Listen
Donal Fallon is a historian from Dublin.
His Three Castles Burning podcast is a social history podcast that tells many of the forgotten stories of Dublin.
Click the link here to listen to an episode about Dublin Zoo: https://threecastlesburning.libsyn.com/the-zoological-gardens
Think
Having listened to the podcast, think about the questions below.
You might like to write down the answers.
1. The historian Donal Fallon has to research this story before recording the podcast. Can you name at least one of the sources of information he refers to in the podcast?
2. What year did Dublin Zoo open?
3. Name 2 interesting facts about the lions in Dublin Zoo.
Write
The picture attached here was taken at Dublin Zoo in 1963.
Have you any memories of the zoo?
Write a few sentences about them.
Visit
You can click on the picture or the link below to visit the elephants in Dublin Zoo:
