{"id":1264,"date":"2012-04-02T16:26:28","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T20:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2012-04-03T16:28:22","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T20:28:22","slug":"student-tours-to-dublin-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/student-tours-to-dublin-ireland","title":{"rendered":"Get to Know: Student Tours to Dublin, Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sometimes culture hangs in the air when walking about a foreign city. But in Dublin, you might find it\u2019s firmly stuck in the ground. That\u2019s thanks to the stories surrounding every statue strewn about Ireland\u2019s capital\u2014starting with well-known ones springing from the likenesses of literary legends. For example, on North Earl Street, you\u2019ll encounter a very life-like James Joyce, author of Ulysses <\/em>and the short story collection Dubliners. <\/em>And in Merrion Park, just a hop, skip and a jump from Dublin\u2019s famed Trinity College, you\u2019ll discover a rather eye-catching statue of the controversial Oscar Wilde. The writer\u2019s unique sculpture sprawls lazily across a rock, decked out in a bright green jacket with hot pink lapels! (Photo opp, anyone?)<\/p>\n


\n\"The<\/a>\u00a0Next up, you\u2019ll be tipping your hat to history. As you continue down Dublin\u2019s main thoroughfare, you\u2019ll greet a fare share of Ireland\u2019s political icons such as Daniel O\u2019Connell, for whom the main street was christened. Known as The Liberator<\/em> for the central role he played in battling for Catholic rights in the 19th<\/sup> century, O\u2019Connell\u2019s statue is surrounded by angels hovering proud atop his towering namesake monument.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll take in the historical\u2026and the contemporary too. See the Spire of Dublin that strikes a very modern pose. Looming some 400-feet tall, this tapering, stainless steel cylinder stands tall in the midst of a bustling traffic center. One look and you\u2019ll understand why the locals call it The Stiletto in the Ghetto. (<\/em>You knew you couldn\u2019t wander far in Ireland without bumping into a rhyme or two.) In fact, many of the statues have affectionate (and quirky) rhyming nicknames. Try and spot The Crank on the Bank, The Hags with the Bags and the Ace with the Bass. <\/em>If you succeed, you\u2019ll surely share some laughs with the locals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes culture hangs in the air when walking about a foreign city. But in Dublin, you might find it\u2019s firmly stuck in the ground. That\u2019s thanks to the stories surrounding every statue strewn about Ireland\u2019s capital\u2014starting with well-known ones springing from the likenesses of literary legends. For example, on North Earl Street, you\u2019ll encounter a Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,63,172],"tags":[244,58,153,243,156],"class_list":["post-1264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parents","category-students","category-teachers","tag-dublin","tag-educational-travel","tag-ireland","tag-student-tours-ireland","tag-student-travel-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1269,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions\/1269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}