Dublin

We ended our tour around Ireland with a day in Dublin. First, all of us walked over to Trinity College, just a few blocks from our hotel on Stephen's Green, to see the Book of Kells. When Sandy and I saw it last time in 1990, the library just had the book itself open to a page which changed every day. Now there is a whole exhibit, with a lot of enlargements of images and a lot of background. Very nice but also now a major exhibit that has an admission charge. Here is an image from the book.

After that, we all went to the national archaeological museum to see exhibits on Celtic and Viking Ireland. Full of amazing stuff stuff like the Tara Brooch, made around 700 AD, shown here. Celtic Irish design from that early Christian era is still delightful to the eye and impressive in craftsmanship today.

After lunch in the museum and a quick trip the the national art museum, we split up. Sandy, Chris and I wanted to race around town and the others wanted to take it a bit easier, after two long weeks of touring and walking around.

We walked to the River Liffey, which you can see here.
We walked around to see statues like the one of Molly Malone and crossed the Halfpenny Bridge, shown here.