Order a Spice Bag Like a LocalFind a chipper, ask for a spice bag, and resist the urge to read the ingredients. It's chips, chilli chicken and chaos in a brown bag, and it's officially in the dictionary now.Food & DrinkEasy30 min
Build the Sacred Tayto SandwichBuy cheese-and-onion Tayto crisps and squash them between two slices of buttered white bread. Eat in public, crunch loudly, and accept the knowing nods from passing Dubs.Food & DrinkEasy15 min
Leave Molly Malone AloneVisit the statue on Suffolk Street and pointedly do not rub her chest for luck. Locals are campaigning to end the tradition, so be the tourist who just waves.CultureEasy15 min
Buy Lemon Soap Where Joyce DidPop into Sweny's, a tiny 1840s pharmacy frozen in time and run by volunteers, and buy a bar of lemon soap exactly like Leopold Bloom did. Stay for a Joyce passage read aloud.Hidden GemEasy25 min
Find the Iveagh Gardens WaterfallSlip into the hidden Iveagh Gardens and follow the sound of water to a waterfall built over stones from all 32 counties. Half of Dublin walks past the gate without ever going in.Hidden GemEasy30 min
Claim a Victorian Snug in Kehoe'sWedge into the tiny enclosed snug at Kehoe's, a pub-grocer since 1803, and nurse one quiet pint. It's a little wooden confession box for drinking, built for discreet sipping.SocialEasy45 min
Master the Sacred Guinness WaitOrder a pint of Guinness and then do absolutely nothing for the two-minute settle. Reach for it early and the bar will silently judge you; let it rest and surge like a proper local.Local DetailEasy20 min
Make Eye Contact With a Bog BodyStroll into the free National Museum on Kildare Street and find the Iron Age bodies preserved in peat for two thousand years. One still has fingerprints, which is unsettling.Rainy DayEasy45 min
Strike a Pose at the Phil Lynott Statue off Grafton StreetTrack down the life-sized statue of Thin Lizzy's Phil Lynott beside Bruxelles pub, off Grafton Street. Strike an air-bass pose while buskers nearby butcher 'Whiskey in the Jar'.Photo HuntEasy15 min
Decode Dublin's Statue SlangFind two of the city's nicknamed statues, like the Floozie and the Tart with the Cart, and learn the rude rhyme Dubliners gave each. Bonus points for using one in conversation.WeirdMedium1 hr
Beat the deer to breakfast in Phoenix ParkLace up for an early run down the tree-lined Chesterfield Avenue in Phoenix Park, where Dublin's runners share the grass with 600 wild fallow deer most active at dawn. Loop the People's Flower Gardens end and you have logged a few kilometres before the city wakes.ActiveMedium45 min
Run the firm sand of Dollymount StrandJog the five-kilometre compacted sand of Dollymount Strand on North Bull Island, the flat seaside stretch where Clontarf locals run, walk and watch seals bob at the north end. The harder the sand, the faster you fly and the better the Dublin Bay views.ActiveEasy40 min
Hold a duck summit at St Stephen's GreenBring some oats (skip the bread, the ducks prefer it) to the lake at St Stephen's Green, where generations of Dublin kids have negotiated with the resident waterfowl beside the ornamental waterfall. The newly rubberised playground is a few steps away for round two.FamilyEasy30 min
Spot deer then conquer the Flower Gardens playgroundWander the 22-acre Victorian People's Flower Gardens in Phoenix Park, scanning the fields for grazing fallow deer before letting the small ones loose on the lakeside playground. The ornamental fowl on the pond are a free warm-up act, and entry costs nothing.FamilyEasy1 hr
March the sea wall to the little red lighthouseWalk the granite Great South Wall out into Dublin Bay to the candy-red Poolbeg Lighthouse from 1768, with the striped Poolbeg chimneys watching over you the whole way. There are no railings, so keep little hands held, but the salt-spray adventure is hard to beat.FamilyMedium1 hr