Ingenious Ireland
Ingenious Ireland
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Unique, hidden, different! Discover how the Irish changed the world, and other hidden Dublin stories on this fun, friendly and fascinating tour. Our enthusiastic and knowledgeable guides will open your eyes to fascinating Irish inventions. Then you can amaze your friends afterwards with all you've discovered! Regular tours in summer, or enjoy a tour whenever you want with our 'ready-to-go' MP3 tours and apps.
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Sinead O
Dublin, Ireland1 contribution
Aug 2011
Ingenious Ireland produce audio guides to certain aspects of Dublin life and Irish heritage. I used the 'Dublin Rocks!' tour and 'Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin' tours. These audio guides provide all the advantages of a guided tour around Dublin without the hassle. There is no craning your neck at the back of the pack trying to hear your tour guide. There is no fear of tummy rumbling, wondering when it will finish just so you can get something to eat.
The Ingenious Ireland audio tours let you find out about the city at YOUR convenience. You can pause half way through and grab some lunch. It lets you linger at something you may find extra interesting rather than hurrying you along to the next stop. I would highly recommend it to any traveller who wishes to learn about a particular subject while still having the option of meandering around town at their leisure.
I am a native of Dublin city and the information presented was highly informative and enjoyable. I was able to share the information with my two children as we walked around the Botanic Gardens (this tour can be downloaded as an app free of charge!) I am looking forward to the new release of seeing Dublin through the magic of numbers to discover where this may lead me...
The Ingenious Ireland audio tours let you find out about the city at YOUR convenience. You can pause half way through and grab some lunch. It lets you linger at something you may find extra interesting rather than hurrying you along to the next stop. I would highly recommend it to any traveller who wishes to learn about a particular subject while still having the option of meandering around town at their leisure.
I am a native of Dublin city and the information presented was highly informative and enjoyable. I was able to share the information with my two children as we walked around the Botanic Gardens (this tour can be downloaded as an app free of charge!) I am looking forward to the new release of seeing Dublin through the magic of numbers to discover where this may lead me...
Written 30 August 2011
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bluelady60
Dublin, Ireland108 contributions
Nov 2014 • Friends
Patrick took us on a ramble around Merrion Square a Georgian bastion in Dublin City centre .... This was never going to be your " ordinary " waking tour and that became all the more apparent to the gathered stalwarts on this damp overcast November morning when Patrick promised us tales of Naked Nymphs, Hidden Headstone in a Georgian Garden and Hiberno Austrian Marriage Infidelities not to mention the whereabouts of a WW11 Air Raid Shelter !!!
It had all the classic ingredients for an blockbuster novel .... And did Patrick deliver on his promise ? He absolutely did !!
Superbly enjoyable walking tour from Ingenious Ireland awaits you, come and enjoy the adventure
It had all the classic ingredients for an blockbuster novel .... And did Patrick deliver on his promise ? He absolutely did !!
Superbly enjoyable walking tour from Ingenious Ireland awaits you, come and enjoy the adventure
Written 29 November 2014
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cododub
3 contributions
Sept 2013
What a brilliant 2 hours on a rainy Saturday with the enigmatic and charmingly eccentric Patrick "gem" Roycroft, a Gemologist and poly entertainer extraordinair! It was the most enjoyable tour I've ever been on with witty and charming stories delivered with such passion and enthusiasm. If you thought science was boring then this is the tour for you along with all those geeks. I will go again, yes, it was that good!!! A must do...
Written 7 September 2013
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Patmos31
Patmos32 contributions
Aug 2013 • Couples
Most city tours are aimed for first time tourists. Ingenious Ireland tours though are different! Here is a tour with fresh, astounding material you definitely haven't heard before no matter how many times you have visited Dublin. Fun and informative with lots of 'Wow' moments and ...chocolate! Bring your tourist friends along and show them yet more reasons why you are proud to be Irish!
Written 26 August 2013
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Alessandra
Dublin, Ireland15 contributions
Jul 2013 • Family
Patrick, the excellent geologist that guided us through this amazing tour, taught us a lot of interesting things about Dublin I have never heard before. I am so grateful he shared is deep passion for stones, geology, history (and you mustn't forget his sense of humour) with all the attendees. Thank you!
