Race and Place in the City - Culture Night 2025 Special

"Mind blowing" "Brilliant" "I will never look at these streets the same again" This 90-minute walking tour of Lwr Gardiner Street and its laneways, has featured on RTÉ Lyric FM, Culture Night 2023-2024 and with numerous schools, colleges and community groups. Using stories of local buildings and places, Richard Carson invites participants to reimagine our relationship with the place and with one another. Using history, theology and more, we will encounter how the colonial imagination was established in the place of the north east inner city and is still yet to be exorcised. A local wedding that united two settings of 19th-century colonialism from opposite sides of the world and how what happened at the site of Store St. Garda Station over 250 years ago reminds us that so-called “new communities” are not so new after all: just 2 of many unexpected stories to be encountered on the night.

Host or Publisher ACET Ireland