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Traditional Irish Musical Pub Crawl
This impressive and entertaining tour visits the upstairs rooms of three pubs; there, you'll
listen to two musicians talk about, play, and sing traditional Irish music. While having
only two musicians makes the music a bit thin (Irish music aficionados will say you're
better off just finding a good session), the evening—though touristy—is not gimmicky.
It's an education in traditional Irish music. The musicians clearly enjoy introducing rook-
ies to their art and are very good at it. Humor is their primary educational tool. In the sum-
mer,this popular tour frequently sells out—reserve ahead (€12,€1discount with this topic
in 2014, beer extra, allow 2.5 hours, April-Oct daily at 19:30, Nov-March Thu-Sat only,
maximum 50 tourists, meet upstairs at Gogarty's Pub at the corner of Fleet and Anglesea
in the Temple Bar area, tel. 01/475-3313,
www.musicalpubcrawl.com
)
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Dublin Literary Pub Crawl
Two actors take 40 or so tourists on a walk, stopping at four pubs. Their clever banter in-
troduces the novice to the high
craic
of James Joyce, Seán O'Casey, and W. B. Yeats. The
two-hour tour is punctuated with 20-minute pub breaks (free time). While the beer lubric-
ates the social fun, it dilutes the content of the evening. (If you want straight lit and drama,
