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Evoking the timeless spirit of our capital ,from18th-century dandies, to liberationist women and the sneering punks of recent times This tour moves from College Green and Trinity College, up Grafton Street to St Stephen’s Green, taking in statues and buildings connected to famous characters. On Grafton Steet, in 1758, there was Whyte's Academy, a ‘Seminary for the Instruction of Youth’. The pupils included dramatist Richard Brinsley Sheridan (‘The School for Scandal’) patriot Robert Emmet and a young Duke of Wellington. Yes, he was Irish – up to a point. We hear about Maud Gonne, the beautiful rebel who inspired the love poems of William Butler Yeats – and still turned him down. We look in on the literary pubs of the 1950s and 60s, frequented by Brendan Behan and Patrick Kavanagh. And we hear about the former McGonagles nite club where Hippies, Mods and Punks danced over the decades. Our tour guide Eamon Delaney, a teenage punk himself tells us about the rock shows back then, the Clash, The Blades and an emerging band called U2.

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