We begin outside City Hall on Dame Street a 1700’s Coffee House and start to discover the rich coffee culture.
Would you like to enter the world of 1700s Dublin? We will walk beautiful Dublin streets and link the past to now as 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? We will immerse ourselves in the characters such as Johnathon Swift and how he got into hot water with the drapers. We will learn about the people who published, auctions which were held and lives which were lived by the new rich of 1700’s Dublin. We will see how they influenced the arts, public thinking and trade. We will have quotes and notes to understand the players in a very different time.
This is fun and light-hearted Tour with a Coffee Tasting Experience to imagine what 1700’s Dublin felt, looked, smelled and tasted.
For tea lover we have a 1700s tea party, with silver pots & china cups. Was the setting very different to a coffee house? Let’s see…
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