Our first real day in Ireland consisted of walking around Galway’s City Centre (downtown). We enjoyed the pedestrian High Street area [1][2]. After walking past St. Nicholas’ Cathedral [1][2][3], we walked down the beautiful Riverside Walk [1][2] on the Corrib River. Always safety-conscious, a life preserver is often found near water in public places.
Ireland is a rich place for the literary among us. Aimee is a bit of a James Joyce scholar having taken a course on Joyce and spending a summer researching him back in her college days. Galway provided our first Joyce stop on the trip, the Nora Barnacle House. Dublin will provide many more as we will be in Dublin for Bloomsday! Nora Barnacle was the wife of James Joyce and this house was where she lived at the turn of the century with her mother and 6 siblings. OK, this house had 1 room upstairs and 1 downstairs. It is tiny. Aimee knew most everything the nice tour guide did, but she did learn some new things in talking with her. The woman also gave us some suggestions to places to drive to in the next few days. We couldn’t take pictures inside, but we were able to take pictures of the outside [1][2].
My mother took some nice photos of the City Centre area, check them out.
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