re: Dublin for St Patty's day - Need Recomendations

Again, to reiterate, if you call it Patty, they'll ask why you castrated their patron saint.

There are three places I recommend for the St. Patrick's Day parade in Dublin; One, is at the top of O'Connell Street, near the Liffey; the second, is near the front gates of Trinity/ Bank of Ireland Trinity branch; the third, is down by St. Patrick's Cathedral, the terminus of the parade route. The third is the least crowded area on St. Patrick's Day itself, but there are a ton of loiterers and hangers on just beyond it, waiting to load up marching band equipment, etc.

Along the parade route, I'd recommend (from north to south) you can see the GPO, the Book of Kells at Trinity, the Trinity Library as well, can shop on Grafton Street, hang out in Stephen's Green Park, or go back towards Dublin City Castle, up to Christchurch Cathedral, and down to St. Patrick's-- you could walk that route, from one end to the other, in 30 minutes on a normal day.

If you have more than that day itself, a ton of day tours and such run out of the Dublin City Castle area (there is a tourism office there with a lot of brochures), and you can always just hang around the inner city of the South Side, doing things like walking the markers of the ancient Viking settlement of Dublin, or taking the 'duck' viking tour.

Source: I lived about 200 yards south of St. Patrick's Cathedral for a few years, just where Old Dublin turns into Little Islamabad.