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In Our Shoes Dublin Walking Tour
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The Liberties is the oldest part of Dublin and the people who live there have stories that don’t appear in any guidebook. In Our Shoes is an award-winning walking tour run as a social enterprise, specifically focused on creating employment for people from the community. Your guides live in the area, and that comes through in every story they tell.
Over 90 minutes you’ll move at an easy pace through the high streets and back lanes, taking in landmarks both famous and hidden, local folklore and history that goes far deeper than the usual Dublin circuit. This is the heart of the city - the part that was here before the Georgian squares, before the tourist trail, before the rest of Dublin grew up around it.
Groups are kept to a maximum of 18 people and the pace is genuinely leisurely. This is about discovery, not ticking boxes.
Meeting point: Outside the large iconic Dublin City gates
The Liberties rewards slow looking. The neighbourhood packs a lot of history into a small area, and the best bits are often above eye level - a carved doorway, a faded painted advertisement on a gable wall, a roofline that doesn’t quite match what was built below it. Your guide will point these out, but it’s worth getting into the habit of looking up.
This tour sits completely apart from the usual Dublin circuit. Most visitors to Dublin hit Trinity College, Temple Bar and Grafton Street. The Liberties is right next to all of that but feels like a completely different city. A lot of what your guide covers is stuff that locals know and tourists walk past without realising.
The social enterprise model matters here. In Our Shoes was set up deliberately to create meaningful employment for people from the community. The guides aren’t just trained tour leaders - they’re people with a personal stake in the neighbourhood and the stories they’re telling. That’s a different kind of tour.
Wear comfortable shoes. The ground in parts of the Liberties is uneven, and the back lanes are exactly that. This isn’t a cobblestones-and-coffee-shop stroll - you’re moving through a working neighbourhood at a pace that lets you actually see things.
Book ahead. This one is listed as Likely to Sell Out for good reason. It’s well reviewed, affordably priced and the group size is capped at 18. Particularly busy in summer, but it moves quickly year-round.