Day Out in Dublin :)

Yesterday all the TYs headed off on our bus and mini bus in to town for our 'daaay out'. Firstly we went in to the W.B Yeats exhibition, and our class was shown around the place by Ms.Brogan who knew alot on information about it as she'd been there a few times before.We were all given worksheets and paired up to help focus us and so that we'd gather facts about Yeats and his history by looking around the place. This exhibition was actually my favourite because it was really pretty to look around and was generally super interesting, like who'd have known Yeats scored 69% in English in Year 5? There was loads of his original writing in glass cases which you could look at aswell as pictures of his family and the 'love of his life' - Maud Gonne, who inspired my favourite poem 'He Wishes For The Cloths of Heaven'.. soo nice:) There was this little circle at the beginning of the exhibition where you could sit and listen to some of his poems being read out and watch a slide show, it was a pretty relaxing start to the morning :)
Next we went to the nli (national library of Ireland) which had a few different artifacts placed in glass cases which were covered with blankets which you could lift up, to protect them from the light. We saw what ads looked like back then aswell, there was a poster of a missing cat and an ad showing that Germany were playing Ireland in football, really cool to see. The last of the exhibitions was a trip to see what were described as 'Bog Bodies' in the National Museum. The bodies were hidden by a circular wall which you had to walk around to see them, I got a fright at first as I didn't actually expect to see it straight away.. haha. The bodies were really interesting but kind of scary to look at. One of the skulls still had red hair attatched to it, making it seem so much more real.  It was weird to think that those people were alive and walking some time, especially as all that was left were the yellow rotting bones :/
We were then free for 45 minutes and me and my friends got the long -awaited McDonalds.. yum! So nice, then Me and Niamh went up to the Disney shop and had a look around, best shop ever!<3 After lunch then we all met up at River Island(love that shop too) and walked down to the Abbey Theatre to see the play 'Juno and the Paycock' which we had all just read in class. The play was much better than I expected and had some really funny parts aswell, I actually understood what was happening because I got pretty confused when reading it in class.. Overall it was a really fun, interesting day out and another highlight of TY, bring on the rest :)