1 hour 30 minutes (Approx.)
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Offered in: English
Overview
Explore the Victorian gravestones and crypts of Glasnevin Cemetery on a walking tour with a storytelling guide who helps bring Ireland’s complex history to life. Learn about Glasnevin Cemetery’s sculpture, symbolism, architecture, and most famous residents, then hear some of Glasnevin’s most intriguing secrets.
- Walking tour of Glasnevin Cemetery
- Step back in time on a history tour
- Learn stories from Ireland's past
- Enjoy discounts in the cafe and museum shop
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Make your way to Glasnevin Cemetery, located just outside Dublin city center, and meet your guide.
As you walk the grassy paths between the tombs, learn the basics of Glasnevin Cemetery history, starting in the years when Irish Catholics had no place to bury their dead with Catholic rites. Find out how Glasnevin Cemetery became a part of Irish heritage—it’s the setting for a key scene in James Joyce’s 'Ulysses' and appears in a poem by Idris Davies—and about the most famous Irish people who are buried here.
Visit the graves of some little-known but fascinating figures, including Maria Higgins, who was buried twice in Glasnevin, an Irish chaplain who saw the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, the most recent Irish winner of Wimbledon, and more. Throughout the tour, the guide strikes a careful balance of passion, intrigue, and respect for one of Ireland’s truly historic places.
If you'd like, purchase a ticket to climb Dublin's largest round tower, the O'Connell Tower and enjoy panoramic views of the cemetery, Dublin, Wicklow, and the Irish Sea.
This walking tour of Glasnevin Cemetery concludes at the original departure point.
As you walk the grassy paths between the tombs, learn the basics of Glasnevin Cemetery history, starting in the years when Irish Catholics had no place to bury their dead with Catholic rites. Find out how Glasnevin Cemetery became a part of Irish heritage—it’s the setting for a key scene in James Joyce’s 'Ulysses' and appears in a poem by Idris Davies—and about the most famous Irish people who are buried here.
Visit the graves of some little-known but fascinating figures, including Maria Higgins, who was buried twice in Glasnevin, an Irish chaplain who saw the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, the most recent Irish winner of Wimbledon, and more. Throughout the tour, the guide strikes a careful balance of passion, intrigue, and respect for one of Ireland’s truly historic places.
If you'd like, purchase a ticket to climb Dublin's largest round tower, the O'Connell Tower and enjoy panoramic views of the cemetery, Dublin, Wicklow, and the Irish Sea.
This walking tour of Glasnevin Cemetery concludes at the original departure point.
Itinerary
This guided tour takes in an alternative view of the varied heritage that Ireland's largest cemetery holds and the history within its walls.
You will learn of its sculpture, symbolism, architecture, art, sporting heroes, natural life and much more. With lesser known stories of extraordinary lives and extraordinary events this is a tour that is for both the well acquainted with the cemetery and those who have never visited before, the secret history of Ireland’s most well known cemetery.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
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