On the first day of the tour in Ireland, we toured the statue-lined O'Connell Street, elegant Gorgian square and St. Patricks' Cathedral, and the trinity College Library, famous for 1,200 year-old Book of Kells and the magnificent old library. We saw the Supreme Court house with statues on top, and Tidal River (Lithe River). The Shannon River is the most famous. "Dublin was originally a Viking settlement (urban) and is only 1015 years old. The original Celtic people lived in the rural areas and were governed by Brien Law (British). This territory was covered with ice till the late ice age about 20,000 years before Christ. The hunter (gathering types) started here and were called the Celts, then farmers when civilization began. Guinness (black stuff) is brewed here."11