The Dublin Riviera walking tour

Name: The Dublin Riviera walking tour
Start: 2025-12-27T11:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-12-27T12:30:00+00:00
Location: Harbour Plaza, Dun Laoghaire

Schedule

Sat Dec 27 2025 at 11:00 am to 12:30 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Harbour Plaza, Dun Laoghaire | Dublin, DN

The Dublin Riviera is a guided walk back in time to a golden era where local Dun Laoghaire residents and visitors wined and dined in the yacht clubs, restaurants and hotels along the waterfront, and danced in the Pavilion, the ballrooms and the nightclubs. The walk will provide an insight into the symbiotic relationship between the harbour and the town and how this helped Dún Laoghaire to evolve into an elegant and glamorous centre of hospitality, entertainment and luxurious bathing, a “Dublin Riviera”.
The walk is led by Eileen O’Duffy, a local historian and the author of two books, ‘From Dirt and Dips to Dryrobes, bathing in Dun Laoghaire through the ages’ and ‘Champagne, Cocktails and Crêpes Suzette, wining, dining and dancing in Dún Laoghaire through the ages’
Highlights:
Waterfront Yacht Clubs and the Royal Visits
The Pavilion and Town Hall
Royal Marine Hotel and Gardens
Haddington Hotel
Former Seafront hotels on Victoria and Marine Terrace
Dún Laoghaire Baths (finish)
Saturdays 11am
Meet at Harbour Plaza (entrance to Old Ferry Terminal)
Tour Duration: 90 minutes €25