Day 9: Thu 5 Sep - Dublin
Another event organised by yours truly! I was hoping it would be a good one and it was but it wasn’t. There was far too much detail in the PowerPoint presentation and on the walk, it was difficult to hear the commentary. And, it seemed that not everyone was interested to hear the history and had to be told to be quiet a number of times. Places visited included: - Collins Barracks (until recently the oldest and continuously occupied purpose built barracks in the world); -The Four Courts (the initial pressure point of the Civil War in 1922); - O’Connell Street; - General Post Office (GPO) the HQ of the Rebel Forces in 1916 until flushed out by artillery fire; - Moore Street; - North King Street; - Trinity College Dublin (TCD) founded 1592 (again an outside view but interestingly the location of an Australian sniper pressed into service in 1916); - The Parnell Monument; - The O’ Connell Monument; - St. Stephens G...