Hidden Dublin Walking Tours help you explore the "real Dublin" on foot learning about the characters, mysteries, architecture and histories of this thousand year old city whatever your budget may be.
If you are sick of walks that focus solely on buildings and architecture then these are the walking tours for you. As well as showing you the remnants of historical Dublin we try to evoke what life must have been like in a variety of historical periods, giving you an insight to the individuals who make up the history of Dublin. Our dublin walking tours are interactive, and our guides equipped with visuals to help evoke life as it was, making us unique to the Dublin tours scene.
Below are some of the walks you can avail of through Hidden Walks Dublin
MEDIEVAL DUBLIN - FREE WALKING TOUR
Learn about Dublin during the middle ages and early modern period. See all the remaining medieval sites of interest as well as hearing about the horrors of the bubonic plague, bloody and public executions, Red Hugh’s epic escape from Dublin castle, the outbreak and reaction to Leprosy, why witchcraft & the persecution of “witches” was entirely different in Ireland to any other European country and much more!
PRICE : FREE
MEETING POINT : Top Of Grafton Street (Opposite Butler's Chocolate Cafe)
DEPARTS : Mon 2pm | Thur 2pm | Sat 2pm
19TH CENTURY - FREE WALKING TOUR
Relive the splendour of Dublin’s gentry during the “golden age” along with the desperation of the poor during a period in which slums, child labour, famine, soup-kitchens and workhouses co-existed with extreme wealth, cultural sophistication, idleness and elite pastimes such as “duelling”. Meet the characters, both fabulously wealthy and horrendously destitute who frequented the streets of Dublin 150 years ago.
PRICE : FREE
MEETING POINT : Top Of Grafton Street (Opposite Butler's Chocolate Cafe)
DEPARTS : Tue 11am | Fri 11am | Sun 11am
HAUNTED DUBLIN WALKING TOUR
Ireland is said by many to be one of the most haunted countries on the planet and no trip to the Emerald Isle is complete without a ghost tour. This genuinely creepy walk will trace the mysteries of the supernatural and sometimes demonic forces that stalk the streets of Dublin. Learn about the different types of ghosts that inhabit Dublin, why they are here and about the often gruesome events that gave birth to these legends, including gory murders, satanic rituals and the sad sufferings of previous inhabitants of this town.
PRICE : €9Adults / €8 Students | BOOK ONLINE NOW FOR €6
MEETING POINT : Top Of Grafton Street (Opposite Butler's Chocolate Cafe)
DEPARTS : Tue 6pm | Thur 6pm | Sun 6pm
Viking, Celtic and Norman Dublin - FREE WALKING TOUR
Learn about the birth of the City of Dublin, including “Eblana”, the coming of St Patrick, the Celtic and Viking settlements, gory methods of Viking execution, the “Thingmote”, the largest slave market in Europe (specialising in English slaves!), the two great Dublin Cathedrals, the bloody expulsion of the Vikings, Brian Boru, which Pope authorised the British to invade Ireland, the Norman invasion and why the British were actually invited by the Irish to invade this country!
PRICE : FREE
MEETING POINT : Top Of Grafton Street (Opposite Butler's Chocolate Cafe)
DEPARTS : Mon 11am | Thur 11am | Sat 11am
IRISH INDEPENDENCE WALKING TOUR
From the early days of the English arrival in Ireland right up to the Irish Civil War no notion has left such a mark on the City of Dublin as the 700 year struggle for emancipation and independence. Learn about the repression of the Irish culture, language, religion and race as a whole, Trinity College’s dubious admissions policy, “hidden” Catholic Churches and the history of repression that will make you laugh, fume and weep right up to the Easter Rising, the War of Independence and the Irish Civil War.
PRICE : €9Adults / €8 Students | BOOK ONLINE NOW FOR €6
MEETING POINT :Meeting Square - Beside City Hall on Dame Street
DEPARTS : Tue 2pm | Fri 2pm | Sun 2pm















