castle& Group Rates 2020/2021 heritage centre Public Rate product min/max duration 2020 2021 annual events Open 6 days per week all year. Closed every Tuesday and Dalkey Castle Living Min 10/Max 60 1 hour €13.50 €13.95 Bloomsday Festival at Christmas. History Group Tour Ideal 40 annually 15th & 16th June  Maeve Binchy & Min 10/Max 28 1 hour €13.50 €13.95 Maeve Binchy  dalkeycastle.com Irish Writers and Irish Writers  Guided Walk first weekend in October  www.echoes.ie    Living History Tour + Min 10/Max 28 2¼ hrs €21.60 €22.30   Maeve Binchy and Groups 10-45 Seasonal variations on Living   Irish Writers History Tour at Halloween.   Guided Walk combined Castle Christmas Tours with history   Santa in December. heritage  Discover Dalkey’s Max 75 1 hour Price on   culture literature Literary Gems application Directions  festivals walks Evening only. Dalkey is 12k south of city  cafés bars shops Time flexible from 7.00pm. along a beautiful coastline. restaurants Coach parking is available close by. Maeve Binchy Max 75 1 hour Price on harbours scenery Tribute Show application Further information from Evening only. Margaret Dunne at Time flexible from 7.00pm. [email protected] or tel: 00 353 1 285 8366 Experience Ireland’s Min 15/Max 35 1½ hrs Price on www.dalkeycastle.com Heritage in an Evening application Cover photo: Donal Murphy for dlr CoCo photo: Donal Murphy for Cover

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Archery Workshop application @dalkeycastle @dalkeycastleandheritage Living History Tours Discover Dalkey’s Literary Gems Experience 6.00 pm A bespoke one-hour stage show featuring three actors performing linked extracts from the work Ireland’s Heritage of famous Irish writers, including: J M Synge, in an Evening Flann O’Brien, Hugh Leonard, , , , Maeve Binchy and Van Morrison. It is an enlightening whistle-stop ‘taster’ of the work of Ireland’s internationally acclaimed writers, with linking script by Shay Linehan. Evenings only. Enquire for details.

Maeve Binchy Tribute Show Maeve wrote Aches and Pains as a ‘Cheer Up’ book. Travel back in time and meet She offers hilarious advice on: baring your body costumed actors who will enthral in a nudist colony; how to give up drink and you with their extraordinary skills many more unique and ‘Maeviously’ wonderful The visitor experience is enhanced ailments! The Cook will give you a at Archery, Cookery and Barber perspectives on life. This laugh-out-loud, sen- by a fully guided immersive, fun taster of her favourite, traditional Surgery. sitive adaptation for the stage by Shay Linehan experience with actors from Deilg Irish Mead. Dalkey Castle dates runs for one hour. Inis Theatre Company. The Archer back to 1390 and has Battlements, Evenings only. Enquire for details. will let you try out the ancient Arrow-looped windows, Garderobe Irish longbow. The Barber Surgeon and Machicolation. Go carefully Maeve Binchy and Irish Writers has medieval ways of curing your under the Murder Hole! Guided Walk Learn about the work of famous Irish writers Bodhrán Buzz Taster Session 7.15 including Maeve Binchy, Hugh Leonard, Jennifer pm This is led by an Irish Champion Bodhrán Johnston, Flann O’Brien, James Joyce, Samuel player. Get your wrists moving, your toes Writers’ Gallery: Explore the area’s Browse the interactive screens from Beckett and GB Shaw on a Guided Walk in Dalkey. tapping and have fun with a traditional literary and creative connections in 4500BC (in twelve languages). Fridays at 13.15 (June–Sept). Other times by Irish musical instrument, the Bodhrán. the Writers’ Gallery from Joyce to Experience the tranquility of the appointment. Must be pre-booked. Minimum The tutor gets everyone joining in the fun Bono and Beckett to Maeve Binchy Early Christian Church and Grave- number 10. Tickets €13.50 (2020) €13.95 (2021). of playing Irish jigs and reels. An unforget- and forty more. yard dedicated to local saint, Begnet. Time: One hour. table experience! See back page for booking. →