One of Dublin's finest yet least known parks are the Iveagh Gardens located between Earlsfort Terrace (behind the National Concert Hall) and Harcourt Street.

Formed in the early 1970s out of Ceoltóirí Chualann, a traditional music ensemble founded by Sean O Riada (1931-1971), the Chieftains went on to gain vast and enthusiastic audiences all over the world for Irish traditional music and are still going strong.

The writer of the play 'She Stoops to Conquer' was born in Co Longford but spent his student years at Trinity College, Dublin.

Jonathan Swift in his long lifetime saw the transition of Dublin from being a small post-medieval town to a city of mansions, grand Georgian terraces and notable institutions.

Drummer Larry Mullen founded the band by advertising on the school notice board for potential band members. The poster attracted Adam Clayton (bass guitar), Paul Hewson (vocals), and Dave Evans (guitar).

A year after Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born at 21 Westland Row the family moved to no.1 Merrion Square . The statue to Oscar Wilde in Merrion Square Park stands opposite to his childhood home.

The Dubliners, a hard-hitting and initially outrageous and hard- drinking folk cum contemporary ballad group was formed in the 1960s.

Number 422 North Circular Road was the last Dublin home of playwright Sean O'Casey before he left for London in 1926.

George Bernard Shaw was born in no. 22 Synge Street. He hadn't the happiest of childhoods with his less than abstemious father becoming estranged from his much younger wife.

On 2 February 1882, James Joyce was born in no.41 Brighton Square to Corkman, John Stanislaus Joyce and his Longford wife, Mary Jane Murray.

Number 15, Marino Crescent was the birthplace in 1847 of Abraham (Bram) Stoker, the author of one of the world's most chilling novels, "Dracula".