• Dublin and Belfast
• 1. Dublin
• 2. Belfast
• 3. Cultural Scenes
• 4. Day Trips
• 5. Smart Splurges
• 6. Local Slant
• 7. When to Go
• 8. Currency and Tipping

Local Slant

Gene Kerrigan explores Dublin’s every corner in masterfully written crime novels like The Midnight Choir. We asked him for a short list of favorite old and new spots.
 
“If you use the Millennium pedestrian bridge to cross the Liffey from the Temple Bar area, you’ll find what’s known as the Italian Quarter. Mick Wallace is a builder who made a lot of money from the boom. Apart from football, Wallace is crazy about all things Italian. His Italian Quarter is hardly more than a laneway, with an Italian food shop at one end and his Enoteca Della Langhe wine bar at the other. My favorite place there is Bar Italia, where the food is great, the service is casual in the best sense of the word, and the prices are reasonable. For an older place, the seafront along Clontarf is great for walking—on one side are pleasant houses, on the other side is the sea. A great place to relax.”

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