For Thursday we expected rain, so we had already planned to see some museums and the Jameson Distilleries on that day. First stop should be Kilmainham Jail, the prison where in 1918 the last revolutionists have been executed and where a lot of sentences of death have been fullfilled.

To find the way from the bus station was quite more difficult than I had expected as we didn’t see any signs leading us to it. There is no possibility to walk through Kilmainham Jail by oneself, so we had to join a guide that looked as I have always thought a typical professor would look like. He explained a lot about the history of the prison and the Irish fight for independence. At the beginning they mainly practised the beheading after the prisoners had been hung and this was done under the eyes of the public as determent. From the start of the 20th century they finally stopped that at least and the prisoners were mainly shot, whereas they were 10 soldiers shooting one person so that none of those should have the feeling he was giving the deadly shot. Kilmainham Jail has as well been a place were a lot of movies have been filmed (e.g. In the name of the father, Michael Collins, Italian Job) which can easily be explained by the impressive interior of the prison. We paid 5 euros for a one hour guidance and that was more than okay and is every cent worth it.

We headed back in the city by bus to see Jameson. I have never been in a distillery so far, even if I really prefer whiskey if it comes to stronger alcohol. Here we had to join a guide as well and the tour was really interessting. The actual distillery is in Cork nowadays and they only use the building in Dublin for museum purposes. The tour ended with a whiskey tasting and afterwards we walked through the tiny shop inside. We took some smaller bottles of whiskey with us which were all a different age.. A normal sized bottle costs about 38 Euros or more. In general I figured out that the whiskey can be bought cheaper in Germany than in Ireland. Interesting would have been the different rare version they offered, which normally were about 100 Euros or more.

From Jameson we decided to skip the Guiness Brewery and go shopping instead and when we returned to our B [&] B I had to clarify if we could leave our luggage in the B [&] B for the next day and get it on the way to the airport, so that we would still have some time in the city on Friday. Joseph [&] Liz were more than helpfull and it turned out to be absolutely no problem.

We returned to city center for a pub again. This time Kennedy’s which was nearly deserted compared to any other pub I had visited in that week. The only other visitors in the pub were all Irish, so that it was pretty much fun anyways.