Private tour in Dublin Jim D

🎹📖 Ireland - Art, Literature and Artefact - A Story For All Time

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👋 Hi! I’m Jim Dempsey. You’ve found a tour that interests you. Now comes the important question: who do you want to spend that day with? ☘ There will be history and stories—and, if we are doing it properly, plenty of fun and craic along the way. That is how I want a private tour to feel: relaxed, personal and shaped around you, not like a lecture or rehearsed script. đŸŽ™ïž I’m a full-time professional guide with more than 20 years’ experience across Dublin and Ireland. Before we begin, I take time to understand your interests, knowledge and preferred pace. Bring your questions and curiosity, and I’ll make Ireland’s people, places and stories interesting, understandable and relevant to you. ⭐ Guests describe me as joyful, funny, deeply knowledgeable and a natural storyteller. Parents often mention how successfully I engage their teenagers. Many guests say that by the end, they feel more like friends than clients. 🎓 I hold both the original Dublin City & Environs and Ireland’s National Tour Guide qualifications. I have taught the National Tour Guide programme six times and have trained and mentored many guides who built successful careers of their own. 🚘 For driving tours, I hold a full SPSV limousine licence and use a new seven-passenger Ford Tourneo Custom. When you book with me, I am the person who communicates with you, meets you, guides you and drives you throughout—there is no handover between guide and driver. ✹ If one of my tours is what you are looking for, you can book it with confidence. If it is almost right but you would like to change the pace, emphasis or itinerary—or combine several days—send me a message. I’ll help you shape the experience that is right for you.

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Overview of your Dublin tour

What does it mean to be Irish? Who are the Irish? Who is Irish and who is not? This tour takes a step out of history, politics and religion and dives into art, literature and artefacts to explore these themes from different perspectives. The rhetoric of debate is left behind and the imagination takes over. Curiousity and wonder will intertwine with the greatest of all Irish arts - storytelling - and you will be drawn into the liminal space of the oral tradtion the Irish are famous for. This is storytelling first, with you being participant in the creation of this story. Being Irish is a feeling, a sense of place within; it is intangible but so familiar. It is ancient but alive in this modern world too. This tour is an experience of Ireland. You’ll leave not with answers, but with something better: the rejuvenating simplicity of wonder and hopefully feeling a day younger. This is fun storytelling.

Your Dublin tour itinerary

 National Gallery of Ireland – four centuries of Irish art.  Merrion Square – Dublin’s premier Georgian Square  St. Stephen’s Green – the Guinness gift to Dublin  National Museum of Ireland – Ór, the Gold Collection and The Treasury Collection  National Museum of Dublin – W.B. Yeats exhibition  Trinity College Dublin – Book of Kells Experience and Library Building

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Transport details
Type: Walking

On foot

What's included
Private Guide
Tickets: As per above
Meeting location

Merrion Square West, County Dublin, County Dublin, D02 K303, Ireland

This tour meets at the entrance of the National Gallery of Ireland main entrance on Merrion Square West

  • You can request a specific meeting location (for example, your hotel) during the checkout.
Other details
Tour categories
Art And Culture
Museums
Off The Beaten Path
History
Tour reference number
1418232
Languages
English
Activity level
Moderate
Accessibility
Wheelchair Accessible
Kid Friendly

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Who is this private tour in Dublin best suited for?

This private tour in Dublin is perfect for those who are passionate about art, literature, and storytelling. It's ideal for travellers who want to explore Ireland's rich cultural heritage through its unique gold collection, the Book of Kells, and the works of W.B. Yeats. If you're curious about what it means to be Irish and enjoy engaging with local stories and traditions, this tour will offer you a memorable experience.

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