DAY TWO: DUBLIN -- Orientation

Guinness Brewery Museum (morning)
Coach Tour of the City, Trinity College, Phoenix Park (morning)
Seminar: Discussion of Prehistoric, early Christian & Medieval Ireland (3:00 pm-6:00 pm)
Read Irish Experience Chap. 1 & 2, excerpt on Cuchalain
Study Time (evening)
Celebrating Nicole's 22nd Birthday

 

an unknown building, possibly Guinness Factory the Liffey River Guinness lease Wall of various Guinness drinks
Waterfall that powers the Guinness plant Arthur Guinness' desk wall of kegs Guinness Factory floor
equation to make Guinness note we left at the Guinness Factory the view from the "pint glass" top of the Guinness Factory more of Dublin
our teacher's husband and our tour guide, looking out at another view of Dublin a typical Dublin door Trinity College Trinity College
Trinity College Trinity College Trinity College site where the Pope gave Mass at Phoenix Park
fallow deer the US Ambassador's house no more football until further notice American made motorcycles only
Bad Ass Cafe celebrating Nicole's birthday TJ and I  

 


  • I don't remember what this is, but I think it's another view of Heuston Station
  • Another view of the Liffey River, looking towards City Centre (An Lar)
  • Arthur Guinness received a 9000 year lease, paying 49 £/year to run his famous brewery
  • Can you guess how many different ways you could get Guinness?
  • The Power of Water. Water is an important element in making Guinness. Contrary to popular belief, the Liffey is not used in making Guinness. Water is so important that it's even said that whiskey gets its name from the Gaelic word for water, ishka.
  • The desk of Arthur Guinness
  • Wooden Kegs of Guinness
  • Another view of the factory floor
  • How to Make Guinness...can you pass the test?
  • Signing in at the Guinness Museum...when Bill Clinton toured, his staff left a note. We found it but I didn't think to take a picture of it. And yes, Guinness is spelled wrong in this sign.
  • View from the top of the Museum. The museum is shaped like a Guinness pint, although you don't notice it until you go up a few floors. At the top you receive a complimentary pint.
  • Another view of Dublin from the top of the Guinness Museum
  • Sebastian, our teacher's husband, and Síla, our tour guide for the day.
  • Dublin Doors...back a long time ago, people didn't have house numbers on their doors; people painted and decorated their doors in order to differentiate whose house was whose.
  • Trinity College...Queen Elizabeth I built Trinity to educate the Protestant ascendancy.
  • Another view of Trinity. The campus was closed for the winter holidays, which is, technically, the time between Christmas and New Year's, so we could not get in to see the Book of Kells.
  • Notice the columns on the building; it's definitely not a Celtic influence that is felt at Trinity. I think this is the student dining hall.
  • The last side of the Trinity College quad
  • I think these are the student dormitories.
  • At Phoenix Park, the site where Pope John Paul II gave Mass. Phoenix Park is Europe's largest zoo type of park, with over 1000 acres (I really cannot remember how many acres), but it's more than just a park. The American ambassador and the Irish President both live in Phoenix Park.
  • Fallow deer...unlike America, the deer here have the right of way at all times and are protected by law.
  • The American ambassador lives here.
  • What did I tell you about the snow? Even the football (American soccer) field is shut down.
  • Temple Bar...this picture stands alone for the American influence in Ireland
  • The Bad Ass Cafe...we didn't go inside, but we all were like, "COOOOOL!"
  • Celebrating Nicole's birthday...we met some Dublin guys and had a blast in this lil club. We'd been walking around, looking for some traditional music and heard some nice dance techno blasting from a doorway, so we went in. It was some place tucked away in an alleyway near the Irish Music Centre. Needless to say, we could never find this place again. Here I had my first alcoholic drink, an Amaretto (which I got hung over from lol). Pictured here is Amy and Nicole, with Mario beckoning Laurel to dance (he was her Dublin boy).
  • The nicest Dublin guy, TJ. He asked me to dance but I declined, since I had a boyfriend, which was cool with him, since we got to talking. Unfortunately, we had to leave right after meeting our group of guys, b/c we'd heard that the buses stop running at 11:30. Unlucky for us, this wasn't true, it was at 11 that they stopped running. Ahhh, feet...we sure walked a lot in Dublin.
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