Dublin

These are a few photos from around Dublin. The first is from inside a shopping center.

And these two are from random government buildings.

 

 

This is the famous ha'penny bridge (officially the Liffey Bridge). It is a cast iron pedestrian bridge built in 1816 over the River Liffey. According to Wikipedia: "Before the Ha'penny Bridge was built there were seven ferries, operated by a William Walsh, across the Liffey. The ferries were in a bad condition and Walsh was informed that he had to either fix them or build a bridge. Walsh chose the latter option and was granted the right to extract a ha'penny (half-penny) toll from anyone crossing it for 100 years."

 

 

Equally famous is the statue of Molly Malone.Slainte

 

 

According to Wikipedia:

The Proclamation of the Republic (Irish: Forógra na Poblachta), also known as the 1916 Proclamation or Easter Proclamation, was a document issued by the Irish Volunteers and Irish Citizen Army during the Easter Rising in Ireland, which began on 24 April 1916. In it, the Military Council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, styling itself the "Provisional Government of the Irish Republic", proclaimed Ireland's independence from the United Kingdom. The reading of the proclamation by Patrick Pearse outside the General Post Office (GPO) on Sackville Street (now called O'Connell Street), Dublin's main thoroughfare, marked the beginning of the Rising. The proclamation was modelled on a similar independence proclamation issued during the 1803 rebellion by Robert Emmet.

 

 

And these are just a few of the MANY pubs in Dublin.

 

 

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