{"id":466,"date":"2018-08-16T11:15:58","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T11:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perrisinfo.org\/?p=466"},"modified":"2018-08-16T11:15:58","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T11:15:58","slug":"dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perrisinfo.org\/index.php\/2018\/08\/16\/dublin\/","title":{"rendered":"Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"

At 8.50 am we met the bridge group to go on a bus tour to Glendalough and then come back through Dublin.<\/p>\n

As we headed through town we saw many bridges across the River Liffey that flows through the centre of Dublin. Its main tributaries include the River Dodder, the River Poddle and the River Camac. I was totally amused by these names.<\/p>\n

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Dublin Ha’penny Bridge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Dublin 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Dublin 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Dublin 5<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Dublin 4<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Dublin Streetlights<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We also saw the statues in memory of the famine of 1845-1849 which killed over 1 million people, which was one eighth of the population. The famine was caused by potato crop failures due to blight. The farmers were basically subsistence farmers and when this occurred they could not provide food for their families. The bus driver also referred to this as a case of genocide as the British took all the corn and left the Irish with no food. I have googled and cannot find reference to this, but you can see how the strong feelings of the past have not totally diminished.<\/p>\n

We also went past a building that had many windows bricked up. The driver said this was the origins of the saying \u2018Daylight Robbery\u2019. In 1696, William 111 of England introduced a window tax whereby\u00a0 people had to pay tax for each window they had in their house. So people boarded or bricked up their windows and lived without sunlight. This lasted in the UK until 1851. There are other references on the internet that dispute this origin of the saying \u2013 but I like this one. I as on the wrong side of the bus so couldn\u2019t get a photo but you can see some at this link:<\/p>\n

It took about 1.5 hours to get to Glendalough which is a monastic ruin from the 12th<\/sup> century. The cathedal was originally built for Saints Peter and Paul.\u00a0 It stopped being a cathedral in 1241. It was fascinating to see all the ancient tombstones that were so weathered you could not see the writing clearly. We found one that clearly showed 1790.<\/p>\n

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Glendalough Tombstone 1790<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Glendalough Tombstones<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Glendalough Building<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n