Jack Caffrey - Tour Guide

06/04/2024

Helen Blackwood of Travel Impresarios and her parents joined me on a tour of Dublin last Saturday. Here we are in front of the historic 'Rubrics' building in Trinity College, the oldest structure on campus. Built as student accommodation in 1705, it still serves the same purpose today.

23/03/2024

Galway is my favourite city to lead tours in - so much to see in such a small area! Pictured here is 'Lynch's Castle' at the top of Shop Street (now an AIB bank branch), the excellently preserved ancestral home of the Lynchs - one of the fourteen tribes of Galway.

23/03/2024

Lovely photo of contemporary Dublin by night. Ulster Bank building at left with Liberty Hall centre and the Spire at right. View is from the IFSC.

10/03/2024

Some of my walking tour clients have been excellent photographers. This shot was taken by an American visitor at dusk in Palace Lane (the laneway between Dublin Castle's main entrance and South Gt George's Street), and features myself in the background on right. Dublin's restaurant kitchens often abut onto laneways situated to the rear of the more popular eateries, which abound with tempting aromas in the later hours of the day.

10/03/2024

Treasa Lynch's excellent site http://eiremarkings.org documents the recently restored 'ÉIRE' signs which were dotted around the Irish coastline during WW2 (there were 82 of them) to indicate to foreign airmen that they were over Irish territory - starting with 'ÉIRE1' in Ballagan Point, Co Louth and moving clockwise around the coast to 'ÉIRE82' in Inishowen, Northern Donegal. The sign below is No.71 in the series, situated at Muckross Point, near Kilcar, southwest of Killybegs.

09/03/2024

Five-in-a-row! Dublin's Lord Mayor, Paul McAuliffe, arrived - very opportunely - as I was concluding my Evening Walking Tour of Dublin on September 14th 2019 with the group of happy campers you see in the photo. The significance of the high fives was that County Dublin had just won the All-Ireland Gaelic Football Trophy for the fifth consecutive year - with the added satisfaction of a victory over their arch rivals, County Kerry. Up the Dubs!

05/03/2024

Wild thing .... My international student group from Maynooth University are introduced to Megalocerops Giganteus (aka the Great Irish Elk, now retired to the Campus Museum at Trinity College) during their orientation tour last September...

05/03/2024

There's something about Victorian street lamp-sets that is definitively 'Dublin'.... This photo by French photographer Greg Dalleau, with a solitary seagull roosting aloft the lamps, captures something of the calm and domesticity of dusk in the city of Dublin...

05/03/2024

Californian Pavel Sfera looks so much like Ireland's greatest rock idol that he has made a career out of working as a Bono double. Here he is with the Green family from Indiana (and myself, somewhere in the middle wearing the blue shirt) beside the Molly Malone statue in Suffolk Street, Dublin 2.

05/03/2024

The Guinness Mask is indeed an interpretation of the keystone head on the entrance to the St James's Gate Brewery. However this keystone head was in turn based on one of the River Gods which adorn Dublin's Georgian masterpiece, the Custom House, which is further downstream...

07/03/2022

28/02/2022

I ran my first live-streamed tour on Friday 25 February to 53 Heygoers, and then my second from Galway City on Saturday 26th to 101 online guests. Thanks to all Heygoers for the encouragement and for your generous tips! Find out what's cooking next on my Heygo Channel by clicking here: https://www.heygo.com/jacks-irish-tours?utm_source=channel_share_link&utm_content=556