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Holiday in Ireland
This blogger is enjoying a holiday in Ireland! We stayed with Joe and Breda in Dublin. Monday was wet but we drove to the National botanical garden and had coffee there. Evensong at St Patrick's National cathedral was sung by the girls and men - Sumsion responses, Leighton service and Victoria Ave Maria. We had tea at Brownthomas and I went to the Catenian circle and dinner at the Royal Dublin hotel. I made a short speech about visiting other circles particularly Sydney and got a little lost on returning by bus to Finglas. The weather has been excellent. We drove to Sligo and visited Maynooth university to see Pugin's magnificent chapel. At Mullingar cathedral of Christ the King we saw the mosaics by Boris Anrep who did mosaics at Westminster Cathedral. The building was opened on the day the second world war started. Our b and b has magnificent views of the mountains around Drumcliff which is Yeats country. It is good to see Dennis and we had dinner with him at the Waterfront h...
Ireland
Liz and I are safely back from a delightful holiday in Ireland. We set off on Monday and parked the car at a garage near Gatwick. All went smoothly and our Ryanair flight even gained 15 minutes on the flight to Shannon. We picked up a small silver Peugeot hire car and set off for the delights of the Castle Oaks Hotel, Castleconnell. A beautiful bedroom, swim, sauna, steam room and jacuzzi before sumptuous 4 course dinner - the best Irish beef and smoked salmon. The next morning we were in the pool again before a full Irish breakfast complete with white and black puddings. Killahoe has a fine cathedral which encloses a High Cross and Ogham stone. We drove to the Cliffs of Moher. Magnificent views over the sea and bay. The new visitors centre built into the hillside had opened a fortnight before and the audio-visuals were excellent. We were lucky with the weather here. It does look as though there will be charges levied to enter the area. We paid 5 euros to park the car. We stopped at Ki...