Main Gate of Trinity College
Walking on to the college...
The amazing green and arch stay off the grass here!
I went on saturday and go there nearly 30 min before opening at 9:30am I got in line around 9:15 and this was the line!
The library was amazing! No pictures in the actual room with the Book of Kells but the Library was allowed for photos.
Me out ide the gates waiting for Jessie to come so we could do stuff together!
Next Jessie met me and we went for tea and scones! The Queen of Tarts is so good. I got a chocolate scone and some yummy tea with cream and brown sugar!
Me outside with what would become a useless umbrella! The rain was gone by the time Jessie got to me.
So off to Dublin Castle! Actually it was across the street from this place.
Inside the courtyard
indside
Beautiful tapestries
Detail... they were in such good condition!
The wonderful archways
Throne...
The only original tower left and attached to it is the chapel.
Chapel entrance
Amazing inside of chapel
pretty stained glass
just amazing insides!
The best part of the Dublin Castle was getting to go underground to see the excavation of one of the towers and the remaining walls to the city and castle.
Powder Tower
This would have been a back entrance on the mote where goods would have been moved into the castle
part of the walls left over
After the Castle we walked around and found an amazing exhibit of Chihuly blown glass made for Dublin using James Joyce Characters..
This is not by Chihuly but by his friend and is a watercolor... they had several and all were so well done.
Next to the Castle and across the courtyard from this was the Chester Beatty Library. No pictures were allowed of the work but we did get some of the building and of Beatty himself...
This last pictures was of the back of Dublin Castle and from the top of the Beatty Library. It just made for such a good view.
Come back for parts 2 and 3 soon!
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