At the top of Grafton Street lies St Stephen’s Green, a beautifully kept Victorian park and the city’s favourite patch of calm. Twenty-two acres of lawns, flowerbeds, a lake with ducks and a bandstand make it perfect for a picnic or a between-sights breather. Look out for the memorials to Yeats, Joyce and the 1916 Rising dotted among the paths. Bring lunch from a nearby cafe and grab a bench by the lake on a sunny afternoon.