Dublin Literary Tour - Morning tour, 4 to 8 November 2026

Dublin Literary Tour - Morning tour is a two-hour walking tour that starts outside the gates of the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin and runs from 4 to 8 November 2026. Author Pat Liddy or one of his guides leads the walk through the Georgian and Trinity College Quarter, presented in association with the Dublin Book Festival. The route runs from Merrion Square through the Georgian streets and around Trinity College.

It takes in places connected with Dublin's literary heritage and the early development of writing in Ireland. Stops and passing points include Merrion Square, the National Gallery of Ireland, the Oscar Wilde Statue, Kildare Street and Trinity College, along with former homes associated with Sheridan Le Fanu, W. Yeats and Bram Stoker. The walk covers the Dublin of James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, George Bernard Shaw, Sheridan Le Fanu, Oscar Wilde and W. B. Yeats, and connections with visiting writers such as Charles Dickens and J. P. Dunleavy.

To keep to two hours, the tour concentrates on writers who have died. Only small groups are taken.

Tickets cost €25 for adults, €20 for seniors and students, and €15 for children aged 12-18 with an accompanying adult. Children under 12 with an accompanying adult go free.