Written 29 July 2013
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GailAltadena
Altadena, California11 contributions
Mar 2015 • Friends
We were in Dublin the week of St Patrick's Day, and did the Ingenious Dublin tour. It was one of the most interesting, entertaining and enjoyable tours we've ever done. We walked around the heart of Dublin with our enthusiastic and knowledgeable guide Patrick Roycroft, as he told fascinating stories about many of the brilliant Irish minds that have made great contributions to science, medicine and mathematics. A great way to see Dublin, and learn something along the way! Highly recommend.
Written 31 March 2015
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Sharleen
Dublin, Ireland17 contributions
Jul 2014 • Friends
Did you know that there is a bomb shelter underneath Merrion Sq? Or that Hans Sloane basically invented the chocolate that we know today? No... well you should definitely join one of the tours that ingenious walking tours organise. I went along to the "The Irish ideas & inventions that changed the world" as part of The Festival of Curiosity. Ronan, our guide, was extremely informed and captured his audience with interesting facts (and fictions)
I throughly enjoyed the tour and will definitely be popping along to another walking tour in the future
I throughly enjoyed the tour and will definitely be popping along to another walking tour in the future
Written 2 September 2014
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Daniel D
Dublin, Ireland3 contributions
Sept 2013 • Friends
This was great! Patrick was our guide and he couldn't have been more enthusiastic or better fun. Get on it.
Written 1 September 2013
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beadgeek
1 contribution
Aug 2013
Charismatic 'mad scientist' geologer Patrick relays entertaining and enlightening stories about some of the great known and lesser known pioneering scientists and their inventions in ireland in a guided tour around trinity college and merrion square. The origins of electricity, the tale of the first elephant dissection in templebar in the 17 th century, the design of guiness can widgets in the 1980's and Schrodingers unorthodox love life are all regaled with bucket loads of irish pride. An extremely memorable and engaging tour. I learned alot. Thanx Patrick. You're a gem.
Written 28 August 2013
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Upskill
Dublin, Ireland12 contributions
Aug 2012 • Friends
I've taken two of Ingenious Ireland's Dublin tours: the inventions tour and the Blood and Gore, I think it's called, medical tour. Both are fascinating.
The inventions tour walked us around Dublin starting in Trinity College, and showed us where quaternions (the basis of the Internet), Boolean data, copyright - oh, all kinds of things - originated in our native city. Plus less-known Irish inventions: Sudocrem (now trendy because Ashley Cole revealed it as a beauty aid); Sugru, the hacker's friend; postage stamps, and of course whiskey. And this tour included a goody-bag of Irish inventions.
The tour guide on the inventions tour I took is quite famous in Ireland - author of books about Irish science, and a radio and TV presenter. On the blood-and-gore tour, it was a young man with an encyclopaedic knowledge of his subject and a charming and friendly delivery.
The blood-and-guts tour (over-18s only!) showed us an 18th-century condom - eww - and toured us around the places where the hypodermic syringe and the stereo stethoscope were invented, Dublin's first maternity hospital, hidden behind the familiar facades of George's Street, the leprosarium that was Stephen's Green (St Stephen is patron saint of lepers!), and the pits where the plague dead were buried and the space off trendy Grafton Street where the sack-'em-up bodysnatchers of the 18th century fought with bereaved families over the bodies of the recently dead. More fun than a barrel of monkeys.
The inventions tour walked us around Dublin starting in Trinity College, and showed us where quaternions (the basis of the Internet), Boolean data, copyright - oh, all kinds of things - originated in our native city. Plus less-known Irish inventions: Sudocrem (now trendy because Ashley Cole revealed it as a beauty aid); Sugru, the hacker's friend; postage stamps, and of course whiskey. And this tour included a goody-bag of Irish inventions.
The tour guide on the inventions tour I took is quite famous in Ireland - author of books about Irish science, and a radio and TV presenter. On the blood-and-gore tour, it was a young man with an encyclopaedic knowledge of his subject and a charming and friendly delivery.
The blood-and-guts tour (over-18s only!) showed us an 18th-century condom - eww - and toured us around the places where the hypodermic syringe and the stereo stethoscope were invented, Dublin's first maternity hospital, hidden behind the familiar facades of George's Street, the leprosarium that was Stephen's Green (St Stephen is patron saint of lepers!), and the pits where the plague dead were buried and the space off trendy Grafton Street where the sack-'em-up bodysnatchers of the 18th century fought with bereaved families over the bodies of the recently dead. More fun than a barrel of monkeys.
Written 25 September 2012
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will you be doing these tours around 10th May?
Written 1 April 2016
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