Dublin Castle. This a view from the Dubh Linn Garden behind the castle.  This view shows the best preserved of the castle's four Norman towers dating from the Thirteenth Century flanked by the state rooms of the Eighteenth Century and the Chapel of the Nineteenth.

Dublin City Hall is beside the castle. First built as the Exchange it has been restored in recent years and inside is a fantastic  and elegant single space under a dome held up by a ring of columns.

Berkley Library (1967) at Trinity College Dublin by ABK architects has a strong cubist form clad in high quality Wicklow Granite. Behind is the Museum by Dean and Woodward (1857) clad in similar stone and sparsely though beautifully decorated in imitation of a Venetian Palazzo

Time to head back up the road. This is the Custom House in Dublin one of the city’s fine set piece pieces of Eighteenth Century architecture. Designed by James Gandon it was completed in 1791. It is located near to Connolly Station and the train to Belfast