Saturday, September 7
Today we stayed in Dublin. It was a day mostly of museums,
shopping and walking around the city. Actually, we walked for 7 ½ hours before
we got home. We visited the Chester Beatty Library first, which has a number of
very early biblical manuscripts, including the earliest-dated fragment of the passage
from The Gospel of John where Jesus says from the Cross, “Woman, behold your
son.”
Our next stop was the Museum of Archaeology. We saw a few
bog bodies. These are corpses of human beings which have been preserved in peat
bogs – some of them for centuries. These unfortunates suffered gruesome deaths,
suggesting that they may have been ritually tortured and murdered. I
won’t go into the details, nor will I post photos, except by request. Many
other items have been discovered in the bogs; most buried in large caches. These
include a great deal of gold and silver jewelry, and two incredibly ornate
bejeweled silver chalices. Also found was a twenty-five foot log boat. After
tea in the museum cafe, we headed home. No pubs today; just tea. After many
miles of walking we had a light dinner and hit the sack early.
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| Street musician on the mall in Dublin |
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| Pedestrian warning for Americans |
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| Silver chalice found in peat bog |
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| With Oscar Wilde in Merrion Square |
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| Ancient wooden wheel from peat bog 400 bce |
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| Brothers out for a stroll Merrion Park Dublin |
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