I’d long wanted to explore the famous historic heritage here and was thrilled to explore and finally learn a bit more about Ireland’s best preserved medieval city.   Here are some pictures. Top, above:  the front exterior of the glorious Rothe House, a perfect and rare example of an early 17th Century merchants House (built 1594-1610)… Read More Postcards from Kilkenny, a medieval wonderland.

The weekend of 17th-19th Oct saw the 2014 installment of Open House Dublin (OHD), a glorious, weekend-long annual celebration of architecture in the capital, and across the wider Dublin area, now in its 9th year. It’s always a privilege to visit great architecture and great buildings, particularly those not usually open to the public. But even… Read More new Dun Laoghaire library (DRL Lexicon) @ OHD.

Recently we looked at John Speed’s 1610 map of Dublin, a crucial source for historians. This week we look at a map by a historian. It’s Leonard Strangeway’s 1904 The Walls of Dublin. In other words, depicting the medieval city and walls, but made much later.    Here it is.  It’s worth pointing out that unlike… Read More Dublin historic Maps (2), medieval survivors | city movers | explosive history.

To anyone, in Ireland or abroad, who looked the pictures of lovely art and architectural views and details which featured in our 2014 Dublin Decoded picture quiz, and would now like to see the answers and where each picture was, here’s the answers revealed on our Dublin Decoded History walks site.  if you look at… Read More Dublin pictures and quiz answers

Looking back over this summer, since we got our mix of unique art, history and architecture city walking tours going in May, it’s been a hectic yet amazing ride, and often a privilege too.  We did 2 North-by North-West tours; 3 medieval walled city tour/treasure-map hunts; a Victorian walk; 5 more of our long-established “How to… Read More Our Dublin Tour. Summer days, summer daze, How to read a city, a painting, a building & a street.