Trinity College: the cobbles, the Long Room, College Green
The Campanile, the Book of Kells, and the long dark library that hushes everyone who walks in. This is a Claude-drafted route awaiting the editor's walk.

1. Front Gate, College Green
Start under the long grey frontage facing the green and walk in through the arch. The statues either side are Burke and Goldsmith, both Trinity men. Past the gate the noise of the city drops by half in three steps — that's the trick of the place.

2. Parliament Square and the Campanile
The big cobbled square opens in front of you with the bell tower in the middle. Students will tell you walking under it makes you fail your exams; walk under it anyway, or round it if you're superstitious. The cobbles are the real ones — mind your ankles.

3. The Old Library and the Book of Kells
Ticketed, and worth booking ahead. The Book of Kells is a ninth-century gospel illuminated past reason, but the Long Room upstairs is the thing that stops people — a barrel-vaulted hall of two hundred thousand old books and a smell you don't forget.

4. Fellows' Square and the Berkeley
Round the back, the squares go modern — the brutalist Berkeley Library and Pomodoro's golden Sphere Within Sphere, cracked open to show its gears. A good place to sit on a bench and watch term-time go by.

5. College Green and the Bank of Ireland
Back out the front gate to the curved colonnade across the way — the old Irish Parliament, the first purpose-built two-chamber parliament house in the world, now a bank. The old House of Lords chamber survives inside; ask at the door whether it's open.

6. Dame Street
Finish by walking west down Dame Street toward the castle and the old city — the banks give way to bars and the pavement widens. The Trinity Luas stop is right behind you on the green if you'd rather end here.

Trinity College: the cobbles, the Long Room, College Green