A forever visual I have of Dublin is of its streets lined with rows upon rows of Georgian houses…  Someone like me, who needs a GPS to get out of a parking garage, might have a hard time locating her own house here. Perhaps the brightly painted doors can provide some assistance:  Of all these wonderful doors, there’s …
I’d Try To Escape!
 Kilmainham Gaol was infamous for the execution of many Easter Rising rebellion leaders back in the early 1900s, and it’s now famous as a movie set for films such as In the Name of the Father and Michael Collins.  From the outside it is an unassuming yet austere building,  and across the street is a row of swanky new …
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I Finally Find My Leprechaun
 Near my hotel at St. Stephen’s Green park:  there is a sculpture entitled Famine by Edward Delaney:  It is one of a score of statues you can find throughout the city to memorialize the Great Famine (An Gorta Mór) that took place between 1845-1852, brought on by potato blight and resulted in some million lives lost from …
Can Life Get Any Better!
 If I could live in a museum I would. Yesterday I mentioned we’d visit the interiors of Dublin Castle so let’s begin with the Chester Beatty Library, which was once an army ordinance office on these grounds:  The most striking thing about Dublin Castle is what a hodge-podge of architectural styles it is. But that is a testament …
We’ve Come A Long Way From The Early 1200s
 Before I left on this trip I watched a few episodes of Bite Me With Dr. Mike on the Travel Channel. It made me want to burn my passport, yet here I am. And before I sat down to write today’s entry I read an email from my mom. She’d forwarded me an article in Vietnamese about some deadly …
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