Ireland is the known for its storytelling and so we headed to the Brazen Head Pub last evening for dinner theatre entitled Food, Folk and Fairies! The food was from the farm and hearty, Irish stew, thick bread and pie for dessert, and the entertainment quintessentially Irish! This morning when I opened my email, I had a note from the storyteller, who included 3 of his favourite fairy tales. I’m excited to bring them home for my grandkids.
Today we took in Trinity College and the Book of Kells (containing the four gospels in high monastic art), visited the Chester Beatty Library where my eyes feasted on the earliest surviving manuscripts of the gospel writers and the Apostle Paul. For those who care, they were P44 & P45 Codex. The very resources I used in my exegesis paper last fall.
We shopped a bit, walked a lot, dined at a lovely Parisienne restaurant for lunch, strolled around Kilmainham gaol imaging what Ireland must have been like in its revolutionary days.
It will be an early start tomorrow to Kilkenny by car so we are off to bed.
Dublin Castle Herb Garden
Lunch stop
Trinity College
Kilmainham Gaol
Chester Beatty Library
Georgian Architecture and Window Boxes
