Our tour started yesterday with dinner but today was the real thing. We did a city walking tour with Connor, our tour guide. We walked past many places we already visited but got to hear stories and saw other stuff from a locals perspective. Connor would bow and wave at every Guinness delivery truck driver. 😆
There are two big church very close together, St. Patrick's and Christ Church (older). When the churches were built (a long time ago), one was inside the city and the other outside. Then the distillers got involved...my church is nicer than your church. But thank heavens for beer (Arthur Guinness) and whiskey (George Roe) and their personal competition, otherwise the churches may have been razed.
We visited the Temple Bar area, name after Trinity College provost Sir Wm Temple. Now it's very touristy. It was a fun and interesting tour.
Break for lunch. We ate in a different park because the seagulls were way too aggressive, we went to Merrion Square and visited with Oscar Wilde.
Next was a visit to EPIC, an emigration museum and the Jeanie Johnston replica ship which helped +2,000 people emigrate during the potato famine without any deaths. This was a big deal because most of the emigration ships were called coffin ships because usually 1/3 of the people died enroute.
In case you can't tell, the famine was a big deal!!! The Famine, called Gorta Mor, the Great Hunger, was 1845 to 1852, the worst of it was 1847. During this period a million people died and another million to a million and a half emigrated, 20-25% of the population. We've heard it stated that Ireland has not yet regained that population or that it's just now regained it's population. Either way it was terrible.
same picture link as yesterday
https://www.flickr.com/gp/8663407@N07/nn1c85jLPp
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