Cities / Dublin
Ireland
Dublin: Vikings, Georgians, the Rising and a day in June 1904.
Dublin’s history is in its street names and a historian reads them. The Viking town under Christ Church, the Georgian squares of the eighteenth century, the General Post Office in Easter week 1916, the Liberties and the brewery, and the route Leopold Bloom walked on 16 June 1904.
The timeline the walk follows
A longphort on the Liffey; the slave market and the town.
Strongbow takes the city; Dublin Castle follows.
Merrion Square, Trinity, the second city of the empire.
The Proclamation read at the GPO; the road to independence.
The Treaty, the Civil War and the Four Courts.
Themes
Choose one, or name your own.
Two hours covers one theme well. Three hours links two.
- Viking and medieval Dublin
- Georgian squares and the Ascendancy
- 1916 and the road to independence
- Joyce’s Dublin: Ulysses on foot
- The Liberties and Guinness
Private walk
Your group only, your questions, your pace.
Group walk
Schools, companies, cruise and coach groups. Larger groups split.
Your theme
A period, a person, a family story. We find the historian who knows it.
Led by
A historian from Dublin, from LocalBini’s vetted network
Meeting point
Central, confirmed in your booking email
Not included
Entry tickets to monuments and museums
Questions
About Dublin.
Is Trinity and the Book of Kells included?
The Long Room has a ticket. The walk passes through the college and can end at the library.
Pub at the end?
A historian’s choice of pub is part of the service.
Cancellation?
Free cancellation up to 7 days before the walk. Within 7 days the walk is non refundable, since the historian has reserved the time. We reschedule for severe weather at no cost.
Walk Dublin with a historian.
Date, time, length and theme. We reply within a day and confirm your historian within two to three.