Category Archives: Ireland

Ireland 2019: Dublin’s Merrion Square

The four Georges from the German House of Hanover ruled Great Britain and Ireland from 1714 to 1830 and this period as well as the popular architectural style of the time has become known as Georgian. Early in the 18th … Continue reading

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Ireland 2019: Dublin’s EPIC Museum

On the fifth of July last year we woke up to a rainy Friday morning in Dublin and thought what would be a better day than to visit the magnificent museum next door to our hotel: EPIC the Irish Emigration … Continue reading

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Ireland 2019: Dublin’s Grafton Street

So we said our goodbyes to Trinity College, the Book of Kells and the Buttery restaurant and headed for our next adventure: a walk down Grafton Street to St Stephen’s Green. We had to make a slight detour, however, before … Continue reading

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Ireland 2019: The Book of Kells

St Columcille was a prominent Irishman of the 6th century who founded 27 monasteries all over Ireland including one at Kells in what is now County Meath. In 563 Columcille and 12 of his followers traveled to the tiny island … Continue reading

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Ireland 2019: Trinity College Dublin

On the Fourth of July last year, the day after our bus tour to Glendalough and Powerscourt, we decided to spend the day south of the River Liffey. Our plan was to tour the campus of Trinity College and then … Continue reading

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Ireland 2019: Powerscourt Gardens

The Powerscourt Estate and Gardens can be found near the town of Enniskerry in County Wicklow, about a half hour south of Dublin. We visited the Gardens on our way back to Dublin from touring Glendalough earlier in the day. … Continue reading

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Ireland 2019: Glendalough

A day after our Dublin sightseeing adventures we boarded another bus for an all-day tour of two sites in County Wicklow south of Dublin.  Our first stop that day was at the monastic settlement of Glendalough deep in the heart … Continue reading

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Ireland 2019: Dublin’s Guinness Storehouse

We had two hop-offs on our sightseeing bus tour of Dublin. The girls got off just past Dublin Castle to visit Dublin’s two great cathedrals, Christ Church and St Patrick’s. And the boys hopped off a few minutes later to … Continue reading

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Ireland 2019: Our Dublin Sightseeing Tour, Part Two

As mentioned at the end of my last post, my wife, two daughters and three granddaughters hopped off the bus to visit the two cathedrals of Christ Church and St Patrick’s while my two sons-in-law, my grandson and I stayed … Continue reading

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Ireland 2019: Our Dublin Sightseeing Bus Tour, Part One

Dublin, like most of the big cities around the world that we have visited,  offers a variety of sightseeing options. We chose the City Sightseeing Dublin Company because they had double-decker buses of the hop on/ off variety, they stopped … Continue reading

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