Dublin

liffey
Dublin was founded by Vikings who sailed up the River Liffey in the 10th Century AD
kells
We went to Trinity College and saw the Book of Kells

 

harp
And the oldest harp in Ireland

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

selfie
We took a Selfie at St. Stephen’s Green, a site of one of the events of the 1916 Easter Rebellion.
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We went to the Archeological Museum. This is the floor, which is all mosaic
god-xopy
And this is God, according to some Medieval artist
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This is just some random building
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This is not graffiti, these nonsense poems, by Edward Lear it turns out, are all over the toilet area in a very nice restaurant we ate at. Lear was English, but the poem seems characteristically Irish to me. They call them “Toilets”, not bathrooms.