Dublin

In Dublin, a train runs along the seaside.

Trams glide through the streets, and lots of buses go everywhere. Big ships sail into the port.

The DART train runs along the coast, from Howth and Malahide in the north to Greystones in the south, with views of the sea. A tram system began running from St. Stephen's Green in 2004, and city buses go almost everywhere.

Two main railway stations, Connolly and Heuston, link Dublin to the rest of Ireland. Dublin is Ireland's chief port, and the Dublin Port Tunnel, opened in 2006, takes trucks from the port straight to the motorways. The airport is just north of the city.

The Dublin Area Rapid Transit (DART) runs along the coast from Malahide and Howth in Fingal to Greystones in County Wicklow, a tram system from St. Stephen's Green began in 2004, and extensive bus services cover the city. Connolly station serves the north and northwest, Heuston the south, southwest and west, with intercity links to the rest of Ireland and Northern Ireland; the international airport is at Collinstown, just north of the city.

The Dublin Port Tunnel, Ireland's largest civil engineering project, opened in 2006 to link the port with the national motorway network. Port traffic has grown steadily since the 1990s, and the International Financial Services Centre, established in the former northern docks in 1987, began their regeneration as a business and residential district.

Dublin is never very hot or very cold.

Winters are cool and summers are mild. It rains a little on many days. Snow is rare.

Dublin has a mild, damp climate because it is beside the sea. In January, days average about 8 °C and nights about 2 °C. In July, days average about 20 °C and nights about 12 °C.

About 758 millimeters of rain falls in a year, spread across 10 to 13 days of rain in every month. October is the wettest month. Snow falls on fewer than 10 days a year.

Britannica describes a maritime temperate climate, with more rain in the surrounding mountains and fewer than 10 days of snow a year. World Meteorological Organization normals for 1981–2010 at the Dublin Airport station give mean daily maxima and minima of 8.1 °C and 2.4 °C in January and 19.5 °C and 11.7 °C in July.

Monthly totals add up to about 758 mm, from 49 mm in February to 79 mm in October, with 10 to 13 rain days in every month: rain is frequent but rarely heavy, and there is no dry season.

Dublin is a city of stories, poems and music.

Famous writers were born here. People play music in many places. Children cheer at games of hurling and Gaelic football.

Dublin is famous for its writers. Three winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature, George Bernard Shaw, William Butler Yeats and Samuel Beckett, were born in or near the city, and James Joyce's novel Ulysses is set here on one day, June 16, 1904. Every year on June 16, the city celebrates Bloomsday.

Dublin is known for its friendly welcome and its craic, a mix of fun, jokes and clever talk. Traditional Irish sports, hurling and Gaelic football, are played at Croke Park, and the city has given the world famous musicians such as the band U2.

Greater Dublin was the birthplace of three Nobel laureates in literature (Shaw, Yeats and Beckett), and Swift, Wilde, O'Casey, Behan, Burke and Joyce are linked with it; Ulysses (1922) follows a single Dublin day, June 16, 1904, now celebrated as Bloomsday. The Abbey Theatre, tied to Synge and Lady Gregory, reopened in 1966 after a fire, and the Gate Theatre Company (1928) launched Orson Welles and James Mason.

A cultural revival began with the Gaelic Athletic Association (1884) and the Gaelic League (1893); hurling and Gaelic football fill Croke Park. The Guinness Brewery has worked at St. James's Gate since 1759, though older industries declined from the 1970s as technology, electronics, chemicals and finance took their place. The Irish Stock Exchange has traded continuously since 1793. The Irish Travellers, some 5,000 of whom live in the Dublin area, were recognized as an ethnic group in 2017.