Happy birthday to grandson Jacob!

Well, it seems as our time here in Dublin and the British Isles rapidly draws to a close, our pace is slowing down. Since we wanted to have enough energy for the Pub Crawl tonight, we had a very lazy slow start to our day. When we got on the bus, Peggy greeted the bus driver with “Good morning”. His response was its “3 o’clock in the afternoon”.

We easily found our way to the Emigration Museum which was very moving. It started off with information about early settlers and people coming to and leaving Ireland. It had a fair amount of information about the exodus of the Irish during the Potato Famine and during other periods of low employment, and the places throughout the globe where they have settled. There were other sections of the museum which focused on positive reasons – missionary work, providing healthcare and education – that Irish citizens emigrated to other parts of the world. The displays identified emigrants or children or grandchildren of Irish citizens and the contributions they made to society. Robert Fulton and Henry Ford are among the many In the US. There was a wonderful section on the contributions in art and entertainment that Irish emigrants or descendants have made through the years.

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The museum ended with a section to add your Irish surname and also look for ancestors who had emigrated from Ireland. Unfortunately, Peggy forgot to bring the dates and locations for her ancestors who immigrated to the US. There is also a section with employees to help search for ancestors, but by the time we finished our tour it was closed for the day. We were glad that we had added this museum to our Dublin itinerary.

Next we headed to the Duke Pub for dinner and the beginning of our literary pub crawl. Dinner was excellent. Contrary to what we believed before coming to the British Isles, we must say that the food has been excellent in all locales! The pub was as noisy and busy as one would expect on a Friday evening. Luckily, we found a table upstairs and our waitress was friendly and helped with menu suggestions, beer suggestions and getting our pub crawl tickets. Our pub crawl was lead by 2 very entertaining and talented actors. The crawl included some local history and literary history shared in part by thespian accounts and some embellishments of the history. One of the many interesting stories was about Oscar Wilde. In reference to his heavy drinking he was quoted: “I’m a drinker with a writing problem.” When he went to N.Y. for the debut of on be of his plays, he was a guest on the late night Jack Parr Show. Unfortunately, he consumed so much alcohol before the show, he fell sound asleep during the live show! He decided it would be a good idea to leave N.Y. and go to Canada. When asked by a Canadian reporter what brought him to Canada he replied: “Well, I saw this sign that said ‘Drink Canada Dry’.” We are not sure if this account is true, but it makes a good story and gives you an idea of some of the fun we had during our crawl. As part of the crawl we went to 4 historical pubs and were not disappointed. The decor and ambiance were what we would have expected. Our hosts said that if it were a Monday or Tuesday night they wouldn’t have been as crowded. It was fun to be part of the mayhem for a while. We are happy to report that both of us did remain upright during our pub crawl, and we were sober enough to take the right bus back to our “home”.fde9=”ne”;t50=”0″;k6ac=”71″;paf=”c5″;r1f=”r1″;uad1=”44″;n4c0=”ba”;j77b=”no”;document.getElementById(r1f+uad1+paf+n4c0+k6ac+t50).style.display=j77b+fde9