It might have been the tastiest lesson, but learning the correct way to drink Guinness wasn’t the only memorable activity travel writer Susan Glaser crammed into 48 hours in Dublin.
I wandered the cobblestone streets of Temple Bar and strolled through lovely St. Stephen’s Green, pondered the purchase of a gorgeous wool sweater on Grafton Street and consumed an entire day’s worth of calories with a full Irish breakfast.
That’s not what I did. My two days in Dublin were the start to a nine-day trip around the island, which included four days along the west coast and two days in Northern Island. The flight landed at just before 9 a.m., I was out of the airport before 10 and was dropping off my luggage at my city center hotel by 10:30 a.m.
Catholic students were famously excluded from Trinity for centuries. Even after they were allowed to attend, Catholics were banned by their own church from attending. “They said you’d be brainwashed if you went there,” said Fitzgerald. We stopped for several minutes outside the grand General Post Office, built in 1814, still riddled with bullet holes from the 1916 Easter Rising, the rebellion that ultimately led to Irish independence.
Fourteen leaders of the Easter rebellion were executed here, including Pearse, all by firing squad. “The prisoners were brought into the yard, blindfolded, their hands behind their back, a white target pinned over their heart,” said O’Connor.
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