Trip to Dublin :)

Yesterday on our trip to Dublin, we went to the National Museum of Ireland, the WB Yeats Museum in the National Library and the National Art Gallery. First of all we went to the National Museum where we had a tour of the Mesolithic & Neolithic periods, and the Bronze and Iron ages. We also went to a section of the museum that displayed a number of 'Bog Bodies'. These were bodies that were preserved in the bogs hundereds of years ago and are still perfectly preserved with fingernails and hair, they were quite strange to look at :L We then went to the WB Yeats museum because we have studied some of WB Yeats' poems in English. This was interesting as we found out lots about his life and his love for Maud Gonne. We saw loads of his original poems and his handwritten journals. For lunch we were all allowed to go off into town to get lunch and relax, most of us went toget lunch in Mcdonalds and then we went to relax in St.Stephen's Green, it was a really nice day out so this was lovely :) After lunch we went to the final museum of the day, the National Gallery. We had a tour guide that showed us around all kinds of paintings by Irish Artists, we also went to a JB Yeats art exhibition. JB Yeats is WB Yeats' brother who was a very talented artist. It was a good day in all and is probably one of the last days out we will have in Ty 2010/2011 :( Ciara Xxx