Our final official day of the bus tour began with further travel on the hop on hop off bus and then a visit to Dublin’s newest museum (opened in 2016) called EPIC the Irish Emigration Museum https://epicchq.com/. I had thought this would be focused more narrowly on the famine ships and early emigrant experience but it was actually about the whole Irish identity even up to modern day Irish people and their influence around the world.
The museum was very modern and made impressive use of technology, with interactive screens and characters representing different types of Irish emigrants.
For lunch we went to a funny pub along the Liffey (Dublin’s main river that runs through the city) called Lanigan’s, which not only had decent food but interesting horror themed décor. We walked home through the lively Temple Bar area.
In the evening we boarded our tour coach for one last drive to a village just outside of Dublin called Howth where we had a last supper with at Abbey Tavern https://www.abbeytavern.ie/ apparently housed in part of the original site of St Mary’s Abbey founded in the 11th century. There we had another good Irish meal and watched an evening of not only music but traditional Irish Riverdance-style dancing.