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Private Mesmerizing Dublin: Walking Tour for Couples
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Dublin has more than its fair share of love stories, hidden laneways, and characters that are worth knowing about. This private 2-hour walking tour is built around them - sharing the city’s more tender history with you and your partner at a pace that suits you both.
Your guide meets you at Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church, where the tour begins. The church holds the relics of Saint Valentine - a fact that genuinely surprises most visitors, even those who’ve been to Dublin before. From there you move through some of the quieter parts of the city centre, passing The Long Hall, one of Dublin’s most historic pubs with over 250 years of trade behind it, and on to Lover’s Lane, formerly known as Crampton Court, where the ‘Love The Lanes’ initiative has transformed a quiet street into a gallery of artists’ work and stories.
The route crosses the Ha’penny Bridge, Dublin’s famous pedestrian crossing that was once so covered in couples’ padlocks that notices went up asking people to stop. You’ll also see the Molly Malone statue on Suffolk Street - immortalised in bronze after the song made famous by The Dubliners - before finishing at the Oscar Wilde Memorial near his childhood home, now the American College Dublin.
Meeting point: The main entrance of Whitefriar Street Church, Aungier Street, Dublin 2, D02 YF57, Ireland.
Most visitors walk straight past Whitefriar Street Church without knowing what’s inside. It sits on Aungier Street, a busy commuter route, and looks modest enough from the outside. But the church has held the relics of Saint Valentine since 1836, when they were donated by Pope Gregory XVI - a quietly remarkable fact for a city more associated with Guinness and Joyce than with romance.
The Long Hall on South Great George’s Street is one of those pubs you should go back to in the evening. The Victorian interior has barely changed - the original mahogany bar, the ornate mirrors, the high ceilings - and it gets genuinely busy on weekend nights with a good mix of locals and visitors. Going in on the tour gives you a reason to return when the atmosphere is at its best.
Ha’penny Bridge looks its most photogenic from the south quay looking north. The curved white cast-iron arch with the Liffey below it and the city beyond - that’s the frame most people aim for. Early morning is the clearest time to get the shot without crowds. The bridge itself dates from 1816 and was originally a toll crossing - one half-penny to cross, which is where the name comes from.
The Oscar Wilde Memorial at Merrion Square is one of the more playful public monuments in Dublin. Rather than a solemn bronze figure on a plinth, it’s a reclining Wilde in polished stone, with two additional figures across the road. The surrounding park at Merrion Square has a long tradition of art exhibitions on the railings on Sundays, and the Georgian architecture of the square itself is some of the best preserved in the city.
Grafton Street is a short walk from several points on this tour. If you’re looking for somewhere to sit down afterwards, Bewley’s Oriental Café on Grafton Street has been serving coffee since 1840 and has one of the best interiors in Dublin - the Harry Clarke stained glass windows behind the counter are worth stopping for on their own.