Day 3 - Dublin Castle, Trinity College, Book of Kells, Christ Chruch, graffiti

Today we went to Trinity College (link) to see the Book of Kells (learn more). Then we went to Dublin Castle (link), Christ Church (>link), and did a lot of wandering and walking.

Trinity College
This college campus is fun to walk around. It does, however, have many pigeons. I even saw one with only one foot limping around (when it wasn't flying).

Book of Kells
The Book of Kells is a very famous book which contains transcriptions of the four Gospels. It was made on vellum, illustrated and ornamented, and survives from 800 A.D. I have no pictures as they do not allow you to take a camera in. I wanted to argue that since they are charging me €8, I should be allowed.

Dublin Castle (photos of Dublin Castle)
Definitely the highlight of the day, I took many pictures at Dublin Castle - they allow you to on the tour in every room except for one.





Me standing by an arch in the castle courtyard.










Courtyard as viewed from within the castle.







A tapestry in the "battle axe" room.
They call it the battle axe room because the royal guardians would stand watch with huge battle axes. Unfortunately, there are no longer battle axe wielding guards, or I would have pictures of them also.






Christ Church
I also took pictures of the outside of Christ Church (wikipedia) (official site), but we did not pay for the tour so I have no pictures of the inside.

Graffiti (Many more photos of Irish graffiti)
After we finished the official tours, we went for a graffiti tour and I took many pictures of graffiti, which are pictured here.




Do I have a trouble reading this because of the Irish Tagger Font, or because it's written in Gaelic, or because they're using acronyms or names I don't recognize?



There's lot of graffiti in Ireland.








I took this picture from across the street to get the graffiti. It wasn't until we were back at the hotel room modifying the image that I saw the name of the shop, and decided to leave it there.


We saw this guy drawing with chalk - he made a beautiful
rendition of a picture he was copying from. You can't rightfully
call this graffiti - this was truly an art.

He worked fairly quickly - I could see it coming together before
my eyes. Much skill! I wonder how long it lasts when he's done.

[Pictures of Dublin Castle] [Pictures of Christ Church] [Pictures of Graffiti] [All Ireland photos]