The last two Thursdays of November we were all busy bees. All of the TYs headed into town for an English trip on WB Yeats. Feeling adventurous we visited The National Museum, The National Library, The National Gallery and The 1913 Lockout Exhibition.In the National Museum, we learnt all about the Bronze Age and The Iron Age. We got to see actual real life bog bodies. I was amazed as to how well the bog preserved them as some of them were as old as 2000 years!
My favourite was the WB Yeats exhibit in the National Library. I loved the lay out of the whole place and I felt more independent walking around, as you got the chance to explore different sources and rooms as you wished, without a tour guide leading the way. In the centre of the room was a poetry layout which was very nice. As you looked around there was a an over voice on an intercom reading out some of Yeats' poetry.
For a short and unexpected visit, our history teacher Mr. K brought us to the 1913 Lockout Exhibition for a short while, as this is what we have been doing in our history classes at the moment!
Our teachers then let us off for our lunch on Grafton street for a good two hours! We got a wander in and had plenty of fun.. although I lost 5 euro, but Maccy D's made everythaang better!
To finish off our day, we went to The National Gallery which I also enjoyed. We focused mainly on the paintings created by Yeats himself. We were left in absolute awe with the beauty of some of the paintings :)
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