Dating in Dublin, Ireland - Meet and Date Single Irish Men and Women in Dublin

Long known as the cultural and commercial center of Ireland, Dublin today has evolved into a world class city with ample opportunities for its citizens to have an active social life.

Currently Dublin is one of the fastest growing cities in Europe. The population of the administrative area controlled by the Dublin City Council was 505,739 in the 2006 census, while the population of the Dublin urban area was 1,045,769. One of the most significant aspects of Dublin’s demographic profile is its large foreign-born population. Dublin is in fact home to greater number of new arrivals in Ireland than elsewhere in the country. Most of the immigrants are from eastern European countries like Poland and Lithuania because of the relatively liberal borders among the EU countries. Non-European immigrants are mostly from China and Nigeria and Dublin in fact has a specific area known as Little Africa because of the concentration of African-origin immigrants there. The coming together of people belonging to various races and ethnicities has vastly heightened the cosmopolitan nature of Dublin where its singles can take advantage of the multi-cultural dating pool.

Lovers of art and culture have a lot to look forward to in Dublin and more so in each other’s company. It is not for nothing that in July this year Dublin was named as UNESCO City of Literature, joining the ranks of such well-known literary centers as Edinburg, Melbourne and Iowa. The city boasts of many libraries and literary museums where book aficionados can spend hours poring over the most priceless literary artifacts, paintings, manuscripts and literary collections of Ireland. The most famous of these are the National Print Museum of Ireland, National Library of Ireland, the Trinity College Library and the Chester Beatty Library. Apart from this Dublin is home to some of the best known poets, playwrights, novelists and philosophers in the English language like Nobel laureates William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw and Samuel Beckett as well as others including James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Jonathan Swift, Bram Stoker, J.M Synge and Sean O’Casey. The origin of so many reputed playwrights has ensured a lively theater scene in Dublin and some of the most popular dating venues of the city are playhouses like the Gaiety, the Abbey, the Olympia, the Gate, and the new Grand Canal Theatre.

As Ireland’s cultural hub, Dublin also boasts of several art galleries and museums. Some of the most important venues showcasing Ireland’s tradition of visual art include Irish Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery, the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, the City Arts Centre, the Douglas Hyde Gallery, the Project Arts Centre and the Royal Hibernian Academy while the area around St Stephens Green displays works by local artists. Apart from the visual arts, Dublin has a thriving culture of performing arts too with numerous dramatic, musical and operatic companies putting up shows for packed houses. At the forefront of Dublin’s performing companies are the Rathmines and Rathgars Musical Society while other famous names are Festival Productions, Lyric Opera Productions, the Pioneers Musical & Dramatic Society, the Glasnevin Musical Society,  Opera Theatre Company and Opera Ireland. Plays and productions put up by all these companies make for prized dating opportunities among the art and culture fans of Dublin’s singles.

Other highlights of Dublin’s cultural calendar are the various festivals hosted throughout the year. Single Dubliners can look forward to ample socializing opportunities during the Ulster Bank Dublin Theater Festival, Dublin Culture Night, the Ranelagh Arts Festival, the Horrorthorn Film Festival and the Dublin Flower Festival, all of which feature traditional celebrations with lots of food, drink, music, dance and theater. Diwali and the Chinese New Year celebrations are some of the most popular multicultural events while St Patrick’s Day, Easter and Christmas are the religious occasions celebrated with great fervor. The Dublin Fringe Festival is an as much an occasion for same-sex couples to celebrate their love as it is for others to stand by their freedoms.

Dublin has one of the liveliest nightlife among all European cities. Most of the trendy pubs, bars and nightclubs are located in the area around St Stephen’s Greens, particularly Harcourt Street, Camden Street, Wexford Street and Leeson Street. Besides these the Temple Bar area just south of River Liffey hosts several nightclubs popular with tourists and international students. All these destinations offer ample opportunities for young and single Dubliners to have a rollicking night out – meeting people and having fun. Music lovers are particularly drawn to the pubs and cafes where live music is played which may range from hard-rock to jazz and traditional Irish music. Dublin in fact is home to several world-renowned rock bands and musicians like U2, Dubliners, Westlife, The Thrills, Horslips, The Boomtown Rats, Boyzone, Ronan Keating, Thin Lizzy, Paddy Casey and Sinéad O'Connor.

Dubliners take great pride in their sporting activities as a result of which high-profile matches and after-match parties often make for ideal dating opportunities among its singles. Some of the most popular sporting venues of the city are the Croke Park, the Landsdowne Road Stadium and the Aviva Stadium. Other than soccer, rugby, cricket and boxing, the denizens of Dublin are equally fond of traditional sports like Gaelic Football, Hurling games, greyhound racing and horse racing. The world-famous Dublin Horse Show that takes place at RDS, Ballsbridge each year is as much a chance for the best-bred rides to prance around as it is for their human counterparts, especially the singles, to advertise themselves.

Today Dublin is one of the most youthful cities in Europe. Around 50% of its residents are believed to be younger than 25 years of age, according to an entry in irishexperience.com.  The presence of several reputed colleges and universities in Dublin as well as young immigrants arriving in the city to seek a better quality of life contribute to this demographic factor which in turn has developed Dublin to a hub of a large number of youth-based entertainments, recreational and cultural activities. Little wonder then that Dublin figures among the top 25 cities in the world according to the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, Longborough University.