On Monday morning, we got up and had breakfast at the cafe across the street where we had our first lunch It was delicious- particularly the brown bread which I will for sure miss. From there, we took a taxi over to the Kilmainham Gaol (pronounced Jail) and museum. These tickets were hard to get, we had to get them 28 days in advance at midnight Dublin time. A bunch of people along the way, including our concierge, taxi driver and the tour guide commended us on our success The Gaol was a really interesting tour. It was the site of a lot of important events in the Easter Rebellion of 1916. In the 1950’s, men and women who had lived in the Gaol during the uprising and civil war, campaigned to restore the Gaol and a lot of then did the restoration work themselves. Some of the cells have names above the door where there were significant prisoners held there. After the tour, we were allowed to walk through the museum which has a lot of artifacts and history from when it was used.
After the Gaol, we took another taxi to the CHQ building where the EPIC museum is. This area is just across the river from Trinity College and seems to be recently revived. We got lunch at a cafe in the small shopping mall that was part of the building. The museum uses the old warehouse vaults as rooms and the ground floor is restaurants/cafes. The museum was really interesting. It is new and we found out privately owned. It’s really an homage to the Irish experience, and Irish emigrants. They give you a paper passport to stamp at each room and it was very interactive. After the museum, we walked through the Merion Square neighborhood and then ran around our neighborhood to do some last minute shopping before having dinner at the Boxty house. Boxty’s are these potato pancake things that sort of have a potato kugel consistency. The food was REALLY good and a great way to end the trip. Heading to the airport soon. We had a great time.
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