Today all the TY's headed off at 9.05. We got a bus to town and then we were split into the to classes. First Amina went to the W.B. Yeats exhibition. It was interesting to learn about his life and his inspiration for his poems. His marriage proposal was officially rejected by the same woman 5 times and in his 50's, we eventually married someone nearly 30 years his junior. There was loads of his original notebooks and things like that. You can see the exhibition online here.
Then Amina and Emnet swapped and we went to the National Museum of Ireland. We got to see artefact's through all the ages and then we got to see some bog bodies. It was quite disturbing looking at someone who died hundreds of years ago, but it was amazing how well they were preserved, they even had hair and teeth!
We then got an hour and a half to go get lunch and then we met back at the museum.
Afterwards we all went to the National Gallery. We we talked through 4 paintings and two of them are from WB Yeats' brother Jack. It was interesting to see how much an artist can change his style over his lifetime.
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