Getting dressed doesn’t take too much consideration this morning and after indulging in a full Irish (and vegetarian equivalent) at O’Neill’s we walk off to start on our list of things to see in Dublin. Whitefriar Street Carmelite church is not on the list but provides a nice first stop. It has some lovely mosaics and a great gift shop.

Next stop is the General Post Office to remember the Easter Rising and mail the June birthday cards, and then to look up and up at the Spire of Dublin in the middle of the road outside.

Thanks to inside knowledge from the family history expert we get a tip on a rare opportunity at the Royal Irish Academy Library, and we have a viewing to ourselves of the Book of Ballymote. This is part of their Exhibition of 1014 The Battle of Clontarf.

The National Library of Ireland beckons with its W.B. Yeats exhibition [exhibition site requires flash and broadband] which is also more interesting than we have allowed time for properly. A quick check of the beautiful light blue upstairs reading room, and the opening of a few catalogue drawers and we head back, finding ourselves at the side gate to Trinity College. We know we don’t have time and the crowds for the Book of Kells are daunting, so we walk past the queue and through the College and resolve to get up early tomorrow.

Choral Evensong at St Patrick’s Cathedral at 5.30pm is comfortably full and beautifully sung by choristers in pale blue. It is a special treat to enjoy Stanford in A canticles and For Lo, I raise up in Stanford’s home town.

Dinner is at the Red Hen: surf and turf with pork belly side dish. There is still no sign of our luggage at 9pm when we return to the hotel although the extra helpful hotel reception staff manage to get a promise from Spain that the bags are in Dublin and will be delivered first thing in the morning.

Wiki news
Today we notice Wikipedia promising us a better experience on tablets with a banner link to their latest blog post: Wikimedia sites get a new look on tablets. We appreciate the:

• increased font size and narrowed width of the content area to improve readability
• article sections stay open on tablets but closed on phones
• easier editing tools, and
• last edited note

However there does appear to be an issue with large spacing gaps when images and infoboxes are involved.