August 4, 2019 – Kilmainham Gaol and Howth

Our only Sunday spent in Ireland is interesting, as we will tour the Kilmainham Gaol, which was once used as a prison for Irish rebels during the British colonization of Ireland.  We will then do a bus tour across the City of Dublin in which we will examine monuments and site from the history of the City of Dublin.  Several of you also have your own individual plans to meet up with friends and relatives of your’s who live in Dublin/Ireland.  In a short blog post, tell us how you spent your only Sunday in Ireland. I spent my Sunday in Dublin with the rest of the group.  We visited the Kilmainham Gaol, which was packed with history.  The prison had held multiple political prisoners from the 1916 rebels and some of them were executed in the prison itself.  We saw the location where prisoners put together an escape plan and pulled it off.  Next, we needed to find food.  We resorted to stopping by a Spar, a local convenience store.  My lunch consisted of slices of salami and a Starbar.  At that point, we hopped on a bus to the fishing village of Howth, where we scaled a mountain and took in amazing views.  Dinner was fish and chips from a local restaurant.  The entire day we got to know Brad Miner, the trip’s planner.

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