We've been in Ireland more than two weeks now, and this is my first blog post about the place. We have been busy, especially nights in Dublin, but also elsewhere, and I've had a debilitating cold, now better enough to get out of bed. But I'm ready to start catching up. It may be a long process. We were here in May, 2009, car- and tent-camping while our RV was crossing the sea from New Brunswick to Bremerhaven. Blog posts from that time can be found on the blog archive or by searching "Dublin" or other relevant place names. We were in Dublin a week this time, including an administrative day or two, and I've decided it may be best to organize the posts by site-types, e.g., pubs, museums, literary sites, etc. We spent most of our time in pubs, with museums coming in second. The music in the museums is not so good. Also the beer.
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The Molly Malone statue; Dubliners are very big on statues;
well, I think it was a statue, not a mime; Dublin's answer to The
Little Mermaid |
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Your can learn quite a bit about Dublin and Irish history just
by reading the signs on buildings, especially in the Temple Bar
area |
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| Remains of Dublin Castle |
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| I heard a guide describe this as the Castle's Google annex |
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| Landmark, sort of, on the Castle green |
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Also on the green, a yoga master (a yogi? wait, no, that's a
baseball player) |
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His students; we were there to see the Chester Alan Beatty
Library..another post) |
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| The only Art Nouveau we saw in Dublin |
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| The Liffey |
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| Classic Guiness ads adorn many of the pubs |
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Dubliners are getting serious about dog poop
and irresponsible dog owners |
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It's the centenary of the 1916 Rising, and there are memorials
everywhere |
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| Parnell statue |
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| Another leader for independence |
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| The O'Connell statue |
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The Dublin Spire, aka The Erection at the
Intersection; nearly 400 feet high; replaced
the Nelson monument which the IRA had
blown up in 1966 |
