Trinity College

The Great Ireland Voyage, 2011. I went to Ireland, from October 24 - November 2, 2011. I attended a conference in Dublin, and then had some vacation days in Dublin and elsewhere, including Galway. I took a good number of pictures.

This part covers Trinity College in Dublin and a rather pleasant, sunny Tuesday. Tehcnically speaking, this is all part of the Sunny Tuesday in Dublin and occurred after I got back from UCD. But there are enough pictures here that I decided to pull it out into its own section. The rest of the day is in Part 8.

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Trinity College

This is kind of redundant with the previous introduction section. But I took a bus from University College in Dublin (UCD) a few miles to the south and got off right by Trinity College. I did not see The Book of Kells. I didn't feel like paying +€10 just to see one bible, no matter how nice it might have been. And there was a lot of Trinity that I wanted to explore. And thus I did. (I did find the Computer Science Department and saw the Distributed Computing Group, but there was a security guard in the entrance and it did not seem like a building that welcomed people to wander around and explore. And I wasn't really familiar with the sort of work the CS department at Trinity does.

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Here are a few pictures of one of the entrances to Trinity College. The door is glowing red from the reflection of the bus next to it. It was kind of a neat effect, sinc e the door is normally quite black. I'm not sure who the picture is on the banner on the building over the door in the third picture.

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There's a big arching entranceway that opens up on to the campus. It was a clear, blue sky day and Trinity has the look of an impressive old-school old school. The second picture is looking out at, and across, the street from the entrance. It occurs before the other two, but is between them for layout purposes.

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As usual, a picture of a map, in case I forgot this was Trinity College (or if I wanted to look up specific buildings). And speaking of buildings, I don't really know what specific buildings they are. They are just cool buildings at Trinity College. OK...the second one is The Campanile on Parliament Square.

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Two pictures of The Campanile on Parliament Square. The first a bit darker, metered with more of the sun out, and the second, a bit brighter, metered with the sun blocked behind the Campanile. Both were taken with teh sun obscured.

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Workers were doing some maintenance to the cobblestone road. It was cool to see, though it seems all rather labor intensive. The second picture shows what the cobblestone roads look like, with the sunlight reflecting off of them. And then yet another old stone building which I have to admit I've no idea what it is.

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Two pcitures of a lawn from the fence. The second one has the wrought iron, spikey fence post in the foreground. In the third picture, the sign says that they only cut the grass 3-4 times a year as it's used for "ecology training". Sounds like those signs would make a great excuse anywhere.

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Near a playhouse, there was a big metal door, with the comedy/trajedy masks above it, and barbed wire above it. I'm not sure the message that that sends. A science building has various pipes with gases, specifically, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Helium, "Clean Dry Air", and Hydrogen. I passed by a small garden. One of the labels for the plants reads: Opium Poppy. I'm not sure what's involved in turning dropping the "Poppy" from that plant's name, nor how illegal it is in Ireland, so I took the picture and moved on.

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Outside the physics building, there was a cool device in front of a wall. It was a series of valves that would precisely shoot out bits of water, in sequence. It would create dot-matrix letters from the water and they would fall, as a word, down into the drain below. This was computer controlled, and it was using live results from a search engine (not sure which one) on the most popular searches to drive the words it formed. It's kind of hard to see and I took a few pictures trying to capture the falling words. Sometimes they'd glint in the sunlight, making them easier to read. The second picture has the word "LEAST" and "HALLOWEEN" is in the third.

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There was a science museuem that I stoppped in to take a look around. Water was the theme of the exhibits. There was a whirlpool thingy in one, that looked like the Russian Water Tentacle from The Abyss. And while not an exhibit, they had a security camera and a monitor showing the camera, so I took a picture of my picture being taken, including the picture being taken (I think).

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There have an institute to study Smurf or maybe Smurfette genetics. Or perhaps "Smurf It" is some sort of explitive. It's probably Irish for Smurf, anyway. Oh, the horror! There were kids playing some sort of game on a field. It looked kind of like baseball. But it seemed to be a combination of a few kind of games. There was one point when a kid hit the ball and was running and the others were cheering. I was hoping to get that, but alas my timing was off.

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Another picture of the kids playing the baseball-ish game. I didn't want to dwell around there and seem creepy. The grass fields are really nice. "How do they keep them so flat?" I hear you asking. The answer is simple: Steamroller.

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