Ireland 2023 - Day 17  - Last Day in Dublin 

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The International Marathon lead to certain streets being closed, but not the ones we walked down as we made our way back to the Archeology Museum, starting at Grafton Street, an extension of Harcourt & the most popular shopping area in Dublin, just two blocks from the hotel. 

 We walked to Grafton because neither of us had been on the street before. No vehicles are allowed on Grafton. 

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	rainy Sunday on Grafton St.		holiday enticements
		three story indoor mall w/ Victorian structure		St. Stephen's Green

National Library - this is an interesting building, and we mainly went there to get out of the rain & use a clean (or even classy) restroom. Afterwards we found a Wm. B. Yates display (until June 2025), consisting of thousands of items relating to his life and work, and, there were ten or more 'listening rooms' where historical documentaries or poetry readings could be heard.

Here are a few images from the brief visit.

	entry to the exhibit
		W. B. Yates, 1865-1939		National Library, from Archeology Museum

At the Archeology Museum next door, Doris & I asked about the Egyptian display and it is tricky to find, up a special spiral stairway. Later we split up for an hour and each went through different collections. 

			wooden sculpture
		housewares dept.		Victorian structure again
	where the (Celtic) gold is		gold neck wear from 2000 bc
		Tara brooch, once more		museum entry
	Museum of Archeology (web photo)

On Sunday evening, again due to Marathon crowds at Camden Court, we enjoyed another uncrowded 6 pm dinner at Iveagh Garden Hotel, on our the last night in Dublin.   

Back in the hotel room later, I found the World Cup Rugby Final on TV, just beginning, so I went out for 10 minutes to a corner SPAR to get two cans of Guinness & salted peanuts, and then got comfortable & watched my first ever Rugby game,  New Zealand vs. South Africa. 

I figured out basic game strategy pretty quickly, consisting mainly of brute force, between immensely large bodies, like a Neanderthal physics problem, while finesse means an end run that succeeds. NZ pulled off a beautiful end run that went into the goal zone, for 5 pts., but the runner stepped out of bounds.  In the end it was South Africa 12 & New Zealand 11.         

On Monday, Day 18, Doris and I flew out of DUB around 11:30 am. She was heading to Denver via Iceland, while I stopped at Chicago for one night. On day 19 I was home by noon, on Halloween, just in time to rake the leaves. 

Pacific Red Maple out front

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Postscript - all photos (other than web shots, or as noted) were taken with a Canon G16 point & shoot camera, a refurbished 2014 model.