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LIBERTIES CULTURAL ASSOCIATION
WALKING TOURS OF THE LIBERTIES
SATURDAY 13TH MAY
Michael Mallin Walking Tour
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3PM
Booking advised but not essential
Join Sean Tapley and James Madigan from Liberties Cultural Association on a walk through the Liberties, commemorating and remembering the life of executed 1916 hero Michael Mallin and his family, who's roots in the Liberties extend back over 200 years.
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Michael Mallin, Commendant and Chief of Staff of the Irish Citizen Army was born in Wards Hill, lived in Meath Street and Francis Street. He was a soldier, an activist, a silk weaver and a musician.
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Meet outside Teelings in Newmarket at 3pm, finishing in Mallin Park at 4.30pm. Please arrive ten minutes before start time.
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Booking Advised but not essential
Please arrive ten minutes before start time for registration.
Duration of the walk is approximately an hour and a half.
Meet outside Pearse Lyons Distillery, James’s Street.
SUNDAY 15TH MAY
Seven Liberties Churches and a Drop of the Hard Stuff
12 PM
Booking Required
Join Noel Fleming and Kieran Doyle O’Brien from the Liberties Cultural Association on a walk through the heart of the Liberties. Along the way we’ll share stories about some of the iconic churches of this historic part of the city. Although many of them were founded in medieval times all, with one exception, were rebuilt in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Our walk begins at the Pearse Lyons Distillery, former Saint James’s Church (Anglican). It’s one of the new distilleries in an area that was once home to the world’s largest whiskey and beer producers and because of that, was often referred to as ‘the Golden Triangle’.
We will be walking for a distance of about 1.6km on footpaths, crossing some busy streets and finishing in Saint Audoen’s Park. An additional tour of St Audoen's Church will be available after the walking tour.
We plan to go inside a couple of church buildings with wheelchair access. No dogs, please!