Blue Badge Guide, Irish Luminaries In London

17 and 18 March (10.30am and 2.30pm both days)
Price: Free

A walking tour of approx 2 hours conducted by a London Blue Badge Guide that goes along Fleet Street, the Temple and into Covent Garden to discover the London links of some of the great names of Irish history:

• W.B.Yeats trying to get a taste for strong drink
• Wolfe Tone's plans to expand the British Empire
• Parnell cheered by thousands in the streets of London
• Oscar Wilde at Bow Street police Station
• Michael Collins at a night class on the Strand
• and the Irish royal mistress.

Fascinating, informative and entertaining!

Starting point: outside Blackfriars Tube station by exit 1 in front of the Blackfriers pub.

No need to book, just show up. For further info contact: 020 7263 6235.