The house is absolutely ideal for a stay in Dublin, as a tourist, or for work. 10-15m walk to most places in the centre of the city, close to the Mater hospital in the north of the city, just off the main road out to the airport (I got to the airport by cab in 20m on Friday afternoon). A Victorian inner-city cottage with a small patio outside, beautifully and ingeniously modernized with two quite separate spaces downstairs divided by a glazed wall -- room to sit and read or work at an island in the super-well-equipped kitchen, room to relax or sit at the table for four in the sitting room at the front of the house. Lovely purpose-made stairs to the two bedrooms upstairs -- very comfortable beds, lots of hanging space, shower with power and easy controls, near-instant and constant hot water. Full five-hob gas cooker, new inbuilt microwave and oven ... Sky and WiFi (good, not super good). Easy self check-in and even easier to leave. We loved it.
If you don't know Dublin you should be aware that this is in an area that is very typical of the inner city -- it's not gentrified, it's a mixture of rough, ready and down-to-heel, and beautiful old Georgian streets and squares, cheek by jowl. But it is perfectly safe, and a vibrant and increasingly multi-cultural place, representative of a great city still recovering from a tough last ten years but with so much to see, do and enjoy -- and you are so close to the centre. The huge array of shops between Henry St and the river are about 5-10m walk away -- locally you have a reasonable Spar and other smaller shops and cafés.