FILM/ONLINE

Online

Home – a conversation between artist Pat Curran and architectural historian Dr Ellen Rowley

Open House Plus Film

Virtual Tour

Online

Sandycove

Courtney McDonnell

Online Tours Virtual Tours

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Friday

US Embassy

John M. Johansen, 1964

Building Tours Civic Guided Tours

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Saturday

Grand Canal Dock Tour with Architect James Pike

Outdoor Tours Walking Tours

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Saturday

Abbey Theatre

Michael Scott, 1966

Building Tours Guided Tours

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Saturday

dlr Coastal Mobility Route & Bike Hub Cycling Tour

Outdoor Tours Cycling Tours

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Friday | Sunday

Roe & Co. Distillery

RKD Architects, 2019

Building Tours Corporate Guided Tours

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Friday | Sunday

Guinness Storehouse

RKD Architects, 2000-2021

Building Tours Corporate Guided Tours

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Saturday | Sunday

​​In Our Shoes Walking Tours

Outdoor Tours Walking Tours

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Saturday

Creative Writing with Teens

Open House Junior Education

Saturday

Walking tour of Dublin Port with Hugo McGuinness of the East Wall History Group

Outdoor Tours Walking Tours

Saturday

Walking tour of Dublin Port in Spanish with Marta Lopez of Dublin Port Archive.

Outdoor Tours Walking Tours

Saturday

Walking tour of Dublin Port Centre and the Graving Dock Heritage Area

Outdoor Tours Walking Tours

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Sunday

Temple Bar – Group 91 with Architect Valerie Mulvin

Outdoor Tours Walking Tours

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Saturday

Heuston Station

1850

Building Tours Civic Guided Tours

Online

IAF Building Stories Competition

Open House Junior

Architreks
Open House Junior

Find out more about our Open House Junior programme

Online

IAF Digital Design Challenge

Open House Junior

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Sunday

Big Bus Tour with Hugh Campbell

Outdoor Tours Bus Tour

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Sunday

​​Capel Street and the City Markets

Walking Tours

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Sunday

​​Grand Canal Cycling Tour with Architect Ciarán Ferrie

Outdoor Tours Cycling Tours

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Sunday

Monkstown Public Realm Improvement and Conservation

Outdoor Tours Walking Tours

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Saturday

Turas Teach an Chustaim le Turais Spaisteoireachta Pat Liddy

Outdoor Tours Walking Tours

Friday | Saturday | Sunday

Outdoor animation screening at dlr LexIcon Library and Cultural Centre

Open House Plus

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Sunday

​​Street Art Tour – featuring the dlr Anseo Project

Outdoor Tours Walking Tours

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Sunday

​​Cabinteely Historic Parklands Tour

Outdoor Tours Walking Tours

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Friday

Royal Canal Phase 2 Premium Cycle Project – Walking tour

Outdoor Tours Walking Tours

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FILM/ONLINE

Friday

Site Specific Season 2 – Screening at Lighthouse Cinema

Film

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Sunday

Peace Park & St Audoens Park

Outdoor Tours Walking Tours

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Friday

FAMILY WORKSHOP: Building with LEGO® Bricks With Professional Brick Artist Jessica Farrell

Open House Junior

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FILM/ONLINE

Friday

Site Specific Season 2 – Online Premiere

Film

Online

Stoneybatter Architrek

Open House Junior Self-Guided Tours

Online

Dublin 8 Architrek

Open House Junior Self-Guided Tours

The Big Debate - Living for the City

Find Out More

Online

Dundrum Architrek

Open House Junior Self-Guided Tours

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Saturday

ESB Headquarters Fitzwilliam Street – Outdoor tour with Yvonne Farrell & James Pike

Outdoor Tours Walking Tours

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Saturday

Big Bus Tour with Gregory Dunn & Luís Pedro

Outdoor Tours Bus Tour

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Sunday

Big Bus Tour with Séamus Bairéad

Outdoor Tours Bus Tour

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Saturday

Big Bus Tour with Emma Gilleece

Outdoor Tours Bus Tour

Saturday | Sunday

Marshalsea Barracks

Open House Plus

Online

Back to the Street: Dublin’s Social Housing in the 1970s

Online Talk

Online

How office block architecture of the 1970s changed the way Dubliners worked

Online Talk

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Saturday

DCU Campus Tour with Eamon McCarney

Outdoor Tours Walking Tours

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Online

Reimagining Dublin One Laneways

Outdoor Tours Walking Tours

Online

George Jameson House

ABGC Architects

Online Tours

FILM/ONLINE

Online

Site Specific 2021: Pigeon House Power Station

Film Site Specific

FILM/ONLINE

Online

Site Specific 2021: Iveagh Markets

Film Site Specific

FILM/ONLINE

Online

Site Specific 2021: College of Catering

Film Site Specific

FILM/ONLINE

Online

Site Specific 2021: Cork Street Fever Hospital (Brú Chaoimhín)

