Did Our Dublin Itinerary Disappoint Us? A Short Weekend in Dublin, Ireland! 

If you like a written itinerary of things to do in Dublin, we put together one for you: chrisplusmelissa.com/dublin-ireland-in-48-hours-where-to-stay-eat-visit/

Whoa! If you follow our channel, you might be thinking, "Hey! You moved to Portugal!" We did! But we still have 3 or 4 videos in the video vault of Irish adventures! Today, Dublin! Cork and Kinsale are a coming! Stay tuned. After that, we'll get on to our adventures in Portugal!

We’re headed to Ireland next May, I’ve saved all of your Ireland videos to watch again including this one

Great video guys! We've been living in Dublin for a year and a half and we love this city! Good shoots and editing, congrats 👏🏿

Fantastic video of Dublin. I have a friend visiting soon and I am showing him Dublin and you have provided me with a lovely venue to have food "The Church", I have never heard of it before so I will be checking it out. Kilmainham is amazing, an incredibly emotional tour, we see first hand the persecution of the Irish and for me as an Irish person it feels such an assault on my ancestors to have endured such treatment. Kilmainham will be familiar to many who have seen the movie "In the name of the father" will Danial DeLewis. Guinness is a tour I was not a fan of, I think it needs to be guided or more audio interactive as I found it overwhelming, too much to read and follow, but the reward up top is a pleasure with a pint of the "black stuff". Book Kells and Trinity college and library is amazing and a real treat and a place I return to often. Great video and thank you for exploring our capital city and showing it off. Oh you cursed yourself by saying Dublin was the first place you had to cope with rain, little did you know how Skellig Michael would test you. Thanks, now on to another video.

You guys are so addictive, love your banter and fun, loved much from Ireland

Yet again Melissa & Chris you gave an object lesson on travel blogging...enthusiasm, passion and curiosity tinged with wit & charm. I spent much of my bookbinding apprenticeship years between 1966 and '71 in Dublin and was always in awe of it and you reawakened it with your insights and all-round skilful and imaginative editing...please take several curtain bows.

Looks like y’all had a fabulous time! The food look delish 🥰

Hi Chris & Melissa, Referring to the ha'penny bridge in Dublin...yes there were half pennies and, would you believe, quarter pennies...they were called farthings. That all changed when Ireland went decimal so instead of Pounds, Shillings & Pence it is simply Euros & Cents.

Good job guys. I've done all those sites but it's good to see it from an outsiders perspective. I noticed the rain that is absent from your other clips , you obviously brought the good weather with you from the states.

Yes, that was crossfire from the Easter Rising. That whole part of Dublin was destroyed holes at the post office also in the columns. If you get back to Dublin, go to Boxty House, really great Irish food I love Boxty. The national Gallery is where you need to go when you go back. They have Caravaggio’s taking of the Christ. It’s so spectacular. Also, I love expressionism and artist Jack B Yeats the man whom painted Ireland. Their collection of Dutch and Flemish artist is unmatched

One of your best videos yet! Watching Melissa conversing with a raspberry donut really got things going and then, watching Chris drink his head off proved he knows how to handle a Guinness! Cherrio to you two! Keep them coming!

