St Patrick's Day - KEY

Here is the key to the challenge posted for last Sunday, 17th March, St Patrick's Day.
Thanks to all for your fantastic contributions :=)

St. Patrick's Day

Source: wikipedia
SHAMROCK

St Patrick's Day is a religious and cultural holiday celebrated today, 17th March, and it's named after Saint Patrick, Ireland's patron Saint. This is a widely celebrated date with church services as well as public parades and festivals.

»» According to legend, St Patrick used the 3-leaved shamrock to explain
the Holy Trinity

Below there is a video as well as an Infographic on St Patrick's Day. After watching it and giving some thought to the infographic, please take a couple of minutes for the quiz that follows.

Now, please take the quiz! Thanks!!!

Travel Diary IRELAND - Day 2

Jonathan Swift's Bust (WIKIPEDIA)

After a great breakfast, our planned visits in Dublin started: first Phoenix Park with its tall obelisk of 63 meters erected by Lord Chesterfield in 1747 to commemorate the victories of Duke of Wellington; then, all agreed to move on to IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art) which, besides the permanent collection, is now hosting a temporary exhibition on Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera - at least for myself, it was really a much better choice than visiting Guinness Storehouse, the largest brewer of stout in the world - next time for sure!!!

We had lunch in a traditional Irish pub in the heart of Temple Bar called Gallagher's Boxty House. For most of us, our meal consisted of 3 course menu: Soup of the Day, Pork and Apple Sausages with Mash and Gravy and, for dessert, Bread and Butter Pudding served wit Custard. Hummm! Tasty!!

After that relaxing time and tasty meal, we headed to St Patrick's Cathedral, founded in 1191 and headed by a Dean, an office which has existed since 1219, the most famous holder being Jonathan Swift ; St Patrick's has one of the largest Organs in Ireland with over 4,000 pipes!
Our next stop was at Trinity College Dublin - a must see when in Dublin: visitors enter through the Library Shop and proceed to the Book of Kells "Turning Darkness into Light" exhibition; then to the Treasury where the Book of Kells and other related manuscripts are on view; then proceed upstairs to the magnificent Long Room which houses 200,000 of the Library’s oldest books in its oak bookcases. An inspiring place with so many old books and lined marble busts of philosophers, writers and men connected with Trinity College (again, Jonathan Swift). Ahhh: it includes other treasures such as the oldest Harp and a copy of the 1916 Proclamation of the Irish Republic.

Molly Malone Statue

As we still had some time off before dinner, we had a look at some stores and bought our first gifts along Grafton Street, a pedestrian street. Before returning to Jurys Inn another sight worth being mentioned: the statue of Molly Malone pushing her wheelbarrow... it's hard to miss it on the corner of Grafton Street and Nassau Street, this female character known to be a fishmonger by day and a prostitute by night.
Our day was not over yet, though!!! After dinner we went to Hard Rock Cafe Dublin in Fleet Street (Temple Bar area) but... guess what? It was already closing time and we couldn't get in! It was just 10 p.m., can you believe that???? Well, we couldn't miss a bit so we still had a walk around Temple Bar, the Bohemian Dublin, with its lively nightlife and medieval street pattern, with many narrow cobbled streets.
What a day, hem? Long, tiring but ALL was worthwhile :)
Now enjoy some pictures of the  places I've just mentioned!


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Travel Diary IRELAND - DAY 1

I'm back, folks! We are all back - safe and sound - after 5 days in Ireland.
A week ago our group of 22 departed from Lisbon airport having landed in Dublin around 4pm. We were taken straight to the hotel and after a stroll and dinner, the first evening was spent with a typical Irish Music and Dance show at Arlington Hotel , Dublin. Nice!
Have a look now at our first pictures :=)

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School Trip To IRELAND

Image Credit:
WIKIPEDIA

Time goes by quickly, very quickly!
A year ago I posted here about our school trip to London / England. Well, this year's school trip is obviously to an English-speaking country, but this time IRELAND - both to the Republic of Ireland where we will visit Dublin, Kilkenny and Wicklow, and Northern Ireland including The Giant's Causeway and, naturally, Belfast.
All the 22 participants from Soure (we will join another school group led by teachers Helena and Cláudia in Dublin) have high expectations so... we just hope everything will be fine - just like last year - not only during the day but also at night when some extra activities are already planned: an evening of Irish Music and Dance, Temple Bar area and... Hard Rock Cafe Dublin!!!
We can hardly wait for the day to come... wish us all the best in the crisis- stricken country (not different from our own!!!).
Have a look now at this video by the History Channel that so well portrays Ireland we are about to visit: