Gillian O'Brien
Historian specializing in Irish history and Dublin's past, providing expert commentary on the city's cultural, political and architectural development.
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Mar 17, 2026 • 1h 6min
Culture and conflict: a historical tour of Dublin
Gillian O'Brien, historian of Irish history and Dublin's past, guides a lively tour of the city's turbulent and cultural history. She traces Viking roots, Norman power shifts, and the Pale's legacy. She sketches Georgian grandeur beside tenement poverty, famine effects, nationalist struggles, civil war scars, and modern Celtic Tiger reinvention. She ends with top sites and seaside tips.
