Tag: Ireland
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☘️St. Patrick’s Cathedral – Ireland🍀
My daughters and I had the joy and privilege of touring St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland last August. While I didn’t share these photos last summer, it seemed very appropriate to share them today! We feel especially blessed to have seen it, as the cathedral is closed in Ireland…
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🍺The Making of a Barrel🍺
This is the final post about our trip and this series ends with a must-visit-while-in-Dublin: The Guinness Storehouse. I never gave much thought to beer, the making of it and certainly never specific brands and how/when/where they were created. This tour was unexpectedly fascinating and the history of this company…
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The Long Room in Dublin, Ireland
As part of the Trinity College expedition in Dublin, we walked through the highly impressive Long Room. While I thoroughly enjoyed the first edition books that I told you about at the castle (HERE), this was a vast college and beyond what I could have imagined as a book lover.…
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The Book of Kells🇮🇪
Moving on to Ireland, one of our first stops was to visit The Book of Kells at Trinity College in Dublin. We learned that this book contains the four gospels, created by monks in the 9th century. Historians appear to struggle with where exactly it was created but believe locations…
Tales from a Mid-Lifer 