Great video 👍 👍 Love the pair of you, are addictive to watch. As many people know, the heart wrenching-ballad Grace tells the true story of Grace Gifford and Joseph Plunkett, who were married in Kilmainham Gaol hours before he was executed by firing squad for his role in the Easter Rising of 1916. "Oh Grace just hold me in your arms and let this moment linger They'll take me out at dawn and I will die With all my love I place this wedding ring upon your finger There won't be time to share our love for we must say goodbye." The cherished Irish song was originally written in 1985 by Frank and Séan O'Meara, and has been performed many times and by many people over the years, including by Rod Stewart-- who once visited Grace's grave to lay flowers-- but it is the Wolfe Tones' version which is arguably the best-known. But what of the woman herself, who is buried in Glasnevin cemetery close to her husband's final resting place? How did she find herself at the centre of the struggle for Ireland's independence? Grace Gifford was born in Dublin to a Protestant mother and Catholic father in 1888, 28 years before the failed rising at the GPO which would inspire Ireland to finally break free of the British Empire. A talented artist, whose work focused on cartoons, Grace was active in the Republican movement despite being raised Protestant and living an affluent childhood. She is known to have had a deep interest in Catholicism-- which was exacerbated when she met her future husband, Joseph Plunkett. Grace met her future husband through her brother-in-law Thomas MacDonagh, another future martyr for Irish freedom, who was married to her sister Muriel. Grace studied and was indoctrinated into the Catholic church after Joseph proposed to her in 1915-- the pair planned a double wedding with his sister and her fiancé, and the wedding date was set for Easter Sunday, 1916. But instead, the failed uprising, now known as the Easter Rising of 1916, took place, and Joseph was captured and imprisoned in Dublin's Kilmainham Gaol along with the other leaders, including Thomas MacDonagh. Hearing that her fiancé was to be executed by firing squad at dawn, Grace bought a ring from a Dublin jewelers and pleaded with the military authorities to allow their wedding to take place. As the famous song goes, Grace and Joseph were married on the grounds of the prison, hours before Joseph Plunkett was executed for his role in the Easter Rising. Grace Gifford-Plunkett died in 1955 at the age of 67, and was buried with full military honours, close to her husband's final resting place in Glasnevin Cemetery. Grace the song ,beautiful and heartbreaking

Love this video between the 45 minute walk to a delayed sandwich shop getting your lunch replaced by burritos to the pictures on your Genesis and the history behind all of your tour stops. I really loved this video. And wonder what the half penny would be worth today with inflation.

What I love about Dublin is that you can smell the Guinness Brewery all around the city and it smells like roasted coffee. 😊

I absolutely loved your review of dublin you got it spot on about literally dub

Dublin is full of unbelievable people with outstanding personality.....fun is our default position. Dublin bloke with one love Dublin. Sad I know but fun...

Daniel O Connell you may have missed his house on the road to the beach in Cahirdaniel on the ring of Kerry.

Love your videos!! I’m in Minneapolis and will be in Ireland (Galway/Killarney/Cork/Dublin and day trips) and appreciate your tips!! Thanks

May I just say you are two Americans I really like

I went to Ireland the first time, in 1978. I was HIGHLY DISAPPOINTED to find the actual Book of Kells was in PITTSBURGH. I lived in New Jersey at the time. I didn't try to see it this past time. I didn't have enough time in Dublin. I quickly went to Cork. I did get to the National Leprechaun Museum,which was well worth the visit. The ladies there were very nice and well informed. The museum is in Jarvis, just off the Lua at Jarvis. It is one block, maybe two from the Ha' Penny Bridge. The Guinness Distillery is on Saint James Gate across from Saint James Hospital. The hospital itself has an interesting history,although I don't think it has anything open to the public.

You guys make me remembering so much memories... The visit of Guinness, ouf! Ooooh! and Molly Malone... my ultimate most see the first time I went to Dublin... in memory of my grand-mother who was half Irish and sang that famous song to us all in the family while we were growing up... (and without saying that if we wanted to make our sister cry, we would sing that song... even to this day and she's now 68!!!) so yes, a lot of memory... the last time I went to Dublin, I was with my said sister...just seeing the statue she started to cry... ;-) Oh and on another more serious note.... Trinity College, the library... oh my gosh... the first time I saw that I was sixteen years old and was flabbergasted... the Book of Kells... my word... that threw my mind off... The O'Connell bridge, it was the Easter Sunday if my memory serves... aaah, so much good memories of my travels there...I want so bad to go back!!! But the timing is not good right now!!!

I know I sounded rude but you both so lovely 😍

Not only did they have a halfpenny but also a quarter penny called a farthing.

Hi guy's I recommend travel out to howth bay and howth summit the next time yous are exploring dublin depending on the weather of course. Accessible by train/dart or dublin bus hope yous enjoy.

We had a quarter penny coin too.

