Bram Stoker’s Dublin was a city in transformation. The railway was reshaping the city, public parks were opening up new spaces for leisure and the humble public house was changing too.
Historian, author of The Dublin Pub and host of Three Castles Burning podcast, Donal Fallon leads us on a specially-commissioned walking tour through the streets of Stoker’s Victorian Dublin. Along the way, discover the drinking habits and political connections of the age, the pubs frequented by figures like Oscar Wilde, James Joyce and Charles Stewart Parnell and the literary worlds of Sheridan Le Fanu and Máirtín Ó Cadhain.
This walking tour will pass some of Dublin’s most famous historic pubs, including The Palace, Mulligan’s, Davy Byrne’s, The Bailey, McDaid’s, Toners and Kennedy’s, as well as the Shelbourne Hotel bar where Bram Stoker met the great Victorian actor Henry Irving. The route will also take in Sheridan Le Fanu’s former home on Merrion Square and explore his story The Cock and Anchor, which centres on Dublin’s Bleeding Horse pub.
Donal will also uncover some less familiar connections, including Bram Stoker’s own short story written in support of the Temperance movement, and the curious relationship between Ireland’s literary, political and drinking cultures.
This journey through the pubs and personalities of Victorian Dublin is a very different way to explore the city that shaped Bram Stoker.
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