Celts & Cathedrals

Following in the footsteps of St Patrick, Ireland’s national saint, you will discover the origins and stories of a place older than the Viking settlement.

City Hall, Dublin Castle, Christ Church Cathedral, St Audoen’s Church, the very streets themselves all have echoes and reminders of the early peoples, their Christianising by St Patrick and the thriving early monasteries and settlements that followed. Moving on through an historic former 17th/18th century Huguenot area you will see clues to Gulliver’s Travels, the great work of Jonathan Swift. A lovely park will afford a magnificent panoramic view and great photo opportunity of St Patrick's Cathedral. Find out how the world-famous brewery of Guinness helped to lift this area from depressing slums into a reinvigorated community. The walk will then take you around the neighbours of St Patrick's including the deanery, a police station housed in a one-time medieval archbishop's palace and Marsh's Library, Ireland's first public library (and believed to be haunted!).

Visit inside St Patrick's Cathedral included.