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Ireland Itinerary
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Tuesday, May 23DUBLINDUBLIN
• Dublin Castle• St. Patrick’s Park• St. Patrick’s Cathedral:
– Jonathan Swift memorial (Gulliver’s Travels)– Turlough O’Carolan memorial (18th century
harpist)– Irish regimental flags
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Dublin: North & South
• Divided by River Liffey
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Dublin Castle
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Dublin Castle
• “The Castle,” “Castle men” appear in Easter Rising (1916) literature and after: A Star Called Henry
• Site of British government military
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St. Patrick’s Cathedral
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Wednesday, May 24
• Trinity College Old Library– Book of Kells– Brian Boru’s harp
• Kilmainham Gaol
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Trinity College
• Book of Kells
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Trinity College
• “Brian Boru’s” harp• Boru: 10th century
High King; drove Vikings from Ireland ‘ 1014 Battle of Clontarf
• Harp is actually 15th
century
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Kilmainham Gaol
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Kilmainham Gaol
• Imprisonment and execution of Easter Rising revolutionaries (Yeats, “Easter 1916”; A Star Called Henry; [film] Michael Collins)
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Free Afternoon
• Glasnevin Cemetery & Botanical Gardens – Kevin Barry– Eamon de Valera– Harry Boland– Brendan Behan– Countess Markiewicz– Maud Gonne– Gerard Manly Hopkins– Charles Stewart Parnell (“Ivy Day in the Committee
Room”: The Uncrowned King of Ireland)
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Free Afternoon
• Phoenix Park & Dublin Zoo • Dublinia (Viking exhibit / “experience”)• Natural History Museum (the Irish Elk)• National Gallery of Ireland (Jack Yeats
paintings)• National Museum of Ireland (Viking gold;
flag from 1916 Easter Rising)• Walking tours
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Wednesday, May 25
• Walking Tour– Children of Lir statue, Garden of Remembrance– Writer’s Museum– Statue of James Joyce– GPO (Easter Rising)– St. Stephen’s Green– Canal (Patrick Kavanagh’s “Canal Bank Walk,”
Dubliners)– Merrion Square (Oscar Wilde)– National Library (W. B. Yeats exhibition)
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Evening Options• 'One Fine Day‘ (May 25)
(Shaw Room), National Gallery of IrelandThis song cycle interpretation, which is based on the shorter poems of Samuel Beckett, will include The Snotgreen Sea and Waves, composed by Michael Holohan and musical settings of the shorter poems of Samuel Beckett with readings of poetry by Barry McGovern. In association with Poetry Ireland.
• Plays at the Gaity, Peacock, Gate (Waiting for Godot)
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TARA, BELFASTTARA, BELFAST
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Thursday, May 26TARA, BELFASTTARA, BELFAST
• Tara, legendary home of Irish kings– Thomas Moore’s song “The harp that once through
Tara’s Halls”• Mount Stewart House
– Home of the (Protestant) Londonderry family since 18th century
– Viscount Castlereagh instrumental in “Act of Union” (1800) that merged Ireland and GB
– Beginning of anti-Catholic Penal Laws– Big House
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Mount Stewart House
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Belfast Options• Linen Hall Library• “The Entries,” series of lanes with little cafes• Botanic Gardens• Belfast Castle• Ulster Folk and Transport Museum• Belfast Zoo• St. Anne’s Cathedral• Queen’s University (Heaney Library, Heaney Poetry
Centre)• “Black Taxi” tour of Falls Road, other sites of Troubles
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Saturday, May 27BELLAGHY BAWNBELLAGHY BAWN
• Seamus Heaney birthplace– Bawn: “Cattle Fort”
from Ba (cow) and Dhun (fort)
– 17th century (reconstructed)
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Belfast Options
• 1:00 Lord Mayor’s Carnival (parade)• Lagan Boat Company “Titanic” tours
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Sunday, May 28ENNISKILLEN, SLIGOENNISKILLEN, SLIGO
• Enniskillen (“Island of Kathleen”)• Yeats associations
– Glencar Lough (“The Stolen Child”)– Drumcliff (Yeats grave)– Innisfree (“The Lake Isle”)
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ENNISKILLEN, SLIGOENNISKILLEN, SLIGO
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Enniskillen
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Drumcliff“Under Ben Bulben”
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Monday, May 29CarrowmoreCarrowmore
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Monday, May 29GALWAYGALWAY
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GALWAYGALWAY
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Tuesday, May 30AranAran IslandsIslands
• Synge, McDonagh (The Cripple of Inishman),Molly Ivors (“The Dead”)
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AranAran IslandsIslands
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Wednesday, May 30LIMERICK & CORKLIMERICK & CORK
• Coole Park (Lady Gregory)– Autograph Tree (carved names of Yeats,
George Bernard Shaw, John Millington Synge)
– “The Wild Swans at Coole”• Thoor Balylee (Yeats)• Walking tour: Angela’s Ashes
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LIMERICK & CORKLIMERICK & CORK
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Autograph Tree
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Thursday, June 1
• Blarney Castle (kiss the stone for eloquence)
• Cobh Island (Titanic, Lusitania)• Rock of Cashel (4th century site; Brian
Boru crowned king there in 10th century; St. Patrick made it bishopric)
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