Malahide Castle & Gardens
Medieval castle and gardens where one family lived for nearly eight hundred years before ceding it to the state.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Malahide Castle in Dublin opens on a July morning in 1690, when fourteen men of the Talbot family, who had held this castle since 1185, sat down together for breakfast in the great hall before riding out to fight for King James II at the Battle of the Boyne. It follows the Talbots across the centuries after that day, through the family's decision to stay Catholic under a Protestant crown and the long, unusual run that kept them living in these rooms generation after generation. Stand in that same great hall as you listen.
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