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| Me inside one of the jail cells. |
So, today was our last day in Ireland and we decided to cram
it full of activities. So, we started early this morning and didn’t stop until
it was time to leave for the airport. We started the day off with a taxi ride
to the jail in Dublin, Kilmainham Gaol. We took a tour there. It was pretty
cool. Lots of interesting and sad stories about the Irish revolutionaries. It
was really weird to go into the cells. They were pretty small. There was a
female prisoner (a wife and sister of two other prisoners) who was put in jail
after both her husband and brother were executed and she painted the Madonna
and Child on the inside of her cell. It was really cool.
After the jail tour, we walked 12 blocks to St. Patrick’s
Cathedral. The walk was so long. By the time we got to the cathedral I thought I
was going to die. We all had our backpacks with all of our clothes and stuff
with us because we had nowhere else to put it. My backpack was so heavy! St.
Patrick’s was really pretty. Jonathan Swift (author of Gulliver’s Travels) had been a Dean there, which I thought was
cool. They had a plaster cast of his skull too. It was a pretty cathedral.
