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assemble just inside the front gate of Trinity College; no reservations
are needed.
From Trinity College. & 01/878-0227. www.historicalinsights.ie. Tickets 10 ($12)
adults,
8 ($9.60) seniors and students. May-Sept Mon-Fri 11am and 3pm, Sun
11am, noon, and 3pm; Oct-Apr Fri-Sun noon.
Literary Pub Crawl Walking in the footsteps of Joyce, Behan,
Beckett, Shaw, Kavanagh, and other Irish literary greats, this guided
tour, winner of the “Living Dublin Award,” visits a number of
Dublin's most famous pubs with literary connections. Actors pro-
vide humorous performances and commentary between stops.
Throughout the night there is a Literary Quiz with prizes for the
winners. The tour assembles nightly at 7:30pm and Sunday at noon,
upstairs at the Duke Pub on Duke Street (off Grafton St.).
37 Exchequer St., Dublin 2. & 01/670-5602. www.dublinpubcrawl.com. Tickets
11 ($13) per person.
Traditional Irish Musical Pub Crawl This tour explores and
samples the traditional music scene, and the price includes a song-
book. Two professional musicians, who sing as you make your way
from one famous pub to another in Temple Bar, lead the tour. The
evening is touristy, but the music is good and thankfully free from
clichés. It lasts 2 1 2 hours. The “crawl” better describes the way back
to your hotel.
Leaves from Oliver St. John Gogarty pub and restaurant, 57-58 Fleet St. (at Angle-
sea St.), Temple Bar. & 01/478-0193. Tickets 10 ($12) adults, 8 ($9.60) stu-
dents and seniors. Mid-May to Oct daily 7:30pm; Nov and Feb to mid-May Fri-Sat
7:30pm. Tickets on sale at 7pm or in advance from Dublin Tourist Office.
Walk Macabre The Trapeze Theatre Company offers this 90-
minute walk past the homes of famous writers around Merrion
Square, St. Stephen's Green, and Merrion Row, while reconstructing
old scenes of murder and intrigue. The tour includes reenactments
from some of the darker pages of Yeats, Joyce, Bram Stoker, and
Oscar Wilde. This one would be rated “R” for violent imagery, so
it's not for children or light sleepers. Advance booking is essential.
Tours leave from the main gates of St. Stephen's Green.
& 087/677-1512 or 087/271-1346. Tickets 12 ($14) adults, 10 ($12) students.
Daily 7:30pm.
The Zosimus Experience This is the latest rage on the walk-
ing-tour circuit. Its creators call it a “cocktail mix” of ghosts, mur-
derous tales, horror stories, humor, circus, history, street theater, and
whatever's left, all within the precincts of medieval Dublin. With
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