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Dublin Castle may be the best place to get your bearings in August! Why? Because during August you can see four impressive sand sculptures in the courtyard of Dublin Castle. The theme of the exhibition is Compass and each of the four pieces represent the four main compass points of North, South, East and West. [...] Trinity College Dublin looks great empty! The stately buildings, the cobbled paths, the enclosed squares and the open playing fields all make Trinity the most unique Dublin university. Add in the Book of Kells and the Long Room and Old Library and you have plenty of reasons for visiting. Ah but once you visit, it [...] Here I am typing on a laptop and every character I select appears magically on my screen. We’ve come a long way since 1455 when Johannes Gutenberg invented a metal movable type printing press. We’ve certainly come a long way since the Phoenicians developed an alphabet, since the Sumerians developed cuneiform writing and since the Egyptians developed hieroglyphs. [...] |
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