Bram Stoker's Dublin: Marino Crescent to Marsh's Library
Dublin, Ireland
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Bram Stoker's Dublin: Marino Crescent to Marsh's Library
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Abraham Stoker was born on 8 November 1847 at 15 Marino Crescent in Clontarf, and spent the first seven years of his life bedridden with an illness nobody ever diagnosed — then recovered completely the day he started school. He went up to Trinity in 1864, and afterwards spent ten years as a civil servant in Dublin Castle while moonlighting as a drama critic for the Dublin Evening Mail: the two jobs that gave Dracula its administrative precision and its theatrical instinct. Marsh's Library, opened in 1707 as the first public library in Ireland, still has the three wire reading cages installed in the 1770s to stop readers stealing the books.
Required Activities
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Find 15 Marino Crescent in Clontarf, where Stoker was born on 8 November 1847
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of 5
Walk Trinity College, where Stoker enrolled in 1864
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of 5
Visit Marsh's Library and find the three wire 'cages' readers were locked into from the 1770s to stop book theft
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of 5
Walk through Dublin Castle, where Stoker spent ten years as a civil servant before he ever wrote Dracula
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of 5
Walk the Georgian streets around Merrion Square and Dublin Castle after dark, the city he grew up in
Find 15 Marino Crescent in Clontarf, where Stoker was born on 8 November 1847
Walk Trinity College, where Stoker enrolled in 1864
Visit Marsh's Library and find the three wire 'cages' readers were locked into from the 1770s to stop book theft
Walk through Dublin Castle, where Stoker spent ten years as a civil servant before he ever wrote Dracula
Walk the Georgian streets around Merrion Square and Dublin Castle after dark, the city he grew up in
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