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Dail and Science Gallery

The class went on a tour of the dail and then onto the science gallery.

In preparation for the dail trip Ronan Mullen who is a lecturer in the ITB and a senator in the Seanad took us for a lecture to explain what we should expect and gave us a brief history of the dail and the seanad. This brought me back to my leaving cert history days so i really enjoyed this. Ronan gave us a great history lesson  on the formation of the dail and the seanad and also gave us a great overview of the day to day running of the country. I really enjoyed this lecture as I have always been interested in Irish History and History in general.

We all met up outside the the dail before the tour. The first place we went was for tea and coffee in the visitors cafe. We were then brought into the dail were our tour guide talked us through everything. From the dail we took a brief tour around the building stopping at various points. The tour guide then lead us into the seanad which is a beautiful room that was once used as a ball room. It has a huge decorated ceiling. From the seanad we moved near the exit were the tour guide talked about the various portraits in the large open area.

I thought the tour was great, it was very interesting and it i something I would certainly do again if I had the opportunity.

When our tour was finished we all seperated for lunch and arranged to meet up at a certain time for our tour of the science gallery.

On exhibition in the science gallery was a Hyperbolic  Crochet Coral Reef. It was linking some sort of confusing science with art which in theory sounds great but it was a bit of a let down. Wasn’t exactly my cup of tea. I didn’t understand the science part of it and personally didn’t think the displays were that nice looking. I was impressed at the amount of work people put into making them and was amazed at how many people contributed to the displays but I just couldn’t bring myself to enjoy them.

The highlight of the day was definitely the tour of Leinster House. As irrelevant as it is to  group of digital media students it was just a great experience that I would love to do again.