Ireland

July 17 - 28, 2004

The river Liffey splits Dublin in two	South bank of Liffey	O'Connell street bridge	Grafton street: basically, a large shopping mall	Temple Bar area
Main gate of Trinity College, Dublin	St. Stephen's Green (city park)	Georgian houses south of city center	Heading towards University College	A strange modern sculpture at Trinity College
Jon Gair and Frans Pretorius on the Trinity campus	St. Patrick's Cathedral (Jonathan Swift was the Dean here)	Just another street to confuse those who drive on the right	Walkway in Dublin Castle	Ye Olde Parking lot in the Castle
Castle chapel	Lawn in front of Chester Beatty Library	More of same	Conference opening by Mary MacAleese, President of Ireland	GR-17 delegates
Stature of Larkin with Millenium Spire in background	Liffey at night	Most city buses are two-story affairs	Stephen Hawking with aide after his GR-17 lecture	Preskill, Hawking and Thorne following press-conference
This is now a museum	This building is already labeled quite clearly	Casks of the magic potion at the Guiness Brewery	The Brewery had old advertising posters on display	Another item from the exhibition
View of the town from the top floor of the Guiness Brewery	At 7 stories, brewery is one of the tallest buildings in town	The older brewery building below	Birds over Dublin	Gravity Bar - best Guiness in the world (it's at the source!)
Andrew Nolan (Donal O'Connell's former student) with sailor statue	Anglo-Irish Bank buildings	Amnesty International sculpture	Jon Gair and Mike Kesden at a bar below O'Connell train station	This street in Ballsbridge was full of embassy buildings
Jon at the Mermaid	Frans with his appetizer	Ilya and Mrs. O'Connell, who took us to this excellent eatery	The stone age tomb at Knowth	Ilya emerges from underground escape route of a medieval house
Passageway into Knowth burrial chamber	Megalithic art at Knowth	Reconstructed temple	View of Boyne Valley	Ilya with River Boyne in the background
This speaks (or screams?) for itself	The town of Drogheda	A few picturesque cottages	St. Mary's bridge in Drogheda	Umm... flowers?
Drogheda with old tower in background	A pond in Connemara (west coast of Ireland, north of Galway)	A donkey grazes in Connemara	This rural area is so picture-perfect that Potemkin villages come to mind	Jon on a bike - that's how we got around here