It was back to Dublin where we started our tour. We stopped at Trinity College and visited their library and the Book of Kells. The library was given the legal rights to a free volume of every book published in Britain and Ireland. The Book of Kells is an illuminated manuscript from the Middle Ages given to Trinity College in the 1660’s. It is written in Latin and contains the four Gospels of the New Testament together with various prefatory texts and tables. This book was probably made close to the year 800.
That night we went to O'Connells Restaurant for a farewell dinner. The owner demonstrated making Irish Soda Bread (which had been served every morning for breakfast) and while we ate we were serenaded by a couple of singers singing Irish Songs as well as some such songs as "Alberta Bound".
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