Dublin's True Crime Walking Tour Covers Gangland and Historic Heists
# Dublin's Streets Hold a True Crime History That Stretches from 1796 to Modern Gangland
A walking tour operating in Dublin city centre takes participants through several centuries of Irish criminal history — from Georgian-era grave robbers and a brazen jewel theft at Dublin Castle to the gangland violence that shocked the Irish public in the 1990s.
What the Tour Covers
The Dublin True Crime Walking Tour departs from the tree by Starbucks at College Green and ends at either St. Audoen's Park or the Dubh Linn Gardens at Dublin Castle. The route is confirmed to cover topics including the Tiger Kidnappings that terrorised Irish families in the 2000s, the 2009 Bank of Ireland Heist, murders connected to Trinity College, the trade in stolen corpses, and two cases that have become defining moments in Irish criminal history.
The first is the Irish Crown Jewels Heist of 1907, when the Irish Crown Jewels — including a diamond-encrusted star and badge of the Order of St. Patrick — were stolen from a safe inside Dublin Castle. The theft was never solved, and the jewels have never been recovered.
The second is the murder of Veronica Guerin, an investigative journalist shot dead in her car at a red light on the outskirts of Dublin on 26 June 1996. Guerin had spent years exposing the leading figures of the Dublin drugs trade at considerable personal risk, and her assassination prompted the Irish government to establish the Criminal Assets Bureau. Her story remains one of the most significant true crime cases in Irish history.