As a Native Dubliner/Irishman I ABSOLUTELY LOVE when tourist vloggers report on Kilmainhan Jail and that experience... (You guys appeared moved by it, I'm impressed...) It's NOT where everybody goes, BUT, it's a great starting point for those interested in Modern Irish History and the fight for independence... The guided tour is excellent. (That STILL governs elements of 'The Irish Psyche'...) NOT THAT WE HATE THE ENGLISH NOW!!!!! WE DON'T! (But we did once!!!) Kilmainham Jail still has ghosts... (Not ACTUAL ghosts but a ghostly aura...) Of course, merely as a CRIMINAL PRISON (before it housed revolutionaries) Kilmainham was no different from other mainland British prisons at the time (18th/19th/20th Centuries...) Tiny children were routinely incarcerated for small thefts or 'shoplifting', gay men were jailed for 'buggery', prostitutes were jailed there... (Many AS YOU POINT OUT to await transportation to Australia, with no way of ever returning...) Conditions in Kilmainham for those people were beyond horrific. (REALLY BAD FOOD, freezing cells, casual brutalisation...) The funniest/strangest thing is that AT THE TIME Kilmainham was considered a 'humane' and even 'progressive' prison... (And at the time IT WAS!!!!) xx SF (Just an aside... Is CHRIS actually Billy Joel?????? *LAUGHING!!!!)

New subscriber here. Great video production guys, with much interesting & helpful content! We're heading to Paris, then onto Ireland end of this year & we'll be travelling around the country for almost 6 weeks, so needless to say, we're super excited & cannot wait to leave for Ireland. And of course, your itinerary will prove very helpful & give us a few great ideas. We really love "The Church Cafe"! It appears to be an absolutely awesome place to spend some quality/fun time! I love the traditional Irish music & live dancing downstairs & for that alone, we can't wait! We're also looking forward to seeing Trinity College Library & the famous, "Book of Kells". Of course, there's so much more that we intend to see/do across Dublin & beyond, as we'll be driving around Ireland. The many castles, historic ruins, pubs & Christmas Markets should be awesome to visit too! Thanks for sharing & here's wishing you both well. Cheers, from beautiful Tasmania, Australia.

You probably saw nearly all thats to be seen in dublin ,there is other things but for ashort trip thats as much as you can see

Chris , you are lovely guys , when you bring your shopping trolley back you get your money back

I'm in Kinsale this week and you moved to Portugal? I'm trying not to take it personally, but... 😁

Arthur Guinness (the founder of the brewery) was married in "The Church" (back when it was actually a church!)

As a Dub I must commend you on not showing Temple Bar. This place is a tourist trap and I feel bad when tourists flock there in their droves. There are roughly 750 pubs in Dublin so you won't miss out on pubs if you don't go to Temple Bar. Plus you'll save a fortune.

Did you not notice the windows at Guinnesses were all bricked up and not allowing natural light in, that was due to Taxes you would have to pay to the British back in the 1700s so the windows were bricked up to avoid having to pay the Tax.

Chris you are such a hard task master but melissa comes up trumps everytime

I don't like doughnuts (European spelling) but those look pretty. I love Dublin too.

If you like Celtic Art Chris+ Melissa's you will like Jim Fitzpatrick's work. Discovered your videos today you both have a very natural easy presentation. The Book of Conquests, the retelling of a cycle of Irish myths, the Lebor Gabála Érenn. The book is a retelling of the legends of the coming of the Tuatha dé Dannan to Ireland and their fight with the Fir Bolg. The illustrations include intricate Celtic scrollwork and knotwork, for which Fitzpatrick has become known. A second book, The Silver Arm, is based on the deeds of Nuada of the Silver Arm and Lugh in their fight with the Formor, his most famous single piece is a two-tone portrait of Che Guevara created in 1968

I’m doing one day and night selecting where to go well that’s a issue

If you have limited time in Dublin you might want to give the Guinness tour a miss. Seriously. The standard tour does not have a human telling you the history or answering questions and it's just a long walk up circular stairs for an underwhelming pour of Guinness. Much better to sit in a local pub, get a proper pour and chat with the folks at the bar. Sure, go take the required pic/selfie by St. James Gate but keep on keeping on - at least that's how we saw it.

The book of Kells is one of the most overrated attractions in the country. Thankfully the Long Library which is included in the price if admission makes up for it, especially if you’re a Star Wars fan. Disappointing that you went to Starbucks when Ireland has some of the best coffee in the world imho.

How much did it cost you in Ireland?

Kilmaimham jail was British summery justice.....says alot

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