Walking Tour Announcement - Legacies of Slavery in Dublin
Join us on Saturday 7 June 2025 from 11:00 - 1:00pm.
I will be running my Legacies of Slavery in Dublin Walking Tour on Saturday 7 June at 11am. All are welcome to join. There is a registration fee of €5 to hold your place.
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If you have any questions or queries, please email me.
Any profits from ticket sales will be donated to a charity supporting migrant rights in Ireland.
Legacies of Slavery in Dublin Walking Tour
About:
This walking tour will plot a trail through Dublin city that highlights some of the histories of slave-ownership in the city. Drawing primarily on research from University College London's Legacies of British Slavery database, this walking tour will profile a range of Dubliners - from investors and philanthropists to widows and profiteers - who participated in slave ownership in the Caribbean between the years 1763 and 1833. In doing so, this walking tour will show both physical and ephemeral legacies of slave-ownership and wealth-building that continue to shape Dublin today through our infrastructures and built heritage.
Tour guide:
Maeve O'Brien is a white Irish woman from Co. Tyrone who believes that white Irish people have a responsibility to acknowledge the often enthusiastic complicity of white Irish people in slave-owning and colonialism across the globe. Maeve has a strong research background - holding a PhD in English Literature - and she works in cultural heritage in Dublin city.
Sorry we won't be able to join! Will be in Dublin a week hence--just missed!
This sounds fascinating Maeve. I'm hoping to come along. Would it be OK to confirm closer to the time?