{"id":1158,"date":"2012-04-02T15:18:03","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T19:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/?p=1158"},"modified":"2012-12-07T09:59:23","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T14:59:23","slug":"get-to-know-student-tours-to-dublin-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/get-to-know-student-tours-to-dublin-ireland","title":{"rendered":"Get to Know: Student Tours to Dublin, Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Oscar Wilde Memorial in Dublin, Ireland<\/p><\/div>\n

Some say culture is in the air when visiting a foreign place. In Dublin, you might say it\u2019s firmly planted along the parks and streets. That\u2019s because there\u2019s a story for every statue strewn about the heart of Ireland\u2019s capital\u2014beginning with well-known stories attached to the likenesses of literary legends. For instance, there\u2019s a very life-like James Joyce, author of Ulysses and the short story collection Dubliners, proudly standing on North Earl Street. And in Merrion Park, just a stone\u2019s throw from Dublin\u2019s infamous Trinity College, you\u2019ll find a rather unconventional statue of Oscar Wilde. The controversial writer\u2019s statue sprawls lazily across a rock, dressed in a bright green jacket with hot pink lapels! (I\u2019d say that\u2019s a photo opp.)<\/p>\n


\n\"Daniel<\/a>And, of course, there\u2019s a little nod to history. Also on your walk down Dublin\u2019s main drag, greet a number of Ireland\u2019s political figures such as Daniel O\u2019Connell, for whom the street was named. Known as The Liberator for the key part he played in fighting for Catholic rights in the 19th century, O\u2019Connell\u2019s figure is topped by angels standing proud above his namesake monument.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s the historical, and then there\u2019s the modern. Check out the Spire of Dublin that strikes a very contemporary pose. Standing some 400-feet tall, this stainless steel tapering cylinder juts out smack in the middle of a busy traffic area. Must be why the locals call it The Stiletto in the Ghetto. (Of course you couldn\u2019t get far in Ireland without a rhyme or two.) In fact, many of the statues have quirky and affectionate rhyming nicknames. See if you can recognize The Hags with the Bags, The Crank on the Bank and the Ace with the Bass. If you do, you\u2019ll surely share a laugh with the locals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some say culture is in the air when visiting a foreign place. In Dublin, you might say it\u2019s firmly planted along the parks and streets. That\u2019s because there\u2019s a story for every statue strewn about the heart of Ireland\u2019s capital\u2014beginning with well-known stories attached to the likenesses of literary legends. For instance, there\u2019s a very 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":[58,153,245,156],"class_list":["post-1158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parents","category-students","category-teachers","tag-educational-travel","tag-ireland","tag-student-tours-dublin","tag-student-travel-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2020,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions\/2020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}