Tourist advice please!

Started by Puckoon, May 09, 2013, 06:24:59 PM

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guy crouchback

simple things in Dublin like the bullet  marks on the GPO, college of surgeons etc, the various sites from 1916 which are all marked, and I'm sure there are guide books listing them, the garden of remembrance which is in Parnell sq., to be honest the whole of Dublin city centre is steeped in history, especially early 20Th century. Get a guide book and have a read before they arrive,
The famine memorial by the customs house ( the customs house!) is for me one of the finest memorials in the country, at night especially it is beautiful in its own way.

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guy crouchbacks post strangely reminded me of somthing one of our unionist board members posted a while back.

http://www.dublinloyaltours.ie/

Doing this alongside a Republican or Socialist one, might just highlight the complexity of what it means to be Irish,
Time to take a more chill-pill approach to life.

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Quote from: Franko on May 09, 2013, 11:34:04 PM
Kilmainham Jail would be an absolute must.

+1 Visted Kimainham Gaol in national school, good spot.
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Quote from: guy crouchback on May 10, 2013, 04:31:12 PM
simple things in Dublin like the bullet  marks on the GPO, college of surgeons etc, the various sites from 1916 which are all marked, and I'm sure there are guide books listing them, the garden of remembrance which is in Parnell sq., to be honest the whole of Dublin city centre is steeped in history, especially early 20Th century. Get a guide book and have a read before they arrive,
The famine memorial by the customs house ( the customs house!) is for me one of the finest memorials in the country, at night especially it is beautiful in its own way.

Very good calls.

Have brought people and relatives around Dublin on quiet a few times and try to steer them away from the Lonely Planet/ Guinness factory guff.
Places not too well known and which they were impressed with and  I would recommend are

1 Walk out to the Poolbeg lighthouse. Never seen anything remotely comparable in any other city I visited.
2 Walk around Howth.
3 A few pints at the Blue Light Pub in the Dublin mountains (not sure if it is still open)
4 Glasnevin cemetery
5 Walk up to the 2/3 Rock mountains from the  backroad in Glencullen. Amazing to just walk over a crest and go from the "middle of nowhere "to overlooking a city.

Agree about the bullet holes in the GPO and RCSI................ really impresses tourists for some reason.

Never been to Kilmainham Jail but gets rave reviews.

Harold Disgracey

The 1916 walking tour that operates out of the International bar is good value.

BennyCake

Don't go near Guinness. It's a ball of shite.

The 1916 Walking Tour is more my kinda thing. Must check that out sometime, if I ever go back to the shithole that is Dublin.

muppet

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Something different

Infamous (115 years ago) fugitive from Achill, a tenant called James Lynchehaun, destroyed the Valley house in Achill and nearly beat the unpopular Landlady, Agnes MacDonald, to death. Lynchehaun was caught but escaped before being caught again and jailed in Portlaois. He escaped a 2nd time but this time made it to the States.

Scotland Yard tried to extradite him back to Ireland from the USA. He won his case in Indianapolis claiming he had committed a political act.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F00E15F7385D16738DDDA10894D1405B838CF1D3

The Valley House is now a bar/hostel but one should read Tripadvisor before staying: http://www.tripadvisor.ie/Hotel_Review-g651977-d569411-Reviews-The_Valley_House_Holiday_Hostel_Bar-Achill_Island_County_Mayo_Western_Ireland.html

With wonderful irony I hear The Valley House is now owned by relatives of James Lynchehaun.

Lynchehaun was reputed to be an inspiration for the Playboy of the Western World and his name appears in Ulysses, by James Joyce.

At worst, one could have an interesting session there and you get to see Achill.
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JUst retired

ST.Michians church down the quays is a very interesting place,with the underground tombs etc. This is in Dublin I must add.

Boycey

I have an appointment in Dublin every Tues morning which takes only 15 mins and over the Summer hols we've been using the day as a sort of family day out and generally spend the day mooching around Dublin doing whatever takes our fancy. I've found it shocking how little I know our capital city despite having lived within 60/90 mins of it almost my whole life.

Over the last fews weeks we've been looking into the history of the city and our country, Glasnevin cemetary, Easter Rising etc. We went over to Kilmainham Jail yesterday but just missed a tour and the next one wasn't for another 90 mins so we decided to head over to Arbour Hill to look the graves of the 1916 leaders. To my shock this surely hugely important site doesn't appear to be on the radar as far as tourist Dublin in concerned. Even when we arrived at a poorly signposted Collins Barracks car park there was no signs to indicate the cemetary site. After wandering around the barracks and museum for an admittedly interesting  hour or so it was nosiness that eventually found me the graveyard out the back gates of the barracks and next to the current Arbour Hill prison. I was then further astonished to find it closed at 4PM on a summers day.

Given the time and effort that has been put in making Glasnevin and Kilmainham as top class tourist sites I'd have thought similiar would have been the case here?

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Quote from: seafoid on July 30, 2014, 02:58:13 PM
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Have booked a few days in Gougane Barra for next month, looking forward to it.