It’s hard to visualise or even credit today, that Dublin was once a small, densely packed, bustling walled medieval city, with mighty stone gates, castleated watch-towers, and the heads of traitors, often displayed on spikes!

Many of us are unaware of the long incident-packed history of fires, wars, rebellions, plague visitations, and even a huge foreign invasion, that marked the ancient city before the modern era. And no wonder, apart from some fragments of the two cathedrals and of around Dublin castle, Ireland’s capital appears today to have lost most of its ancient past. But there are clues aplenty, when we learn how to read them, and know where to look.

Join our clue-reading, treaure hunting, map and city-wall-following history walk of old Dublin, and learn to knit the present to the past.

Details and booking: Our meeting place, at 1.55pm Sunday 17th is outside the back of the Smock Alley Theatre, on Essex Street West, where it meets Cow Lane, but please note that all tickets should be purchesd here, in advance of the tour, and presented please just prior to start of walk, beginning 2pm.

We look forward to seeimng you there.

Our next tour is The North Georgain and KIngs Inns Tour, Sunday 31st May, also starting 2pm.