Our season of Public Walking Tours from Spring 2022 is listed below. Many of these tours are available on an ongoing basis. Our schedule changes and is updated every 3-6 weeks. For bang-up-to-date tour listings, see our Dublin Decoded home page, here. As always, our public tours feature our fantastic audio-receiver sets. With a range of… Read More Dublin’s best history and architecture walking tours are back!
Tuesday the 25th of January saw the fourth and final talk in the first half of our 2022, winter, Art History and Appreciation Zoom Talks. In our first series, in early 2021, we completed a survey of Western Art from roughly 1300 to the mid-1700s. This year’s entire series focuses on the Art of the… Read More Art History talks resume 8th of February: join us!
Following the wonderful success of last winter’s online Art Talks, Dublin Decoded are delighted to offer our new series of Art Zoom Talks, starting Tuesday 4th January 2022. With eight lavishly illustrated talks, featuring some of the most beautiful art and architecture from Italy, these online talks are an ideal Christmas present for the art-lover… Read More Art History and Appreciation Course, January-February 2022: Beyond Venice – the art of the Italian North-East
Around this time each year the Irish Georgian Society (IGS) run a series of talks on aspects of Ireland’s built heritage. They are invariably superb, presented by the leading authorities in the field, and- to put my own cards fully on the table- they are talks which year by year have certainly increased and expanded… Read More Irish Cities in the Georgian Era: architecture & urban morphology: from the IGS.
this Friday, the 23rd of July, we have a rare outing of our wonderful Saint Patrick’s Park to Cork Street and the Coombe tour, via Fumbally Lane, Blackpitts, Newmarket, Weavers’ Square, Ardee St, exploring several hundred years of tanning, brewing, distilling, irons works, and architectural, social and economic history.It’s a brilliant tour, it takes place… Read More Tours this Friday evening and this Sat am (23rd and 24th July)
Regular readers of our blog, or indeed visitors who often come on our tours, may well be aware that for the last 5 years or so, we’ve had the honour to design and lead many guided walking tours of Dublin’s history and architecture for the venerable Irish Georgian Society. For those however not instantly familiar… Read More 3 fab walking tours: and a chance to support the I.G.S!
It’s a huge relief, and huge pleasure, to relaunch our guided walking tours of Dublin this week. They start very soon now, with two tours of Grafton Street, next Wednesday the 12th and Friday the 14th of May. Anybody who knows about our tours will be aware we include a lot of information on architecture… Read More our city walking tours are back.
Originally posted on murder, mayhem & shiny things:
The ESB has decided that destroying a terrace of Georgian Houses in Dublin in the 1960s isn’t sufficient. Now the company wants to close ‘Number Twenty Nine’, the museum the opened in 1991 as as insufficient apology for the destruction of the historic fabric as the city.…
In response to the Covid crisis and its many restrictions, Dublin Decoded ran our first series of online history and architecture “virtual tour-talks” using the Zoom platform, last June. The response was terrific, and we’re delighted to now announce a second series, looking at four more fascinating historical areas of Dublin.. Our talks take place… Read More Four new Zoom talks: starting tomorrow Tuesday 6th October!
Dublin Decoded has featured on radio and in many newspapers, including the Journal (Dublin); the Dublin Inquirer; the Wall Street Journal (link here); the Financial Times and of course, Arran has also written extensively himself, most notably his well-known monthly columns in “Totally Dublin” during the 2000s, Hidden Dublin. However, it was a particular thrill… Read More Always nice to get some press. Especially this press.
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