For our last day in Dublin, the group headed to the National History Museum and the National Library. The main attractions at the Museum were the bog people--human remains found preserved in bogs and the subjects of several of Nobel-winning poet Seamus Heaney's poems--and the artifacts from Ireland pre-Christian history. I found a lot of Celtic symbols in the artifacts, including a stone carving of a sheela-na-gig, an Irish fertility goddess of sorts. Definitely a good destination. Then we headed to the Library to see a Yeats exhibit, which had a lot of original manuscripts and connections with other writers of the time. I'm glad I've taken a couple of Irish lit classes to have a lot of background in the places and things we've seen this week.
We had the afternoon free, so I finally got to search for the Oscar Wilde statue in Hyde Park. I found it, along with the Street Performance World Championship. This town is awesome. And since it was our last night in Dublin, Liz and I went to see Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia" at the Gate Theater. It was a great show, though pretty complex. Our heads hurt by the end. Anyway, we'll be heading off to Galway tomorrow to get settled with our host families, and then spending the weekend in the Aran Islands. Dublin has been a blast, but I'm ready to see more of Ireland. Toodles!
We had the afternoon free, so I finally got to search for the Oscar Wilde statue in Hyde Park. I found it, along with the Street Performance World Championship. This town is awesome. And since it was our last night in Dublin, Liz and I went to see Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia" at the Gate Theater. It was a great show, though pretty complex. Our heads hurt by the end. Anyway, we'll be heading off to Galway tomorrow to get settled with our host families, and then spending the weekend in the Aran Islands. Dublin has been a blast, but I'm ready to see more of Ireland. Toodles!
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