Day 7, Friday, Dublin

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We stayed on the southwest side of Dublin, and took the railway in to the center of the city. Out first stop was Trinity College, to see the Book of Kells. The Book of Kells contains the four Gospels in Latin . It was written in the 800’s at a monastery at Kells, County Meath

This is one of pages that we seen a portrait of John the Evangelist.

Trinity College Library

The Long Room it has over 200,000 books

Dublin Castle

The present chapel was designed by Francis Johnston and was opened, as the Anglican chapel of the Viceroy, on Christmas Day 1814

Inside the round tower

State apartments

Christ Church Cathedral

It was built in the 1180’s and added to through the 13th century

Guinness Storehouse

We ate here after a long day of sightseeing