Locations Visited
1. Dublin
2. Kilkenny
3. Waterford
4a. Dungarvan
4b. Ardmore
5. New Ross
6. Carrick on Suir
7. Lismore
8. Cobh
9. Kinsale
X. Youghal
Post Office, O'Connell Street, Dublin
During the Easter Rising of 1916, the Post Office served as the headquarters of the uprising's leaders.
The assault of the British forces extensively damaged the building and the original columns outside are still pocked with bullet-marks.
Ardmore, Co Waterford
St Declan's Church and Round Tower
Ardmore is believed to be the oldest Christian settlement in Ireland. Saint Declan lived in the region at some time in the period 350 – 450 AD and christianised the area before the coming of Saint Patrick.
Cobh, Co Cork, Lusitania Memorial
Memorial to those who perished on the Lusitania, sunk by a German U-boat off the southern coast of Ireland in 1915.
Cobh, Co Cork, Titanic Memorial
Memorial to those who perished on the Titanic in 1912.
Cobh was its last port of call.
Dunbrody, New Ross, Co Wexford
The original Dunbrody was a three masted barque built in Quebec in 1845 by Thomas Hamilton Oliver.
She was commissioned by the Graves family, merchants from New Ross in Wexford and operated primarily as a cargo vessel. She was fitted with bunks and between April to September from 1845 to 1851, she carried passengers on the outward leg to Canada and the US. These passengers were people desperate to escape the famine conditions in Ireland at the time and conditions for steerage passengers were tough. 
Kirwan's Bar, Kill, Co Waterford
Close to the cottage we stayed in, well a mile and a half away - which is a bit too far to walk, so limited to just one pint of Guinness a night. Shame about the car spoiling the picture - I should have moved it!
Lismore Castle
Robert Boyle, the father of modern chemistry, was born here in 1627; the seventh son and fourteenth child of the Earl of Cork.
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