Itrland Sunday-Monday 2008

Our trip guide, Kristianne, led our 18 member group on a city tour of Dublin where we saw a plethora of Georgian homes, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, the statue of Molly Malone, Trinity College in the middle of the town with its huge library and the Book of Kells written on vellum by Monks in 800 A.D.
During the trip from Dublin to Kildare, Kristianne gave us a brief history lesson covering the English invasion, establishment of penal laws and the potato famine that killed 4 1/2 million people and was a major cause of emigration to the U.S.