Today we explored Dublin (after spending some time renting a car to explore the country side for our last 2 days in Ireland) and explored Trinity College, City Hall, the Spire St, Stephens Green (really lovely) and we just happened past Mary McCauley’s House. Mary McCauley started the Sisters of Mercy in the 1820’s. The cloister was dedicated to supporting the sick, and poor of Dublin. The Order spread over the rest of Ireland, England and other sites around the world. We ended up doing a tour and it was really interesting learning about Irish life in the 1800s, the Cholera plague and the famine caused by the potato blight. The famine resulted in the death of one million people and for one million to emigrate. There was some interesting artwork by the nuns and works to parallel the Book of Kells. A nice way to spend several hours. We had dinner in an Irish pub and another early night (Robert has the flu) because its cold and wet in Dublin. Off to the countryside tomorrow. I like Dublin, different to Belfast but interesting and colourful. Listening to Gaelic spoken by the locals was quite different, all of the street signs are in Gaelic and English. There are many more immigrants from Eastern Europe in Dublin because it’s part of the Economic Union.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Dublin
Today we explored Dublin (after spending some time renting a car to explore the country side for our last 2 days in Ireland) and explored Trinity College, City Hall, the Spire St, Stephens Green (really lovely) and we just happened past Mary McCauley’s House. Mary McCauley started the Sisters of Mercy in the 1820’s. The cloister was dedicated to supporting the sick, and poor of Dublin. The Order spread over the rest of Ireland, England and other sites around the world. We ended up doing a tour and it was really interesting learning about Irish life in the 1800s, the Cholera plague and the famine caused by the potato blight. The famine resulted in the death of one million people and for one million to emigrate. There was some interesting artwork by the nuns and works to parallel the Book of Kells. A nice way to spend several hours. We had dinner in an Irish pub and another early night (Robert has the flu) because its cold and wet in Dublin. Off to the countryside tomorrow. I like Dublin, different to Belfast but interesting and colourful. Listening to Gaelic spoken by the locals was quite different, all of the street signs are in Gaelic and English. There are many more immigrants from Eastern Europe in Dublin because it’s part of the Economic Union.
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I would love to go to Ireland and look forward to seeing the pictures of the countryside. Am interested to know how it is driving overseas.
ReplyDeleteWow, what a trip!
ReplyDeleteI just had the chance now to look at this and read some of the blog posts. It sounds like you having soooooooooooooooooo much fun. Some of the pics you have they look like they are from South America and not Europe.
What a world, just earlier this evening the Ireland potatos story came to my mind and was trying to remember how and what happened that led to the death of a large number of the population. After I couldn't remember what happened exactly I went and boiled some potatos to make a mash :-)
I can't wait to see Europe (hope very soon)
Batol