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Germany
An quick insight to my adopted home and why it can be a very attractive place to live ...
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Ireland
Home sweet home on the farm in all weathers, something that Ireland is famous for ...
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Play the Lotto
Tip your numbers for the Lotto and maybe you’ll be lucky...
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Travel
Places and links that might be useful for your surfing and travel ....
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I studied Mechanical Engineering at Trinity College Dublin - Ireland’s premier University. The University was
founded in 1592 by Queen Elizabeth, and is a sister Universtity of Oxford and Cambridge in England
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Trinity is one of a number of Universities in Dublin, but has the advantage of being located in the city centre,
although at the time of its foundation, it lay outside the city walls! However today its at the centre of the action, between the ‘Temple Bar’ and ‘Grafton Street’. The central
location of Trinity can be seen from the map below...
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Trinity College’s prime attraction is the magnificent Book of Kells, an illuminated manuscript from around 800
AD - one of the oldest books in the world. The book of Kells is displayed in the Old Library (see Illustration below), alongside the Book of Armagh (807 AD) and Book of Durrow (675
AD).
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Unfortunately the Book of Kells with all of it magnificence ain’t going to get you an Engineering Degree, and
there are other normal libraries with more adequate reading for the technically minded amongst us. My favourite library was the 1937 reading room.
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The Trinity Ball was always a highlight, but the ball in 1992 was something special as TCD celebrated its 400th
birthday - pictured above with friends (l. to r. myself, Allen, Barry, Eoghan, Philip) as things started to get going..
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And to prove that all that hard work paid off, here is a picure of my graduation together with the
Dean of Engineering, Prof. Perry.
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