Blogs from Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland, Europe - page 113

Ma dernière visite à Dublin a été la plus célèbre université de l'île: Trinity College. La cours est impressionnante mais les étudiants n'ont pas l'air de s'en rendre compte. Au fin fond de la cours, au détour de quelques bâtiments, on trouve le musée où est entreposé le "Book of Kells". Extrait de Wikipedia: "Le Livre de Kells (Book of Kells en anglais; Leabhar Cheanannais en irlandais), également connu sous le nom de Grand Évangéliaire de saint Colomba, est un manuscrit illustré de motifs ornementaux et réalisé par des moines celtiques vers l’an 800. Chef d'œuvre du christianisme irlandais et de l'art irlando-saxon, il constitue malgré son inachèvement l’un des plus somptueux manuscrits enluminés ayant pu survivre à l’époque du Moyen Âge. En raison de sa grande beauté et de l’excellence technique de sa finition, le ... read more

Nous avons eu le droit a une petite initiation a la dance traditionnelle Irlandaise. La prof etait juste la championne... Petite video pour vous mettre dans l'ambiance.... read more

Toujours le meme jour, dans les jardins de Powerscourt, nous avons trouve un des rares cimetieres de la region specialement pour les animaux. Chiens, chats, poneys et chevaux, et meme... une vache!... read more

We’d been banging on about going up to Dublin to visit our mate Trev for at least a year and thanks to Ryan Air’s 0.01p flights we finally got our butts into gear and booked. Getting there was easy, getting from the airport into town was easy - thanks to the super friendly bus drivers and automated voice over on the bus that tells you exactly where you are at each stop. Finding Trev, however, was a little more difficult. The poor guy waited out in the sleet for us for a good hour or so but we made up for it by piling into the nearest pub for our first Irish Guinness. We didn’t waste any time. We dumped our gear back at his place, grabbed a bite to eat and headed out into town ... read more

Travelled to Dublin while I was in Belfast. Caught the train at 7.00 in the morning it was freezing, 3 degrees! But by the time I got to Dublin was heaps warmer 7. But it wasn't raining and the sun was actually visible so I spent the day wandering around the city trying to see as much as I could. I went to Trinity College cos I have always wanted to see hte book of Kells and lucky Me on the day I went to view it they were renovating the exhibition so I only got to see colour copies of the book. Was a bit dissapointing but never mind. Saw the Trinity college library, it was incredible the most amazing library I have seen huge arched book cases lined each wal from the very top ... read more