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This Summer, why not join us for a special walking tour of Dublin, the setting for all of James Joyce's works...
Join us for a walking tour of historic Joycean Dublin and take in some of the monumental and ordinary sights and sounds of the city in which Joyce staged all his works.
Group/Private tours will be scheduled for weekdays (Tue-Fri) at different times than the regularly scheduled tours listed below. Please contact us at least two weeks in advance to book a group/private tour. There is a minimum charge of EUR 40 which covers up to four people. The usual charges of EUR 10 for adults and EUR 8 for seniors or students applies for more than four.
There are no tours on Sunday or Monday.
The tours last about an hour-and-a-half and involve walking and standing for the duration.
It is usually chilly and frequently wet in Dublin. Please keep this in mind when dressing for the tours: a warm, water-proof coat is generally a good idea.
Walking Tours Schedule
Summer 2010
Tuesday
11am Circular Tour
(NOTE: This 11am tour requires a minimum of 4 people to proceed)
2pm Footsteps of Leopold Bloom Tour
Thursday
11am Footsteps of Leopold Bloom Tour
(NOTE: This 11am tour requires a minimum of 4 people to proceed)
2pm Dubliners Tour
Saturday
11am Circular Tour
2pm Dubliners Tour
Cost € 10 (Students / Seniors € 8)
A Joyce Circular
On our andante dander around the Hibernian metropolis, we take in North Earl Street and the ‘Prick with the Stick’; the house where Oliver ‘Buck Mulligan’ Gogarty was born; the setting of the Dubliners story ‘The Boarding House’; the house in which Sean O’Casey was born; the site of 7 Eccles Street, home of Leopold & Molly Bloom; and Belvedere College, which Joyce attended in the 1890s.
The tour starts from and returns to the James Joyce Centre.
Dubliners
Join our guide on a ramble through the city of Joyce’s first and most accessible work, Dubliners. Completed 100 years ago this year Dubliners skilfully treats both turn-of-the-century Dublin and Joyce’s surroundings in continental Europe where the stories were written. The tour examines Joyce’s life in Dublin and the Dublin he created in his stories, as well as looking at how the city has commemorated it famous son. Joyce’s Dublin was a city of politics and intrigue, of religious devotion and disaffection, as well as a city in which the pressures and ties of family and society were never far off.
The tour starts from the James Joyce Centre and finishes near Trinity College.
In the Footsteps of Leopold Bloom
This tour explores the background to Joyce’s Ulysses and to Bloom’s thoughts as he crosses the city in search of something to eat in the ‘Lestrygonians’ episode. A humorous contrast of well-fed and under-fed citizens is mixed with a commentary on city buildings, and the presence of police constables reminds us of the realities of Dublin as a colonial city. In these footsteps, food becomes the central issue of social, cultural and political life in Dublin in 1904.
The tour starts from the James Joyce Centre and finishes at the National Museum.
Tours cost €10 Adults €8 Seniors/Students
To find out more please feel free to contact the James Joyce Centre |
