The Global Life: Dublin Calling

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Any good night, or any bad one for that matter, will end in the pub with a pint of Guinness or Bulmer's sublime hard cider. With a pub for every 450 Dubliners, it's hard to go wrong, but two favorites are Thing Mote and the Stag's Head, which, a few years older than the American republic, is a traditional haunt of Trinity College students. Irish music is on tap nightly at O'Donoghue's Bar and the Temple Bar (in the heart of the neighborhood that shares its name), where you can also enjoy a beer garden, a fine plate of oysters and an impressive collection of Irish whiskeys. "A good puzzle," James Joyce's Bloom posited, "would be to cross Dublin without passing a pub." A challenge, indeed, but Sweet Molly, why would you want to?