A day in Dublin - what to do?

[classic33]

I don't think anyone promotes the Irish as a nation of saints. It's just that the majority of interactions with tourists are genial, helpful and welcoming while both parties, the tourists and the hosts, leave the atrocities and unexplored in the touristy dialogues. Try the following for size. I'm sure that it's a snug fit.

Which is ok, except that everyone goes on about the Irish Scots as if they are somehow a nation of friendly and genial folk without exception.

I have pals that have been on the receiving end of loudly voiced anti English sentiments which made them feel unwelcome enough to leave a pub with their drinks abandoned unfinished on the table.

Bit harsh. They're people just like the rest of us. Idiots exists on both sides.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Bad wording, I agree, I was just saying.... Well, you can see what I wrote, there is this idea that you will always be ok.

As for Anti Englishness, as Classic says' there are a small number of idiots on all sides. Hearing Anti Englishness from my Fellow Scots makes me cringe, and it works the same with anyone really.

 

[classic33]

Bad wording, I agree, I was just saying.... Well, you can see what I wrote, there is this idea that you will always be ok.

As for Anti Englishness, as Classic says' there are a small number of idiots on all sides. Hearing Anti Englishness from my Fellow Scots makes me cringe, and it works the same with anyone really.

Except between Yorkshire and Lancashire.

 

[Archie_tect]

There is no antipathy there Classic, there's just no interaction at all.

 

[classic33]

There is no antipathy there Classic, there's just no interaction at all.

Between Yorkshire and Lancashire!

 

[bof]

National Gallery of Ireland. They have a Vermeer. Anytime you go to a city with a Vermeer it's your duty as a human being to take a look.

I hadn't realised there was one there - thanks for the tip. There's one exception though. There was an excellent exhibition of Vermeer and other contemporary Dutch painters who set the context for the Vermeers which I had the good luck to catch in Rome just before it closed in January and this was the last painting in the show. Apart from the Tapestry on the left pretty mediocre and you'd never guess it was by him - I can only assume that Vermeer took a dislike to whoever commissioned it.

 

[Archie_tect]

Between Yorkshire and Lancashire!

It's just a rumour spread by softy southerners....

We love Lancashire... it's a grand place, apparently.

 

[bof]

Utterly off topic - same show had this attributed painting which is wonderful - the photo does a terrible injustice - of St Praxedis. The picture it was copied from was alongside, never was Picasso's maxim about great artists stealing truer

Sorry as you were - back to Dublin. Top tip - during the uni break you can use Trinity College as a hostel.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I'd rather see more art to be honest!