We are delighted to be taking part in the first Ballybough & North Strand festival of history - sponsored by #NEIC and Dublin City Council. Free tickets go on sale with Eventbrite Monday 2nd of Sept. Walking Tours/WhiskeyTasting/FurnitureRestoration/#History Exhibitions & more

Monto Walking Tour On this Saturday September 7th Meet up at 2pm outside the Spar shop on the very end of Talbot Street facing Connolly Train Station. Tour 2hours Cost €10. Walk back it time in what was Dublin’s infamous red-light district known at, Monto.

In 1932, I was sentenced to 9 years by Judge Little. The school inspector, JJ Byrne, swore my life away to the judge. Boys escaped; they were captured by the police. Christian Brothers rubbed dirt on their faces and ripped their clothes, saying they were found hiding in ditches."

1930s Paddy Kearns recalls the walking saint of Artane Industrial School, Joe Golden, who brought food into Artane to feed the boys in the bakery. He would tell the Christian Brothers to get out of the bakery; you’re upsetting my boys. “They got us when we came out of the bakery”

I interviewed Maggie, she recalled Monto madam Becky Cooper. "I used to go to the pawnshop for Becky. When Monto was shut down (1925) she pawned everything she had. She would get drunk in the pub and end up thrown out onto the streets, she sometimes broke the pub's windows.”

Monto Walking Tour On This Saturday 14th September. Time 2pm. Meet outside the Spar Shop on the very lower end of Talbot Street facing Connolly Train Station on Amiens Street. Tour 2hours. Cost €10. No booking required.

terry.fagan Culture Night - Free Monto Walking Tour Friday 20th September 2024. Time: 6pm. Meet outside The Lab on Foley Street & James Joyce Street Dublin 1. To celebrate Culture Night, historian Terry Fagan author of the book on Monto will take a group on a walking tour.

On again, Saturday, 28 September ! Writers, Painters, Rebels - A Walking Tour of Artistic Dublin MontoWalkingTours National Museum of Ireland National Library of Ireland Visit Dublin EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum The James Joyce Centre History Ireland Samuel Beckett thelionandtheshamrock.com/2024/04/01/wri…

**Walking Tour Announcement** Join us for a walking tour on Friday, September 20th, 2024, at 6 PM. We will meet outside The Lab, located at the corner of Foley Street and James Joyce Street, Dublin 1. In honor of Culture Night, historian Terry Fagan, author of the book on Monto,

The arrow points to the doorway on Corporation Street where the founder of the Legion of Mary Frank Duff first met Monto madam May Oblong. The big gate to the left in the photo is where May kept her horse & carriage she used for driving around Monto.

Monto Walking Tour On This Saturday 21st September. (Time 2pm.) Meet outside the Spar Shop on the very end of Talbot Street, right facing Connolly Train Station on Amiens Street, Dublin 1. Tour 2hours. Cost €10

Monto Walking Tour on this Saturday, 21st September. Meet outside the Spare Shop on the very end of Talbot Street facing Train Station, time 2pm. Tour 2hours cost €10.