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School Tours to Historic sites in Dublin
| Name | Detail |
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Croke Park Experience  | The Croke Park Experience offers a unique opportunity to learn more about the history of the Gaelic Athletic Association through guided tours and interactive exhibits. Open daily throughout the year, a typical class visit to Croke Park takes two hours and includes an exciting behind-the-scenes guided tour of the stadium, a short film, a chance to explore the exhibits in the newly refurbished GAA Museum and a visit to our interactive games area. Click to watch the GAA school tour video ...
w: museum.gaa.ie e: tours@crokepark.ie St Joseph's Ave, Croke Park, Dublin 3 ( 01 8192323 ) |
Dublinia  | Dublinia’s exhibitions reveal fascinating insights into our Viking and medieval past using reconstructions, audio-visual and interactive displays. Our education programme is designed to meet the requirements of the primary and junior curriculum and encourages children to learn while having fun. Superbly researched and imaginatively presented, there is something here for everyone. Further information on our Education Programme... w: www.dublinia.ie e: curator@dublinia.ie St Michael's Hill, Christchurch Dublin 8 (01 6794611) |
Lusk Heritage Centre .jpg) | Lusk Heritage Centre comprises of a round tower, a medieval belfry and a 19th century church. They form a unit, although they were built over a period of almost a thousand years. The belfry now houses an exhibition on medieval churches of North County Dublin and also the magnificent 16th century effigy tomb of Sir Christopher Barnewall and his wife Marion Sharl.
w: www.heritageireland.ie Lusk, Co Dublin (01 8437683) |
 | St Patrick’s Cathedral offers a free education programme to schools. Visiting schools (both Primary and Secondary) get free entry and can also choose to avail of a themed guided tour. St Patrick’s offers a wealth of learning possibilities from gothic architecture and stained glass windows to Celtic grave slabs which are over a thousand years old.
w: www.stpatrickscathedral.ie e: education@stpatrickscathedral.ie St Patrick's Close, Dublin 8 (01-4539472) |
.jpg) | National School Tours with the Gaiety School of Acting and Smock Alley!
‘overall big thumbs up from the kids’. Are you interested in doing something that is both Educational and Fun with your students this summer? The Gaiety School of Acting at Smock
Alley, have devised a programme that is both enlightening and entertaining. Begin your day with a visit to our studios and learn about the history of the school and the famous faces that have passed through the halls. Next stop Smock Alley Theatre to learn's its story and find out what a day looks like in Dublin's first Theatre of 1662. Then it’s your turn to take the stage! Come find yourself at a Drama Workshop where you can learn some tricks of the trade! w: www.gaietyschool.com e: educate@gaietyschool.com Temple Bar Dublin (01 6799277) |
Kilmainham Jail Museum .jpg) | One of the largest unoccupied gaols in Europe, covering some of the most heroic and tragic events in Ireland's emergence as a modern nation from 1780s to the 1920s. Attractions include a major exhibition detailing the political and penal history of the prison and its restoration. The tour of the prison includes an audio-visual show.
w: www.heritageireland.ie Inchicore Road, Kilmainham, Dublin 8 (01 4535984) |
Croke Park Gaa Museum On A Budget Bus Value Tour .jpg) | Take a trip to the Croke Park GAA Museum on a Budget Bus value tour and experience a fascinating historical journey where you’ll celebrate the GAA’s vast contribution to Irish sporting, cultural and social life. Tour includes pick up from your school in one of our deluxe coaches, entrance to the museum and return coach transfer to your school for only €10 per person until end of March 2011. From April 2011 onwards the offer will be available for €12 per person. Available to schools in Dublin and Meath. Click on our website link for full tour details .
w: www.budgetbus.ie e: hello@budgetbus.ie Dublin ( 01-8227265) |
The National Wax Museum Plus .jpg) | The National Wax Museum Plus is Ireland's most exciting new attraction. Housed over four floors of discovery, interaction and education, including the Irish Hero's of Science and Discovery exhibition, Our Enchanted Children's World, The Wax Factor Studio and Wax figures of some of the greatest celebrities, musicians, historical icons and Sports stars. Book your class and teacher is free. We also offer a free pass to teachers to come to the museum in advance of making a booking as a planning and resource tool.
w: www.waxmuseumplus.ie e: groups@waxmuseumplus.ie Foster Place, Temple Bar, Dublin ( 01 6718373) |
Glasnevin Museum .jpg) | Glasnevin Museum offers an engaging Education Programme for both Primary and Secondary Schools, consisting of tours of Glasnevin Cemetery, a visit to Glasnevin Museum and a menu of workshops, all of which compliment specific elements of the curriculum. Glasnevin Museum holds exciting interactive exhibitions, which illustrate the social, historical and political development of modern Ireland through the stories buried in Glasnevin Cemetery. Our aim is to capture the imagination and send your class away happy! To download our Education brochures please follow the link below. w: www.glasnevintrust.ie/visit-glasnevin/school-trips/ e: booking@glasnevintrust.ie Finglas Road, Glasnevin, D11 Dublin ( 01 8826550) |
Rathfarnham Castle .jpg) | The date of the foundation of the Castle is uncertain, but recent research would suggest 1583 as the most likely date. It was built by Adam Loftus, a Yorkshireman. The Castle has a colourful and interesting history with 18th century interiors by Sir William Chambers and James Athenian Stuart and was declared a National Monument in the mid-1980s. The Castle is presented to visitors as a castle undergoing active conservation. The visitor can see, at first hand, tantalizing glimpses of layers of the Castles earlier existence uncovered during research.
w: www.heritageireland.ie e: rathfarnhamcastle@opw.ie Rathfarnham, Dublin 14 (01 4939462) |
St Audoen's Church .jpg) |
Sited in the heart of the walled medieval city, St. Audoen's Church is the only remaining medieval parish church in Dublin. It is dedicated to St. Ouen the 7th century bishop of Rouen and patron saint of Normandy.
The Guild Chapel of St. Anne houses an exhibition on the importance of St. Audeon's Church in the life of the medieval city.
Visitors will be able to see the part of the church still in use by the Church of Ireland as a parish church. They can also view the recently restored 17th century memorials to the Sparke and Duff families and the 15th century effigal tomb to Baron Portlester and his wife. Cornmarket High Street, Dublin 8 (01 677088) |
| Dalkey Castle & Heritage Centre | Castle Street, Dalkey, Co. Dublin (01 2858366) |
| Drimnagh Castle | Longmile Road, Dublin 12 (01 4502530) |
| Dublin Castle | Dublin 2 (01 6777129) |
| Malahide Castle | Malahide, Co. Dublin (01 8462184) |
| Trinity College | College Street, Dublin 2 (01 6082308) |