In each week’s free downloadable episode, your host Professor Byron Frump takes you on a tour of another incredible Dublin location. For more information, check out our brief biography of Professor Frump. You can also download previous episodes, or subscribe to the show.

This week Byron explores that dark heart of crime and punishment, touring one of the Irish capital’s best loved historic buildings, Dublin’s Tower of Dublin.

Episode 6 – Dublin’s Tower of Dublin

Directions

This weeks tour begins at the entrance to the Tower of Dublin. The tower is built over the Tulip estuary on the historic grounds of Ballydowd Manor. The museum can be reached in about eleven minutes on foot from the city centre.

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Last September, infamous documentary auteur Cloff ‘Leather Britches’ Chuffbunting, spent two weeks in the company of Professor Byron Frump. Two weeks that were to prove infinitely memorable, not just for Professor Byron Frump, but for our world. This documentary was the result. If you’ve ever wondered what motivates the man so many of us have grown to admire, and perhaps even love, or pondered the life of the unpleasantly rich and desperately famous, ‘Behind The Tour Guide’ will feed your mawkish obsession.

Behind the Tour Guide

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This week Byron returns to Dublin’s National Museum of Ireland, Decorative Arts and History, at Collins Barracks.

Episode 5 – Dublin’s National Museum of Ireland, Decorative Arts and History, Part 2

Directions

This weeks tour begins on the first floor of the Museum. At the entrance to the ‘Irish at War, at Home and Abroad’ exhibit. Collins Barracks is located on Benburb St, close to Heuston Station. The museum can be reached in about 20 minutes on foot from the city centre, via the Luas Red Line, or via a variety of bus routes.

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This week Byron introduces you to Dublin’s National Museum of Ireland, Decorative Arts and History, at Collins Barracks.

Episode 4 – Dublin’s National Museum of Ireland, Decorative Arts and History, Part 1

Directions

This weeks tour begins outside the main entrance of the Museum. Collins Barracks is located on Benburb St, close to Heuston Station. The museum can be reached in about 20 minutes on foot from the city centre, via the Luas Red Line, or via a variety of bus routes.

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This week Byron introduces you to Dublin’s the Provost, Fellows and Scholars of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin.

Episode 3 – Dublin’s Trinity College

Directions

This weeks tour begins outside the main (Dame St) entrance of Trinity College Dublin, at the heart of Dublin.

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This week Byron returns to Dublin’s National Gallery of Ireland.

Episode 2 – Dublin’s National Gallery of Ireland, Part 2

Directions

This weeks tour begins right where Episode 1 left off – at the entrance to the Milltown Wing, which is located on the 2nd floor of the National Gallery. The Gallery itself can be accessed via Nassau St, or Merrion Square.

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This week Byron takes you on the first part of a two part tour of Dublin’s National Gallery of Ireland.

Episode 1 – Dublin’s National Gallery of Ireland, Part 1

Directions

To begin this weeks tour, stand before the Nassau St entrance of Dublin’s National Gallery of Ireland.

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