papal
Cross marks the spot where
the pope said Mass in front of
one million people in 1979.
Buildings within the park
include two 18th-century
houses: Áras an Uachtaráin,
the Irish President’s official
residence, for which 525 tickets
are issued every Saturday for a
free guided tour, and Deerfield,
home of the US ambassador.
Ashtown Castle is a restored
17th-century tower house, now
The Gallery of Writers at the Dublin Writers Museum, Parnell Square the Phoenix Park Visitor Centre.

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