Yesterday I got an email reminding me of the walking tour of Dublin I had paid for. I had forgotten!
They make it so easy to sign up!
Donal gave us a historical tour of Dublin in two hours. He was entertaining! And spoke loudly, important in sidewalk tours with traffic noise. His area of specialty is the 1916 Easter Uprising.
Christ Church
Dublin Castle, the seat of British power for 700 years, today used by the Irish government for state events. We didn't go inside.
Temple Bar, mural for characters in Ulysses (James Joyce, of course--one of the 24 bridges over the Liffey is named for him)
Where the tour started, near Trinity College, now the Bank of Ireland but formerly the Irish Parliament. Complicated story of why the Irish politicians voluntarily closed it down after the French revolution. Our Tom Paine had a lot to do with it and his book, Common Sense, which every (Irish?) soldier read at the time. Have you read it? 📚
The National Library of Ireland (I went on my own after the tour) was closed but they had this amazing LEGO model of how they want their new library to look!
They also had an exhibit about W.B. Yeats which I had to rush through.
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