Grafton Street to the National Museum Travel Guide

South of College Green stands the statue of Molly Malone, whose famous cry "alive, alive, o" could well describe Grafton Street , the vibrant stretch of pedestrianized road that runs from here to St Stephen's Green. The streets that surround Grafton Street frame Dublin's quality shopping area, where, in designer clothing stores and chic cafés, affluent Dubliners flaunt and dispose of their new-found prosperity. East of here is elegant Kildare Street, the most impressive legacy of the city's eighteenth-century wealth on which stands Leinster House , a magnificent Georgian town house which is now home to the Irish Parliament.