Meet your tour guide - John Brien, a worker at the Guinness Brewery. The year is 1911. The city is alive with horses and carts, shoeless newspaper boys, screeching rusty wheels, determined street performers and balladeers.
From the mid-1990s until 2007, Dublin knew good times. Before then, there were mostly bad times! Horrendous times! Whiskey and spirit-drinking cursed the nation. This was a Dublin where 50 people shared a toilet and 1/3 of Dublin families lived in a single room. A Dublin where well of over a thousand prostitutes loitered the streets. And right beside one of the gates to the ancient city was an abandoned brewery which a man called Arthur Guinness purchased in 1759.
And the tale of that Dublin is blacker still!
Join John Brien on his way to work from St. Patrick's Cathedral, through the Liberties, to the brewery itself. Listen to him retell of the Dublin you never knew existed: The characters, like Zozimus, the blind balladeer!
With Hidden Dublin Walks, reveal the true dark mysteries and histories across a variety of historical periods and unique sightseeing locations frequented only by us. We focus on the characters, that's why we are different! And we don't just own any ordinary old buses for your tours! Excited yet? Our Dublin Tours do not focus on dry history and historical analysis of architecture. This city has produced some quite astounding characters and stories across the centuries. Stories of the cheekier characters from history are always the stories that people remember and take away with them, we know this! Full profile ⋅ Leave a Review
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