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The life and times of a walking pioneer and an explorer of the nearby
No one explored the valleys, rivers, cliffs, mountains and woods of South Dublin and Wicklow as tenaciously and as comprehensively as JB Malone, and no-one knew these places better. What he discovered on his mountain treks gave him so much joy and satisfaction that, wanting to share what he had found, he attracted many Dubliners into the hills through nearly 4,000 newspaper and magazine articles and four books. He pioneered Ireland’s network of way-marked walking routes through his development of the Wicklow Way and other routes, he was influential in the establishment of the Wicklow National Park, and through his many articles on the streets and buildings of Dublin he drew attention to the vulnerability of our urban landscape.
