[Chris]
I know it's been a while since we have posted. Today I'm catching up on some of our recent small trips and one large one.
The Tipperary Museum of Hidden History is a small interactive museum in Clonmel that was quite interesting. It was partly the history of Clonmel and Ireland told in interesting ways (invasions, murders, scandals, heroes, oddities), but then also a separate exhibit on the 80's, which of course is the greatest decade of all time. It's interesting to ponder how US culture spreads to other countries (and vice versa).
I think I may have set the Irish record in Centipede on our way out.
It's hard to capture a museum trip without an overwhelming number of photos of the signs, so hopefully this is a reasonable compromise.
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| Some royal stuff |
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| Some people may be familiar with Bloody Sunday (1972) but not as many people are familiar with Bloody Sunday (1920) when the British police, in response to an assassination that morning, blocked off a hurling match in Dublin, and started firing indiscriminately into the crowd, killing 14 civilians, including kids. The team local to Clonmel (Tipperary) was playing in the match, and one of their players was killed. It's sad for a country to have two Bloody Sundays. Irish "independence" was granted the following year. |
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| A ticket to the match on Bloody Sunday 1920. |
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| A cross |
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| A building block exhibit |
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| Historical excavation plans |
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| Perhaps you too have heard of the band on the left. They wrote a song about Bloody Sunday 1972. |
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| Kind of weird playing without a trackball |
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| Proud dad moment. Not sure why the right cabinet says Asteroids but has Pac-Man. ?? |
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