Online Tours Film

FILM/ONLINE

Online

Site Specific 2021: Baltrasna House

Online Tours Film Site Specific

Site Specific Films Series

Site Specific is a special commission of ten short documentaries for Open House Dublin 2020. Watch Now

FILM/ONLINE

Online

Site Specific 2021: Four Courts

Film Site Specific

FILM/ONLINE

Online

Cycle Tour with Ciarán Ferrie and Bob Hannon

Online Tours Film

Online

Grace Wilentz poetry reading at Marlay House

Online

Blackhall Place – Online tour

Online Tours

Virtual Tour

Online

Pergola

Architectural Farm

Online Tours Virtual Tours

Virtual Tour

Online

Hiding in Plain Sight

Architectural Farm

Online Tours Virtual Tours

Virtual Tour

Online

Fern Cottage

The Architects

Online Tours Virtual Tours

Virtual Tour

Online

Thomas Street

Lawrence & Long Architects

Online Tours Virtual Tours

Virtual Tour

Online

House in Portobello

Newmark Architects

Online Tours Virtual Tours

Virtual Tour

Online

Claremont Park

Robert Bourke Architects

Online Tours Virtual Tours

Virtual Tour

Online

Cliff House

Karen Brownlee

Online Tours Virtual Tours

Virtual Tour

Online

House at Ballyboughal

Flavio Lombardo Architects

Online Tours Virtual Tours

Virtual Tour

Online

House at Kimmage

Steve Larkin Architects

Online Tours Virtual Tours

Virtual Tour

Online

Placencia

Brennan | Furlong Architects & Urban Planners

Online Tours Virtual Tours

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Sunday

Rochestown House

1960/2016-17

Building Tours Guided Tours

Online

Watch it now! The Big Debate-Living for the City

Online Tours Debates & Webinars

Volunteer

Open House Dublin couldn’t happen without our volunteers. We are currently recruiting enthusiastic, welcoming volunteers who are passionate about their city!  Apply Now

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Saturday

The National Library of Ireland: History & Heritage

Online Talk

Virtual Tour

Saturday | Sunday

Airfield Junior: 360 Virtual Time Travel Tour

Open House Junior Virtual Tours

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Saturday | Sunday

Open Heart City Exhibition

Exhibition

Online

Home Energy Upgrade Webinar

Open House Plus Debates & Webinars

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Friday

Conversations About the Dead Zoo

Online Talk

Saturday

Print a house

Open House Junior

Saturday

Pocket Gallery- an art and architecture workshop for children

Open House Junior

Saturday | Sunday

Little Houses Exhibition

Open House Junior Exhibition

Saturday

The Chronological Mind of the Clock Tower

Open House Junior

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Saturday

Imaginative Drawing Workshop

Open House Junior

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Friday | Saturday

Saint Patrick’s Cathedral – Roof Tour

2021

Building Tours Guided Tours

Saturday | Sunday

Rathfarnham Castle

1583

Building Tours Self-Guided Tours

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Saturday

The Provost’s House

John Smyth, 1759

Building Tours Guided Tours

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Friday | Saturday | Sunday

Solid Space and Sound Junior – National Gallery of Ireland

Building Tours | Open House Junior Outdoor Tours

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Friday | Saturday | Sunday

Solid Space and Sound – National Gallery of Ireland

Building Tours | Outdoor Tours

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Saturday | Sunday

National Botanic Gardens Glasshouses

Richard Turner /Ciaran O’Connor restoration, 1843

Building Tours Guided Tours

Saturday

MoLI – Museum of Literature Ireland

Scott Tallon Walker Architects, 1738/2019

Building Tours Guided Tours

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Saturday

Marsh’s Library

Sir William Robinson & Thomas De Burgh, 1703

Building Tours Guided Tours

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Friday | Saturday | Sunday

Freemasons’ Hall

Edward Holmes, 1869

Building Tours Guided Tours

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Sunday

Dublin Castle: From the War of Independence to its Handover to Michael Collins, 1919-1922

