“Dublin is a beautiful city,” said Aunt Hannah. “There’s plenty of fine sights I’d like to show you all. There’s the River Liffey, and the canals, and Dublin Bay. Then there is St. Patrick’s Cathedral that is named in honor of the good saint, and the Bank of Ireland, and Phœnix Park.”
“There is O’Connell Street, too,” added Captain Conn. “It’s one of the widest streets in all Europe. I’d like to do some shopping there.”
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O’Connell Street (formerly called Sackville Street), Dublin
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“We could see the O’Connell Monument and the Nelson Pillar in O’Connell Street,” suggested Deena, “and we’d get a splendid view of the city from the top of the Pillar.”
“Danny and I could stop at Belfast to see the linen mills,” Tara said to his father. “You said only yesterday it was time we were going up there to learn the business.”
“It is always easy to think of reasons for doing just what we want to be doing,” replied his father, “but it is time now to be thinking of going to work. We will talk about the journey later when we have more time for it.”
He must have found time to think of it during the day, and to talk it over with Aunt Hannah, too, for, wonder of wonders, before they went to bed that night it had been decided that Uncle Tom should take the whole family up to the North of Ireland the next week, to meet Uncle Jerry Barry, and to have a look at the Giant’s Causeway.