IRELAND Day 1

We just returned from our trip to Ireland with my sister, husband and kids.  On our first day, we spent the day in Dublin walking around and seeing many interesting sights.  The weather was better than expected for Ireland this time of year.

 

Our trip plan:

 

We visited Trinity College in Dublin and visited the Book of Kells.  I was thinking we would see a number of Kelly's from Ireland, but was interested to learn it had other meanings.  More info below. 

The Book of Kells (Trinity College Dublin MS 58) is celebrated for its lavish decoration. The manuscript contains the four Gospels in Latin based on a Vulgate text, written on vellum (prepared calfskin), in a bold and expert version of the script known as "insular majuscule".  The place of origin of the Book of Kells is generally attributed to the scriptorium of the monastery founded around 561 by St Colum Cille on Iona, an island off the west coast of Scotland. In 806, following a Viking raid on the island which left 68 of the community dead, the Columban monks took refuge in a new monastery at Kells, County Meath. It must have been close to the year 800 that the Book of Kells was written, although there is no way of knowing if the book was produced wholly at Iona or at Kells, or partially at each location.  It has been on display in the Old Library at Trinity College Dublin from the mid 19th century, and attracts over 500,000 visitors a year. Since 1953 it has been bound in four volumes. Two volumes are on public view, one opened to display a major decorated page, and one to show two pages of script. The volumes are changed at regular intervals.

Trinity College Dublin

The library at Trinity College

There was a DAWSON STREET in Dublin that had a number of Dawson Stores. 

There was even a store for our CoCo

Some more pics from around Dublin.

Some sights and sounds of Dublin