Sorry for the slow pace of late. I’ve been trying to catch up some at work and my social life has been pretty busy at the same time. We caught the original Inherit the Wind at AFI last night and it was rather fun. Caught part of a lecture afterwards, apparently the most effective way to promote belief in the theory of evolution to the U.S. public is to play up the practical science that has resulted from it, particularly in the medical field. Also apparently insulting people’s religion isn’t that effective of an approach and plays into opposition framing. Shocker there.
In any event jumping back a little we returned to Dublin on the 13th and went to Dublin Castle on the 14th. Most every museum in Ireland is only open from 10 am – 5 pm, so it can be rather tricky to get in that much non-wandering sight seeing. As a result, here’s some more pictures of things we could see from outside.
We actually wandered to the East part of town a bit on the evening of the 13th and saw the Customs House, the historic center of tax flows from Ireland to Britain. Also there was a memorial to the victims of the Irish potato famine and a Quaker ship that managed unlike most of the coffin boats never lost a passenger to America. What we commonly heard about the famine was that the population of Ireland was around four million, around a million died and another million emigrated. The population is about back to the four million level but hasn’t ever gone higher.
In any event, the remainder of the pictures were largely buildings and the like that we thought were neat.
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