Thursday, April 11 (Conor)

Today we started the day off immediately on foot to the famine sculptures which displayed exactly what it sounds like, people  who were hungry because of the famine. Now at this point we didn’t know much about these things but we did learn more throughout the day. Nearby was the EPIC Museum where we learned about Irish immigration and then the Jeanie Johnston ship where not one passenger ever died on its trips to America. After some quick shopping on grafton street we ate lunch at the Boxty house and thanks to Mr. Brooks and Mr. McAllister for buying us sodas. The food was great and then we went to my favorite exhibit so far, the book of Kells

. I did sneak a picture of it although the man who walked in was not happy. But a summary of it is that it’s the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John written in Latin. It included many markings in a Celtic font being written by Celtic monks in the medieval ages. Now we lastly ate dinner and headed off to a play starting at 7:30. The play was about a hospital ran by a catholic order during the influenza pandemic. There is death, birth, and love all seen in the play put on by an all-women cast. Overall today was a good day, not too much walking and some interesting activities.