It has been four days since my last update . I have had to face one hard thing will being on the road this week . I received an email from my old Prof at NAIT that one of my classmates had passed away in car crash ! she was only 25 and at the height of her life . My heart goes out to Alyssa Mullens family she was suppose to fly to Mexico that weekend to be married . i felt really bad for a few days i just started to feel normal again . i was not close to her but her death really hit me . she was a kind and caring person that should not have been taken at such a young age of 25 .
right so now on to the stuff Ive been up to . i came into my room to find i had a fellow canuck. she was from NB . i have never talked with a Nb person for a long while. we got to know each other and had decided since i was taking the day off from jobs because i was still upset from the news i had received the night before ! we decided to head over to the Kilmainham Gaol for a visit. i have been there five years ago and really enjoyed it so i thought why not . we only paid two euro to get into the jail and got a great talk on it for one hour . i have pulled some info off wikipedia.com. for information sake . you can read below if you want . there was one story that touched me so much so i well post it below as well it is about grace Gifford . she was in love with Joseph plunkette . he was to be executed so four hours before his execution they were married . I'm posting the rest of the story below . so that you can read about it there .
This weekend is also the beginning of Trad fest in temple bar area. i have been out to the pubs for really great free music in the last few nights . i was out the other night for the pipe band which was really neat to see i loved hearing it . they walk up and down the street in Temple bar and play in the Square for about 25 Min's then march off. it was neat to follow them up and down the road and snap pictures like a mad paparazzo crazed fan lol !
today i took a good friends advice and went to a Church to think about Alyssa for one last time before i go to Galloway . I found Christchurch Cathedral after much walking . I paid the four euro to get in i lied saying i was a student and he let me in i don't think i should have to pay to sit in a church to think on a dead friend . so i was walking around and found a place in the lady chapel of all places to have a prayer read for her at Sundays service and light a candle in her memory . it was a nice thing for me to do since I'm so far away an could not attend her wake in Edmonton ab .
here are few photos for you all to see one is of the jail . two is of the candle i lit in Alyssa's memory and the rest are just randoms that i thought you may enjoy . I'm also posting the link to Alyssa's obit and news story about her death if you are interested in reading about it .
story about her
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/Entertainment/Woman+killed+crash+days+before+wedding/1213968/story.html
obit
http://www.legacy.com/CAN-EDMONTON/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonID=123295060
Kilmainham Gaol(Irish: Príosún Chill Mhaighneann) is a former prison, located in Kilmainham in Dublin, which is now a museum. It has been run since the mid-1980s by the Office of Public Works (O.P.W.), an Irish Government agency.
Kilmainham Gaol has played an important part in Irish history, as many leaders of Irish rebellions were imprisoned and some executed in the jail. The jail has also been used as a set for several films.
When it was first built in 1796, Kilmainham Gaol was called the 'New Gaol' to distinguish it from the old jail it was intended to replace - a noisome dungeon, just a few hundred metres from the present site. It was officially called the County of Dublin Gaol, and was originally run by the Grand Jury for County Dublin. Over the 140 years it served as a prison, its cells held many of the most famous people involved in the campaign for Irish independence. The leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising were held and executed here. read more here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilmainham_Gaol
Grace Gifords story can be found here
race’s growing interest in the Roman Catholic religion led to the deepening of her acquaintance with Joseph Plunkett. She began to question him about his faith – a subject on which she could not have found a better teacher. He proposed to her in 1915; Grace accepted and decided to take instruction in the Catholic religion. She was formally received into the Catholic Church in April, 1916. Having no knowledge of the plans for the Easter Rising, she planned to marry Joseph on Easter Sunday of that year in University Chapel on St Stephen's Green, in a double wedding with his sister and her fiancé.
After the Rising, the leaders were condemned to death by firing squad. When Grace knew that Joseph was due to be shot on 4 May, she bought a wedding ring in a jeweller’s shop in Dublin city centre. She and Joseph were married on the night of 3 May in the chapel of Kilmainham Jail, only a few hours before he was executed.
There is a rumour that she was pregnant at the time she got married, but later had a miscarriage. However this rumour appears to originate from her sister-in-law Geraldine, who disliked her, was denied by Seoirse Plunkett, and is widely regarded as unsubstantiated.
read more here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Gifford
