Vikings, Rebels, Monks and Monarchs Self Guided Tour of Dublin

Search for the bullet holes in a triumphal arch that Dublin nationalists renamed Traitor's Gate.

Step into the park where two armies paused their gunfire twice daily so a man could feed the ducks.

Trace the pockmarks on stone columns left by the garrison that held out longest in the Rising.

Uncover how six stained glass windows nearly bankrupted one café owner and ended up in the Supreme Court.

Encounter the city that produced four Nobel literature laureates and a rebellion led by its poets.

Pass beneath a bell tower whose toll once threatened virginity before it came for your exam grades.

See where Queen Victoria signed a ninth century manuscript in an act unthinkable today.

Consider the chamber that was forced to vote itself out of existence and gutted so it could never reopen.

Notice why one part of Dublin's Tart with the Cart gleams brighter than the rest.

Cross the iron footbridge where a toll collector once tried to charge armed rebels half a penny each.

Decode how a cancelled bus station accidentally created Dublin's most bohemian quarter.

Learn why the first shot of the Easter Rising came from an actor with a key to this very building.

Pause in the crypt where two mummified animals stuck in the organ pipe earned the nicknames Tom and Jerry.

Walk through the fortress a rebel chieftain once escaped through a medieval toilet drain.

Stand above the hidden river that gave Dublin its name and still flows in a tunnel beneath your feet.