{"id":78,"date":"2018-12-15T17:09:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T22:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/budapest-hungary-fall-2018\/?p=78"},"modified":"2018-12-15T17:09:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T22:09:15","slug":"a-weekend-in-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/budapest-hungary-fall-2018\/2018\/12\/15\/a-weekend-in-ireland\/","title":{"rendered":"A weekend in Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple weekends ago I went to Dublin, I want to share the top three highlights of my weekend.<\/p>\n

Trinity College<\/h2>\n

The tour of the exterior\u00a0of the campus was guided,\u00a0 our tour was very hurried due to the torrential downpour and not that interesting.\u00a0 The most interesting thing to note is that the school didn’t pay for the design<\/p>\n

s of any of the buildings shows in the picture below.\u00a0 One was unpaid after a design competition and the other the school just decided not to send the architect a check because he refused to come to collect payment in person.\u00a0 On top of that, the buildings on the left and right are exact duplicates.<\/p>\n

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Inside the campus of Trinity College Dublin (Wikipedia)<\/p><\/div>\n

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The inside of the library was much more beautiful and fascinating.\u00a0 Inside the library is the beautiful room pictured below, called the Long Room.\u00a0 This is in the Old Library and is no longer in use, it was built in the 1700’s.\u00a0 It includes many treasures such as 14 busts of famous authors, a copy of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic (their Declaration of Independence) and the oldest hard in Ireland (from the 15th century).<\/p>\n

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The Long Room Trinity College (Wikipedia)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Last but not least the thing that Trinity College is most famous for, The Book of Kells.\u00a0 The Book of Kells is a 1200 year old\u00a0heavily decorated manuscript containing the four Gospels of the New Testament.\u00a0 The book is there on display are some pages of it as well as some pages of other smaller and less ornate manuscripts from that era.\u00a0 It’s part of a big exhibit breaking down major parts of the book as well as how and where it was created.\u00a0 The guided tour plus entry to this exhibit and the Long Room were all part of a ticket that was under $20 USD.<\/p>\n

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Page in the Book of Kells (Wikipedia)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Jameson distillery tour<\/h1>\n

I did a couple of alcohol distillery tours.\u00a0 This one was by far the best.\u00a0 The tour takes about an hour in total.\u00a0 It consists of a short film documenting the history of Jameson company and how they got to where they are today then it continues with an interactive explanation of how whiskey is made and it finishes with a comparative tasting in which you taste Jameson and it’s foreign competitors (Scotch whiskey and American whiskey).\u00a0 The ticket also includes one free drink at the bar upon the conclusion of the tour.\u00a0 Between this tour, the Guiness\u00a0tour and the Irish Whiskey Museum tour (all of which I did), the Jameson tour was by far the most polished and informative experience.<\/p>\n

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Cliffs of Moher day trip<\/h2>\n

This was my favorite thing I did in Ireland and probably my favorite thing I have done the whole semester.\u00a0 We took a full day bus trip (6am to 7pm).\u00a0 First, we drove from Dublin to the Cliffs of Moher (4-6 hours) which was absolutely the most beautiful thing I saw this semester.\u00a0 Two of my favorite pictures are below but you can see a few more including higher-res versions of these two here<\/a>.\u00a0 After the cliffs, we took a two hour drive to Galway a charming town in West of Ireland (It was raining so I didn’t get any good pictures) but it’s definitely worth a short visit.\u00a0 After that was a four hour drive back to Dublin.\u00a0 The bus ride was beautiful and everywhere we stopped was beautiful.\u00a0 The whole day trip cost under $50 USD and was easily the best and most beautiful thing I’ve done this semester.<\/p>\n

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