Tom and Jerry

When you dig into Irish history you find mostly blood, death, starvation, and general misery. All that suffering must have shaped their light-hearted live-for-today attitudes. Irish monuments and epitaphs are more likely to crack a joke than say something pompous. They're usually tongue-in-cheek, so you have to understand the context, but make a point of reading them and you'll see what I mean.

I ran across this display in Christ Church Cathedral. Where else but Ireland will you find a dead cat and rat displayed on a cathedral wall?