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Today we spent the entire day exploring Ireland. There was so much to see, but luckily the city is fairly compact so it made walking to our various destinations quite easy. We started out at Trinity College and ended up having a pint in the Temple Bar area. Perhaps the most interesting thing about our short visit to Dublin was seeing all of the …
Dead centre of Dublin
... One of the skeletons, reputed to be one of the crusaders they allow you to touch for luck. I decline, but Paul goes ahead and touches the hand...eeeugh, hope he washes them really soon. The tour guide is a very strange little man who tries very hard to be funny and falls quite a bit short, maybe it's just that his patter is tired. I feel like we have invaded the dead and it's not very respectful. Poor buggers are meant to be resting in peace. Outside it is ...
Day 27
... at Dublin Castle who was very good and talked about the history of the place, built by the English as the seat of the Vice-Roy (Like the Governor General) He went over all the stauff that had happened there, obviously the Castle was seen a sign of oppression by he Irish. Anyway he was very careful to be politically correct. After the tour was finished I went and asked him a question about one of the Vice-Roys. He asked where I was from ...
More exciting research contacts
This morning I walked to an interview with Tony Bates, the psychologist who founded Headstrong Ireland, the administrative agency for Jigsaw which provides mental health services to youth. He was an interesting man to listen to - very devoted to the recovery model for youth, and very sold on community development and community involvement in adolescent mental health services. Now I have 2 additional places to visit - the Jigsaw agency in Galway which is ...
You can't get bored in Dublin
... including lots of Irish were dancing on that traditional music. We went to another pub an afternoon as it was raining and we were waiting for the coach going to Galway, and there was also a guy playing music. It was interesting because on the middle of the afternoon, we clearly noticed that the majority of people were foreigners and when it was around 5/6 pm, we realized that the population changed as lots of Irish were coming to the ...