Meeting point: Guud Day Cafe, 28-32 O’Connell St. Upper, Dublin 1, D01 T2X2

Much of Caitríona Lally’s Eggshells captures the soul of the north inner city. Join Arron Henderson of Dublin Decoded Tours for a walk around Dublin City’s North and North-West taking in some of its extraordinary and unexpected history. Starting from Upper O’Connell Street and ending in Grangegorman, this walk takes in everything from the early modernism of the Hendron’s building and the Egyptian-influenced high 19th century neo-classicism of the former Broadstone railway terminus, to former workhouses, asylums and more.

Important:  This is not a loop walk, it starts at Upper O’Connell St at 2pm and ends at TUD Campus, Grangegorman at 3.45pm.

Caitriona Lally has published two novels, Eggshells (2015) and Wunderland (2021).  She won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2018 and a Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction in 2019. She was the inaugural Rooney Writer Fellow at the Trinity Long Room Hub in 2022,and was one of the 2024 New Voices 20 Best New Irish Writers.

Booking is essential as places are limited.