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Hellfire Club Excursion | The Gravedigger Ghost Bus | Northside Ghost Walk | Haunted History Tour | The Black Tale
THE BLACK TALE
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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! Meet your tour guide - John Brien, a Guinness Brewery worker. The year is 1911. The city is alive with horses and carts, shoeless newspaper boys, screeching rusty wheels, determined street performers and balladeers. Welcome to old Dublin. Join John 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. The characters, like Zozimus, the blind balladeer who was as much a part of Dublin as the river Liffey. The rebellions and the loyalists. The fires and the waters. The perpetual poverty and the fleeting wealth. The hunger and the drunkenness. The piety and the prostitution. The contradictions of Dublin life were as plain to be seen in front of your eyes as the white and the black of a pint of Irish stout. Ever wondered about the myths of Guinness? 'Is it true that Guinness tastes that way is...?' 'So, Guinness is black because the water...? The history of Ireland and Dublin is as dark as Guinness itself. The repetitive shouts from the 'rag and bones' men. Join us now on our latest dublin tour. Contact garvan[at]hiddendublinwalks.com (timetable coming soon)
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HAUNTED HISTORY TOUR
Trace the demonic nature, streets, legends, murders, and gory rituals of dublin.
NORTHSIDE GHOST WALK
Deconsecrated cemeteries, mass Republican executions, haunted abbeys and mummified remains.
THE GRAVEDIGGER
The scariest ride in Dublin - Plague, Phantoms, Legends on Irelands only movable tomb!
HELLFIRE CLUB EXCURSION
Megalithic monuments, demonic statue, dwarf skeleton, evil rituals and the occult.
SAINTS AND SINNERS
Sexual excess, repression, hypocrisy, hilarity and tribulation from the Saints And Sinners!
19TH CENTURY DUBLIN
A period covering slums, poor houses, child labour, famine, soup kitchens and idle pastimes!
VIKING CELTIC & NORMAN
Eblana, St Patrick, the Thingmote, Brian Boru, Norman Invasion, and role the pope had to play!
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