The first day we went to Strokestown Park, the home of the Irish National Famine Museum. It is housed in a manor house that was owned by the Mahon family. During the Famine, the Irish living on the grounds shot the owner when he started evicting his tenants.  

 

 3. The next day we journeyed to Cobh (pronounced "Cove," formerly known as Queenstown). It was from this town that many of the emigrants left for America. It was also the last stop for the Titanic and the Lusitania before they sank. Cobh, in my opinion, was the prettiest town in Ireland. This picture is part of downtown and St. Colman's Cathedral.

 4. On the way home from Cobh we stopped to eat supper in Adare, a very touristy town that has the traditional thatched cottages. Here it rained, as usual, but we were rewarded to a brilliant rainbow over the town.
  

 
 5. Of course, no trip to Ireland would be complete without a stop in Dublin, the capital. This is the General Post Office on O'Connell Street, the site of the 1916 Easter Uprising against British rule. I wandered around Dublin most of the day, seeing the Books of Kells and the famous "Doors of Dublin." Dublin reminded me of Boston, Massachusetts - the same type of architecture and the same type of street layout- haphazard!

     
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