c18th

Outdoor Tours Guided Tours

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Saturday

Guided Tour of Dublin Castle & the Dubh Linn Gardens

c18th

Building Tours | Outdoor Tours Guided Tours

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Sunday

National Museum of Ireland, Decorative Arts & History, Collins Barracks

Thomas Burgh, 1704

Outdoor Tours Guided Tours

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Saturday

Clock Tower Building – Chester Beatty

Francis Johnston, 1756

Building Tours Guided Tours

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Sunday

27 Ballybough House

Herbert Simms, 1938

Building Tours

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Saturday

18 Ormond Quay Upper

1843

Building Tours

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Saturday | Sunday

A REACTION TO PLACE – Exposition

1889

Building Tours Exposition

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Sunday

Magazine Fort

1736

Outdoor Tours Guided Tours Walking Tours

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Saturday

Grangegorman Military Cemetery

Outdoor Tours Guided Tours Walking Tours

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Saturday

Lost Ireland – Hammams, Hotels and Hector Grey’s

Outdoor Tours Guided Tours Walking Tours

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Saturday | Sunday

Iveagh Gardens

Outdoor Tours Guided Tours Walking Tours

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Saturday

West of Capel Street: Monasteries; Markets and Prisons

Outdoor Tours Guided Tours Walking Tours

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Saturday | Sunday

Walk + Talk along Inchicore Road

Outdoor Tours Guided Tours Walking Tours

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Sunday

St Teresa’s Gardens

Outdoor Tours Guided Tours Walking Tours

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Sunday

Rathmines, a history and architecture walking tour

Outdoor Tours Guided Tours Walking Tours

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Saturday | Sunday

Placemaking in The Liberties

Outdoor Tours Guided Tours Walking Tours

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Saturday | Sunday

Hidden History of Dublin Homes Tour

Outdoor Tours Guided Tours Walking Tours

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Saturday | Sunday

Grand Canal Dock Boat Tour

Outdoor Tours Boat Tours Guided Tours

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Friday

Georgian Dublin Walking Tour

Outdoor Tours Guided Tours Walking Tours

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Sunday

Four Courts Walking Tour

Outdoor Tours Guided Tours Walking Tours

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Sunday

Alternative Liffey Photowalk

Outdoor Tours Guided Tours Walking Tours

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Friday | Saturday

Dublin Dash Tours at Phoenix Park

Outdoor Tours Guided Tours Walking Tours

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Friday | Saturday | Sunday

CHQ Docklands Walking Tour

Outdoor Tours Guided Tours Walking Tours

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Saturday

Custom House Walking Tour with Pat Liddy’s Walking Tours

Outdoor Tours Guided Tours Walking Tours

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Friday

Climate Change and the Public Realm

Outdoor Tours Guided Tours

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Saturday

City Centre Bridges

Outdoor Tours Guided Tours Walking Tours

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Saturday | Sunday

Architecture of Dundrum Village

Outdoor Tours Guided Tours Walking Tours

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Sunday

Mountpleasant Square Walking Tour

Outdoor Tours Guided Tours Walking Tours

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Sunday

Marlay Park House Courtyard Tour

Outdoor Tours Guided Tours Walking Tours

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Sunday

Marlay Historic Parklands Tour

Outdoor Tours Guided Tours Walking Tours

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Saturday

Lost Prisons of Dublin – North

Outdoor Tours

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Saturday

Lost Prisons of Dublin – South

Outdoor Tours Guided Tours Walking Tours

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Sunday

Inside The Pale-Singing Tour with An Góilín Traditional Singers

Outdoor Tours Walking Tours

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Saturday | Sunday

Chapelizod via Irish War Memorial Gardens

Outdoor Tours Cycling Tours Guided Tours

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Sunday

14 Henrietta Street presents A Street Safari

Open House Junior | Outdoor Tours

