Trip to the Dáil and Trinity Science gallery.
This week we went on an adventure to the Dáil followed by a tour around the science gallery in Trinity.
We got into the building and were taken up stairs to the bar and waited for our tour guide to take us around the whole building and give us some background information.
We were taken to the room where the politicians sit around and argue about how the government is run, its also where it is broadcasted to the nation. This room used to be the lecture room for the Royal Dublin Society.
Next we were taken to the Seanad but on the way we past through a gallery of portraits of past Taoiseachs. When we got to the room where the Seanad is held we came in through the press door. there was a small section of seats for where the press can take notes and watch what’s being said. The room where the Seanad is held used to be a ball room when the house was owned by Duke of Leinster.
After seeing the Seanad we headed back downstairs but on the way we stopped to look at a flag given to the Irish government from JFK, the flag was from the American Civil war and there was also a case of the old Irish Punt notes and coins.
Next it was lunch we all went our separate ways and had to meet up at the science museum in an hour. getting the the museum was a bit of a challenge since coming through Trinity is like going through a maze but with Kev leading the way we made it.
The museum was a bit strange, it was all about hyperbolic shapes made into a coral reef.
It was made from lots of different plastics and wool, there were loads of different colours involved in each reef and it made them really cool looking as well as the shape the corals make when they unfold.
The coral was made up of hyperbolic shapes that are a huge thing in maths if your interested in maths.
The way the shape is makes a line drawn across it always be straight, it might look like its not but it is. Because of this it means that time travel is theoretically possible which would be pretty awesome.
looking at the exhibition was good and it looked like a lot of effort went into making it especially since it was lots of different countries work all in one place but when it came to having it explained to us I couldn’t grasp the whole maths side of it and just wandered around looking at the different pieces.
Any way all in all it was a good day out we got to see different things that were going on in our city center and we had good craic as a group in general
