The Galleries of Dublin! :)

On Thursday of last week, we took off into town for the day with our two English teachers Ms B and Ms G. We went in to see a few of the galleries and museums in the city. We went to the Yeats Museum, the National Museum of Ireland and the National Art Gallery.

It was such a great day in Dublin with all of the TY students, especially with the sun shining down on Grafton Street at lunch time! My class, Amina, went to the Yeats museum first while the other class, Emnet, went to the National Museum of Ireland first. The Yeats museum was very interesting. We were given an insight into the life of W.B Yeats. We got to see lots of his belongings and pieces of work which were left behind after his death. The tour guide was also a great help and was very clear so you could understand her extremely well. I feel that this is always a good help rather than someone boring who you cannot hear properly!

After the Yeats museum we swapped over with Emnet. They went to the Yeats museum while we went to the National Museum of Ireland. We went to this specifically to see the bog bodies but we got a small tour of the stone age and bronze age before we saw the bog bodies. The bog bodies were very very interesting. It was incredible to see such detail left in the bodies after so many years.

When we were finished in the National Museum of Ireland, we all went for lunch. We were given an hour and a half for lunch to go wherever and do whatever. We were really close to Grafton Street so everybody headed there to buy food. Most people went to McDonalds. I absolutely despise fast food places like that so I went into the foodhall of Marks and Spencers and I bought myself a delcious pasta salad with a slice of carrot cake for after! :)

Most of the girls took themselves and their lunches up to St. Stephan's Green to sit in the sun and eat. The rest of us stayed around the Grafton Street area and we ended up getting free make-up samples from BT2!

After lunch, we all met back at the gates of Dail Eireann. When everyone was gathered up, we headed for the National Art Gallery. We took the long way around to it, but it was nice and sunny so we didn't mind. In the gallery we were split into two groups once again - Amina and Emnet. We were taken around the gallery to some of the different paintings. Each painting that we looked at was explained to us clearly by the tour guide. It was a really interesting tour. I really enjoyed it.

After the tour in the art gallery, we headed for the bus to go back home. The bus home was good fun. It was a great day out and thanks again to our English teachers, Ms B and Ms G.

Niamh! :D

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