Please find below our new, updated schedule of History and Architecture Walking tours of Dublin for Spring 2023. As always, these public tours feature our fantastic audio-receiver sets. With a range of over 60 meters, these audio receiver are a game-changer: they screen out background street-noise, deliver perfect sound quality, and crucially, allow each guest to walk at their own pace. This is all included in your ticket price. Remember: Private walking tours (exclusively for you and /or your own private / family / college or corporate group) are available year-round, on flexible (available) dates, simply by going to go to the business part of our website, at dublindecoded.com then the hitting the Green “Book Now” button, then selecting the “Private Tour” option. For public tours, on fixed dates, which anybody is very welcome to join: subject to availability, please see our full schedule there, or just below. Again, to book tickets, either just go to the business part of our website, at dublindecoded and press on the relevant walk or event link there, or you can simply hit the links below. For private tours, always use the Green Button, plus the private tour option on our Dublin Decoded website. Thank you.
Here are all our currently scheduled public walks Spring 2023
Wednesday 22 March (2023) at 11.30AM Walking Tour of Dublin’s Medieval Walls (2 hours)
explores the remaining fragments of the old city walls, gates and watchtowers, and the dramatic, often violent events they witnessed over their over-700-hundred year presence. A very special tour. A 2-hour loop around the old city of Dublin’s medieval walls, walking with our maps in hand, this is almost like a treasure hunt, as we use the maps to help identify the locations of the former gates and watch towers that once lined the medieval walls. We’ll also explore and discuss the layered, often violent history those walls witnessed through the Middle Ages, including war, invasion, fire, plaque and bloody rebellion. We’ll discuss Viking History, the Normans, vanished churches, priories, chapels and medieval guildhalls. A fantastic way to learn about the often-forgotten, yet fascinating realities of medieval Dublin and learn about the origins of our city. Tickets here.
Saturday 25 March: 11.30AM Drama and Politics in Dublin’s Medieval Core (1.5 hours -2 hours)
Everybody thinks about Dublin Literature as being Shaw, Wilde, Joyce, O’Casey. But what about writers who lived and worked in the old historic core, from Johnathan Swift and Lady Sydney Morgan, to James Clarence Mangan? And what of Irish Drama and the Irish stage in the centuries before the Abbey National Theatre? This superb walking tour explores theatre, literature, music and performance as well as themes as diverse as Bookselling and printing on Castle Street; drama and fatal politics at the Werburgh and Smock Alley Theatres; the old Music Hall and much, much more. Our route includes Smock Alley, Dublin Castle, Castle Street, Fishamble and Werburgh Street, Smock Alley and around. An eye-opening journey, around Dublin’s medieval core. Tickets available here.
Tuesday 28 March: How to Read a Painting, convention, meaning and symbolism in Renaissance and European old master paintings.
The acclaimed “How to Read a Painting” workshop: our gentle, accessible, and highly enjoyable introduction to Art History. Learn about artistic conventions, the creation of meaning and the use of religious and mythological symbols and symbolism in Renaissance and European painting. As examples- to illustrate our learning points- we’ll view and discuss over a dozen paintings from the NGI’s wonderful collections, various stunning artworks by masters like Fra Angelico, Perugino, Titian and Andrea Mantegna. This events runs Tuesday 28 March and Thursday 06 April. Please take care to look at the booking calendar, making sure you book the correct date you want. Tickets for both dates here.
Thursday 31 March: Irish Painting 1670- 1850: & its European influences.
An art tour of Irish Art, from before the Battle of the Boyne through the 18th and 19th centuries- with genres including History Painting, Irish Landscape and Portraits. Learn also how ideas from England, France and Italy influenced Irish art in this era, and towards the end of our tour, the influence of the Grand Tour tradition in particular, when we’ll view and discuss “vedute” works bought and brought back here to Ireland, by Grand Tourists, purchased from artists like Canaletto in Venice, and Panini in Rome. This Irish Art event runs Thursday 31 March and Tuesday 04 April. Please take care to look at the booking calendar, making sure you book the correct date you want. Tickets for both dates here.
Tuesday 04 April: Irish Painting 1680- 1850: plus French & Italian influences, and the Grand Tour Tradition.
An alternative, second date to do this tour of Irish Art. (See longer description further above) This Irish Art event runs Thursday 31 March and Tuesday 04 April. Please take care to look at the booking calendar, making sure you book the correct date you want. Tickets for both dates here.
Tuesday 06 April: How to Read a Painting, convention, meaning and symbolism in Renaissance and European old master paintings.
A second chance to do the “How to Read a Painting” workshop: a gentle, accessible, and highly enjoyable introduction to Art History. Learn about artistic conventions, the creation of meaning and the use of religious and mythological symbols and symbolism in Renaissance and European painting. (See longer description further above) Tickets for both dates here.
Tuesday 18 April 8PM (sharp) Local History Talk: Rathmines.
A slide lecture on the social and architectural history of Dublin’s Rathmines District. This talk is a live, in-person event. No tickets. No bookings. Admission free and first come/first serve.
Wednesday 26 April: 11 AM Walking Tour of Rathmines
A walking tour on the social, artistic, revolutionary and remarkable architectural history of Dublin’s Rathmines township. We’ll look at and discuss some of the townships superb buildings up close and in-person. One Hour 35 minutes Approx. Tickets €20 + bking: available here.
Tuesday 09 May 8PM (sharp) The Buildings of Dublin’s Liffey Quays: Talk.
Local History talk, a slide lecture learn about some of the forgotten history, and remarkable architecture that line the banks of Dublin’s River Liffey.This slide-talk is a live, in-person event. No tickets. No bookings. Admission free and first come/first serve.
SUNDAY 14 May 11.30AM The Buildings of Dublin’s Liffey Quays & streets around: Walking Tour.
A unique walking tour, from Hueston Station to the Four Courts -includes the Royal Barracks, the Bluecoat School, Saint Paul’s Church, Smithfield Square and the evolution of the Quays- an architecture and history walk. Unmissable. Tickets and details available here.
Arran Q Henderson 
Trying to book walking tour for 9th of April to walk Dublin City medieval walls. Site not responding Mícheál Shanley
LikeLike
Hi Mícheál,
many tanks for your message, and sorry it has taken me a couple of days to get back to you. Sorry to hear you are having trouble booking. I just pressed on that link myself, and it appears to be working. Other people have booked successfully there, in the last few days. The trick is to click on the date on the calendar, when the tour appears. there is only one such date, for this particular tour, Saturday 09 April. Its not enough to press on that date alone though, you also have to hit the little arrow head, to select the amount of tickets you wish to purchase.
Hope you’re able to navigate through it Mícheál, I know online systems can be annoying, and sometimes unclear.
The good news is we do still have spaces left, on that medieval tour on Saturday, and obviously we’d love to have you on it.
very best wishes- Arran
LikeLike