See the treasures of Dublin’s museums with this guided Irish history tour
A leisurely, yet inspiring tour of the highlights of Dublin’s best museums. No art degree required.
This unique tour utilises Ireland’s artistic and literary heritage to explore the historical moments, traditions, wars, movements, and eras that have shaped Ireland throughout the centuries.
We’ll explore the highlights of the National Gallery, National Library, and National Museum, with a coffee break halfway through.
Consider those great cultural and artistic treasures that represent your country’s history. For the USA, it is paintings like ‘Washington Crossing the Delaware’ and ‘American Gothic’ by Grant Wood, the original manuscripts of Edgar Allan Poe and Walt Whitman, and objects imbued with cultural symbolism like The Liberty Bell.
This tour will show you their Irish equivalents:
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We’ll explore the highlights of the National Gallery: Europeans masters like Carvaggio, Monet and Picasso; a look at the Irish painter Jack Yeats; and most importantly we’ll explore works that help tell the story of Irish history.
Next we’ll explore the beautiful National Library with a vast reading room that transports you back to Joyce’s Dublin of 1904. Re-ignite your admiration for poetry with an insight into the life and works of W.B. Yeats’s, Ireland’s Greatest Poet. Learn about the Celtic Literary revival from the late 19th century onwards.
An immense museum, worthy of multiple visits. On our tour, however, we’ll limit ourselves to just two exhibitions – Kingship & Sacrifice and the Treasury.
The former hosts artefacts dating back to the Iron Age, prehistoric and pre-Christian Ireland (the star of the show being the bog bodies – human remains that have been preserved for over 2,200 years!) The latter includes some of the most impressive precise metal work that has ever been produced in Ireland, including the Tara Brooch and Ardagh Chalice.
What was once the town house of the Fitzgerald family from the 1740s has, since 1922, hosted the Irish Parliament (Dáil Eireann). Much like the Old Parliament building, this parliament building also became an architectural inspiration. Its facade, as well as the floor plan for its 1st and 2nd floors, were used as blueprints for the design of the White House.
Naturally, we’ll only be able to view it from the gate, which, thankfully, gives us a more-or-less unobstructed view of the front facade.
We offer Cancellation Insurance as an add-on for each of our tours. Cancel for free for a full refund up to 48 hours before the tour’s start time. (For more info, see our T&Cs).
