Well Sarah and I went to Dublin on Monday past. The general idea was to go to some galleries and do a bit of shopping. It was a great day (see the pics in the photo album). Unfortunately though so many galleries and museums close on Monday. A man from Dublin I mentioned this to today laughed and said (jokingly) "Well that's just for all you Northerners with your bank holidays!" So we went to the National Gallery which was open. The Jack B. Yeats (William's brother) exhibition is well worth the visit. Also the Book of Kells is pretty nifty and hey, a libraray with 200,000 volumes in a long bust-filled room with tall roof-high stacks and a smell of very old books was just what I needed. They wouldn't let me set up a tent there, so we moved on...
I find myself in or connected to Dublin more often these days. The organisation I work for has their head offices there and I am working with more and more people from Dublin and the South in general. I find myself in an organisation that spans the island and find it actually quite refreshing. There really doesn't seem like there's a divide any more. So here's to more connecting that cross the border, or perhaps I should really say more connections that exist as if there isn't a border. The gates seem open.
Comments