The Little Museum is proud to present three more walks led by Arran Henderson, our favourite guide to the architectural heritage of Dublin.
If you want to see Dublin through completely fresh eyes, we guarantee that you will enjoy this series.
Arran is a local historian who is passionate about Dublin’s built heritage. An urbane and amusing guide, he has worked with the Irish Georgian Society, Irish Architecture Foundation and many other cultural organisations for many years, helping guests to “read” and better understand historic architecture, and making both architecture and ideas accessible, with a deft and amicable touch.
Crucially, Arran’s tours also use buildings to illuminate wider themes in Irish and Dublin history, hence the idea of using architecture to decode our history and our city.
We are hosting three tours with Arran this autumn. Each tour takes place just once, and will run on a Saturday each month.
Season tickets for the series cost €80 and there are just 30 tickets available.
Tour groups meet at 11.00am and depart at 11.15am sharp. Tours last from 1 hour and 45 minutes to 2 hours. Please note the different start and end point for each tour.
All tours include the supply of an audio kit for perfect sound (a “whisper set”) for each guest. This equipment is included in the price of the tour.
Here’s what you can expect to see this autumn:
Saturday 13th September: Temple Bar history & architecture.
Dublin first telephone exchange building, and first art deco power transformer, an unfortunate elephant, a secret bomb factory, the gondoliers, the brothels and the lunacy of early modern Dublin.
Practical details: Meet at 11am outside the Andrew Street Post Office. Walk commences 11.15am sharp. Duration 90 minutes approx. Please note this is not a loop walk.
End point: Near Smock Alley Theatre.
Saturday 18th October: Actors, playwrights and performers in Dublin’s historic core.
Focusing on the Fishamble, Smock Alley, Christ Church, and Castle Steps medieval and ‘early modern’ area of the city, and on the drama and politics of the 1600s and 1700s: an era where politics and drama often intertwined and when one false step often proved fatal.
Practical details: Meet 11am outside Gutter Books, Cow’s Lane. Walk commences 11.15am sharp. Duration 90 minutes approx. Please note this is not a loop walk.
End point: Near Smock Alley Theatre.
Saturday 16th November: Dublin’s ancient and vanished parish churches.
Not to mention former medieval priories, wayward monks, feckless Viking churches, high liturgical drama, and more…
Learn about some vanished churches (including a real round tower) in Dublin’s ancient historic centre.
Practical details: Meet 11am outside Gutter Books, Cow’s Lane. Walk commences 11.15am sharp. Duration 90 minutes approx. Please note this is not a loop walk.
End point: Near Ship Street and Dublin Castle.
All tours are presented and led by Arran Henderson of Dublin Decoded Tours, in partnership with the Little Museum of Dublin.