Dublin
Our day starts off with an orientation drive through Dublin and includes statue-lined O'Connell Street, elegant Georgian squares, and St. Patrick's Cathedral built in 1192. We spent some time walking around St. Patricks Park which contained a children's playground, and a Literary Parade highlighting the works of Swift, Wilde, Shaw, Yeats, Synge, O'Casey, Joyce, Behan, Beckett, Clarke, Dillon and the Liberty Bell Sculpture. We also saw the Viking Museum and the infamous Molly Malone Memorial Statue or "Tart with a Cart". This bronze statue of Molly Malone commemorates the young woman featured in the local ballad, 'Cockles and Mussels'. As the song goes, this beautiful woman plied her trade as a fishmonger through the streets where her statue now rests, until she suddenly died of a fever. As a nod to the folk song, a statue was erected on the corner of Grafton and Suffolk streets and unveiled at the 1988 Dublin Millennium celebrations.

This tune has been adopted as Dublin's unofficial anthem, boosting this heroine to eternal fame. Dinner at our hotel and an early night.