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Rick Steves’ Europe Season 2 Episode 8

Dublin’s story is of feast and famine – from its 18th-century Golden Age to its 20th-century struggles for independence to its boomtime today. We explore the town’s foreboding castle, patriotic jail, and Trinity College with its Book of Kells-a bright light in the Dark Ages. At night we party in Temple Bar, awash with Celtic music and frothy pints of Guinness. We side-trip to the prehistoric necropolis of Newgrange and the medieval monastery at Glendalough, tucked in the scenic Wicklow Mountains.

Episode Title: Dublin and Mystical Side Trips

Air Date: 2002-10-26