1700 Coffee Houses Tour

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Operator: Walk Dublin
Duration: 2 h
Area: Dublin
Prices: Couple Booking (Two People) €42.40

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About this tour

Anyone who enjoys tea or coffee. When booking please specify if you want a tea or coffee tasting.

Duration

90 minutes

About

We will begin at City Hall the start of coffee and tea culture in Dublin. The port was near and merchants and traders gathered to see what was happening. Our walk takes us through beautiful streets and we visit curious 1700’s sites. Transport was slow and wit was quick! Dublin was a hotbed of intrigue and the Second City in the old British Empire. Yet it was difficult to find the action with censorship.

Coffee Houses were where the news was printed! Known as penny universities, centres of commerce and trade where so much of Dublin life was lived.

We will tour for an hour stopping at significant points where duels were fought, merchants traded, information was exchanged and coffee was drunk. Was there tea & chocolate? Let’s find out! We will immerse ourselves in the characters such as Johnathon Swift and how he closed the curtains with the drapers.

We will learn about the people who published, public auctions and lives which were lived by the new rich of 1700’s Dublin. We will see how they influenced the arts, public thinking and commerce. We will have quotes and drama to understand the players in a very different time.

This is fun and light-hearted Tour has a Coffee Tasting Experience to imagine what 1700’s Dublin felt, looked, smelled and tasted. We will have a cup of coffee or tea in the oldest shop in Dublin 1670

Walking difficulty

Fairly easy, some steps all abilities welcome we will be chatting all the way

Meeting point

City Hall, Dame St. Meet at the front steps of City Hall, overlooking Parliament St