Had this trip been undertaken prior to the Good Friday Agreement (or Belfast Agreement) of 10 April 1998, the Northern Ireland leg of the trip would have been skipped for fear of being collateral damage to car bombs and other violent sectarian activities. As it was, the two hours spent in Belfast seeing memorials and hearing the history from a person impacted by the Troubles, their term for the tumult, was, emotionally, easily my favorite part of the entire Ireland experience. I only wish it was much longer, like, the entire day longer. Even then I doubt I would have been satiated by the experience...