'A Terrible Beauty': The Irish Revolution Tour
- Live Guide
- Pickup Service
- Private Tour
- E-Ticket
- 3 hr
This tour will chart the revolutionary period of 1913-1923, a decade of division, war and rhetoric that created the independent Irish state and partitioned the island of Ireland. On this tour you will visit sites of revolutionary importance including: the GPO, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin Castle, the Four courts, the Abbey Theatre, and the Four Courts. We will trace how a group of plucky rebels changed the course of Irish history in April 1916. A failed rebellion and a noble sacrifice would radicalise the Irish population. In 1919 a guerrilla war would erupt ending in an imperfect Anglo-Irish treaty. It was hardly a peace treaty, however, as Ireland descended into Civil War in 1922. The issue that caused it, the border. A border that remains an issue of contention to this very day.
Itinerary Details
Stop At: Theobald Wolfe Tone Statue
We will learn about the founder of Irish Republicanism.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: National Library of Ireland
Enter the W.B. Yeats Exhibit
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Trinity College Dublin
We begin the tour with a discussion of the Anglo-Irish and the Home Rule movement
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: James Connolly Memorial Statue
Here we will learn how the rebellion of Easter 1916 was planned and began.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: An Post General Post Office
Here we will go over the events of the Rising in depth, but we will not be entering the Witness Museum
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Dublin Castle
The site of the British garrison in Dublin during the Irish War of Independence.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Four Courts
Site of the Battle for Dublin 1922 the opening shots of the Irish Civil War.
Duration: 10 minutes
