Arrived in Dublin yesterday. I came with my brother and
sister-in-law from Doolin, and we stopped at the Famine Museum in Strokestown
on the way. It was interesting, but there was a lot of texts and very few
objects. The many papers from the Mahon family (the owners of the house) were
interesting.
Once I found my way in yesterday and got settled, I decided
just to relax.
This morning I headed out to Mass at the Cathedral, and
ended up at the 11:00 sung Latin Mass (novus ordo). I took a walk around town
before and after. Dublin is swarming with tourists and with sports fans.
This afternoon I headed off to Old Kilmainham Road, where
some Curleys were living in a tenement around 1908-1910. These may have been
the relatives that Michael Curley supposedly wrote to, “Old Kilmainham” having
probably been handed down in the tradition as “Old Killarney”. I didn’t quite
get all the way, but it was obvious that the neighborhood has been rebuilt, and
the tenements long gone.
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