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Saturday

2-5 Ballybough Road

ca. 1830 / 2019

Outdoor Tours

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Sunday

Deansgrange Library

1982 Opened, Renovations in 2012 and 2021

Building Tours Guided Tours

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Saturday | Sunday

Quayside Quarter

RKD and Arrow Architects, 2020

Building Tours Guided Tours

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Saturday | Sunday

Kilmainham Congregational Church

John O’Connell Architects, 2009

Building Tours Guided Tours

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Friday | Saturday

Rediscovery Centre

2017

Guided Tours

FILM/ONLINE

OHD2020

Recovering Space: Thoughts on a post-pandemic city

Film

FILM/ONLINE

OHD2020

Site Specific Season One

Film

FILM/ONLINE

OHD2020

Site Specific: Playpark

Film

FILM/ONLINE

OHD2020

Site Specific: Aerial

Film

FILM/ONLINE

OHD2020

Site Specific: Poolbeg Chimneys

Film

FILM/ONLINE

OHD2020

Site Specific: Parnell Square

Film

FILM/ONLINE

OHD2020

Site Specific: Temple Bar

Film

FILM/ONLINE

OHD2020

Site Specific: Priory

Film

FILM/ONLINE

OHD2020

Site Specific: The Loos Bar

Film

FILM/ONLINE

OHD2020

Site Specific: Rosemount Court

Film

FILM/ONLINE

OHD2020

Site Specific: Dolphin House

Film

FILM/ONLINE

OHD2020

Site Specific: Chapel Royal

Film

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Saturday

Mansion House

Joshua Dawson, 1710

Building Tours Self-Guided Tours

Virtual Tour

Online

James Joyce Tower

Virtual Tours

Online

Paper Models with O’Mahony Pike Architects

O’Mahony Pike

Open House Junior

OHD2020

Marino + Fairview Architrek

Open House Junior Self-Guided Tours

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Saturday

Dublin Port Boat Tour on the St Bridget

Outdoor Tours Boat Tours

OHD2020

Dún Laoghaire Architrek

Open House Junior Self-Guided Tours

OHD2020

Temple Bar Architrek

Open House Junior Self-Guided Tours

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Saturday

The Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland

1780

Building Tours Guided Tours

Virtual Tour

Online

Cabinteely House

Virtual Tours

Virtual Tour

Online

Marlay House

Virtual Tours

Virtual Tour

Online

Oratory of the Sacred Heart

Virtual Tours

Virtual Tour

Online

National Maritime Museum of Ireland

Virtual Tours

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Saturday

Wholesale Fruit and Vegetable Market

Parke Neville, 1884

Building Tours Civic

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Sunday

Airfield Farm and Estate

Michael Haslam, 1910 and 2013

Outdoor Tours

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Sunday

Royal St George Yacht Club

John Skipton Mulvanny, 1860

Guided Tours

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Saturday

St. Patrick’s Cathedral

Unknown, 1220-1259

Building Tours Guided Tours

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Saturday

The Douglas Hyde Gallery

Paul Koralek & McCullough Mulvin Architects, 1978 / 2001

Building Tours Guided Tours

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Saturday

Pigeon House Power Station

Dublin Corporation, 1903

Outdoor Tours Guided Tours

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Saturday

Old Library

William Robinson & Thomas Burgh, 1732

Building Tours Guided Tours

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Saturday | Sunday

Na Píobairí Uilleann

Restoration Raymond McGinley Architects, Circa 1740s

Building Tours Guided Tours

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Sunday

Museum Building

Deane, Woodward & Deane, 1853-57

Building Tours Guided Tours

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Saturday

Goethe-Institut Irland

Martin Henchion, 2018

Building Tours Guided Tours

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Saturday | Sunday

Digital Depot

DCC Architects, 1950/ 2003

Building Tours Guided Tours

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Saturday | Sunday

Blackhall Place

Thomas Ivory, 1773-1780

Building Tours Guided Tours

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Saturday

Arts Building Trinity College

Ahrends Burton Koralek, 1968

Building Tours Guided Tours

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Saturday | Sunday

CHQ building

John Rennie, 1820

Building Tours Guided Tours

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Saturday

Irish Architectural Archive

Unknown, 1794

Building Tours Guided Tours

Saturday | Sunday

Farmleigh House & Estate

James Franklin Fuller, 1881-84

Saturday

Kilmainham Gaol

1796

Building Tours Guided Tours

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Saturday | Sunday

Busáras – Áras Mhic Dhiarmada

Michael Scott, 1952

Building Tours Guided Tours